The liver is vulnerable to alcohol-related injury because it is the primary site of alcohol metabolism. Additionally, a number of potentially dangerous by-products are generated as alcohol is broken down in the liver. However, dietary supplements may prevent or relieve some of alcohol's deleterious effects. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the prophylactic effect of aqueous extra...

Organizations invest in information technology (IT) looking for positive results that can only be produced if the technology is effectively used by individuals. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) applies a simple and quantitative model to predict intention of use, but it has difficulties to keep its explanatory power when analyzing implementation in mandatory settings (which are usual in bus...

The American Society of Transplantation (AST) and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) appreciate the opportunity to comment on the use of pre-transplant red blood cell transfusion on renal allograft outcomes. The AST is the largest organization of transplant professionals, representing over 3200, physicians, surgeons, scientists, histocompatibility technologists, and transplant c...

This paper proposes an alternate structure for C++ compilers. Type analysis is removed from the compiler and replaced with a type system library which is treated as source code by the compiler. Type computations are embedded in the intermediate language of the compiler, and partial evaluation is used to drive type analysis and template in-stantiation. By making simple changes to the behavior of...

Of 104 genotypically diverse methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates tested with the MicroScan WalkAway (Pos MIC 24 panel) and Vitek 2 (AST-P549 card) systems, 7 and 6 isolates, respectively, showed an oxacillin MIC of < or =2mg/liter. Most of these MRSA isolates were community acquired. However, if the cefoxitin screen of AST-P549 was also considered, MRSA detection failed ...

The major issue in selecting patients for transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) lies in determining the optimal number of TACE sessions that may benefit patients before switching to other therapies. This is often a subjective decision not based on any standardized protocol. The ART (Assessment for Retreatment with Transarterial chemoembolization) score was recently developed to determine patie...

AIM Locoregional treatment [including percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) therapy and transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE)] provides an alternative treatment for early-diagnosed hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the long-term survival of patients after locoregional treatments remains unclear. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 108 patients with small HCC not indicated for surg...