BACKGROUND Despite the growing interest in assessing the quality of care for depression, there is little evidence to support measurement of the quality of primary care for depression. This study identified evidence-based quality indicators for monitoring, evaluating and improving the quality of care for depression in primary care settings. METHODS Ovid MEDLINE and Ovid PsycINFO databases, and...

The basic properties of the near-Earth current sheet from 8 RE to 12 RE were determined based on Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) observations from 2007 to 2013. Ampere's law was used to estimate the current density when the locations of two spacecraft were suitable for the calculation. A total of 3838 current density observations were obtained to stu...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Sessile serrated adenoma/polyps (SSA/Ps) are considered precursors of colorectal cancers with microsatellite instability. However, it is still difficult to differentiate SSA/Ps from hyperplastic polyps endoscopically; therefore, the prevalence of SSA/Ps remains uncertain in clinical practice. This study aimed to clarify the proportion of SSA/Ps in endoscopically diagno...

Alternaria blotch disease of apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.), caused by the apple pathotype of Alternaria alternata, is one of the most serious fungal diseases to affect apples. To develop an understanding of how apples respond to A. alternata apple pathotype (AAAP) infection, we examined the host transcript accumulation over the period between 0 and 72 h post AAAP inoculation. Large-scale gen...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.12.072 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +82 2 3408 3838. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J.(K.-J. Kim). Traffic sign detection is a useful application for driving assistance systems, and it is necessary to accurately detect traffic signs before they can be identified. Sometimes, however, it is diff...

BACKGROUND Concerns have been raised that the 2013 atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk estimator overpredicts risk in contemporary cohorts. Whether suboptimal calibration will lead to overtreatment with statins is unknown. We investigated the numbers of people eligible for statin treatment in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort, based on the 2013 cholesterol guidelines, ...

The singlet excited states and doublet ionized/electron-attached states of o-benzoquinone (o-BQ) were studied by the symmetry adapted cluster (SAC)/SAC-configuration interaction (SAC-CI) method, and the corresponding spectral bands were assigned. The calculated transition energies reasonably reproduced the experimental spectra with the mean error of about 0.2 eV, except for the 1 1A1 states, wh...

INTRODUCTION When darunavir (DRV) 800 mg is boosted with 150 mg cobicistat (DRVcobi ), DRV trough concentration (Ctrough ) is about 30% lower as compared to 100 mg ritonavir (DRVrtv ). DRVcobi shows similar virological efficacy as DRVrtv when combined with two nucleos(t)ide analogue reverse-transcriptase inhibitors, but it is unknown whether a lower DRV Ctrough would undermine the effectiveness...

Our objective was to determine if annatto color or bleaching had any influence on ultrafiltration (UF) flux during production of 80% whey protein concentrate (WPC) or 80% serum protein concentrate (SPC). Cheddar cheese whey (18 vats using 900 kg of whole milk each) and microfiltration (MF) permeate of skim milk (18 processing runs using 1000 kg of skim milk each) were produced. The 18 runs were...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether children in households involved in a participatory agriculture and nutrition intervention had improved growth compared to children in matched comparable households and whether the level of involvement and length of time in the project had an effect on child growth. DESIGN A prospective quasi-experimental study comparing baseline and follow-up data in 'interven...