OBJECTIVE To examine the association between key susceptibility factors and measures of chronic kidney disease in Asian American and Native Hawaiian participants enrolled in the Hawai'i site of the national Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP-2) study community screening program. DESIGN In 2001-2003, 793 participants from five ethnic groups (Japanese, Native Hawaii an, Chinese, Filipino and...

We generate bolometric light curves for a variety of type Ia supernova models at late times, simulating gamma-ray and positron transport for various assumptions about the magnetic field and ionization of the ejecta. These calculated light curve shapes are compared with light curves of specific supernovae for which there have been adequate late observations. From these comparisons we draw two co...

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a major infectious disease in livestock. The common clinical signs in cattle include epidermal vesicles that are majorly distributed around oronasal cavity, feet and teats. The aim of this report is to document an uncommon clinical form of the disease which comprises the occurrence of classic vesicular lesion in a rarely observed location of the horn vegetative t...

The catalytic oxidation of CO is of great practical importance and is e.g. used in commercial 3-way catalysts reducing automotive emissions. Depending on the reaction conditions different oxide species, e.g. chemisorbed oxygen, surface oxides or bulk oxide may be present on the surface. Despite several previous studies there are still open questions concerning the exact surface composition (whi...

We report a technique to simultaneously determine the local activation magnetic moment with a spatial resolution of a submicrometer scale. The local activation magnetic moment is determined from the magnetic-field dependence of the magnetization reversal at the corresponding region observed by a magneto-optical microscope system. The present method has been applied to measure the activation mag...

The spin reversal of nanostructured Co/Pd multilayers by varying the number of repeats has been investigated quantitatively. The magnetization viscosity measurement and the direct observation of the time-dependent spin reversal patterns showed that their reversal behavior gradually changed from wall-motion dominant to nucleation dominant by increasing the number of repeats. Both the wall-motion...

Background: Patients who undergo major orthopedic surgery are at risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) due to blood loss, electrolyte disorders, infection, and the presence of other co-morbidities. In this study, the frequency and risk factors of AKI were investigated. Objective & Methods: This study is a cross-sectional-analytical study with a sample size of 180 people. The studied population wer...

In this paper, we present a structural and statistical approach for texture classification. It can achieve with a higher accuracy rate comparing to the Spatial Gray Level Dependence (SGLD) method and Laws' method. Our method uses the previously proposed operator, the Surface-Shape operator (SS-operator), for describing topographic structure of texture images. The SS-operator describes shape of ...