Background Staging vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) might be useful for sample selection in clinical trials and for guiding clinical decision-making. Clinical dementia rating (CDR) has been applied for staging cognitive impairments of different etiologies, but it may underestimate severity of non-Alzheimer's disease cognitive deficits. Methods Out of a total of 147 elderly subjects, 23 (me...

This paper is a continuation of a series of publications dealing with the protection of metals by volatile corrosion inhibitors (VCIs). It presents a review on the propagation of VCI vapors, VCI distribution in the volume being protected, and specifics of vapor-phase protection of isolated systems and systems interacting with the environment in various ways. The review is supplemented by the au...

10 n asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks, multiplexing and switching are performed on 53-byte cells which are transported across the network on virtual channel connections (VCCs) [1]. A virtual path connection (VPC) is a labeled path which can be used to transport, process, and manage a bundle of VCCs. Two levels of cell forwarding are defined: virtual path (VP) and virtual channel (VC), ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This review considers the current state of knowledge of genetic factors underlying vascular cognitive impairment (VCI). SUMMARY OF REVIEW We argue here that genes conferring susceptibility to VCI must be of 2 nonmutually exclusive classes: (1) genes that confer susceptibility to cerebrovascular disease, and (2) genes that determine brain tissue responses to cerebrovascu...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The construct of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) includes many whose care is or will be costly. Nevertheless, estimates of these costs are not well described. We therefore set out to estimate the societal costs of VCI in elderly people. METHODS In a secondary analysis of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging, a representative cohort study, Canadian dollar costs usi...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The goal of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Changsha version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-CS) in ischemic cerebrovascular disease patients of Hunan Province, China, and to explore the optimal cutoff score for detecting vascular cognitive impairment-no dementia (VCI-ND) and vascular dementia (VD). METHODS Three hundred and thirty-eigh...

Remote sensing is used for monitoring the impacts of meteorological drought on ecosystems, but few large-scale comparisons of the response timescale to drought of different vegetation remote sensing products are available. We correlated vegetation health products derived from polar-orbiting radiometer observations with a meteorological drought indicator available at different aggregation timesc...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the reproducibility of a new technique for 3-dimensional (3D) pelvic floor sonography: OmniView combined with Volume Contrast Imaging (VCI; GE Healthcare, Kretz Ultrasound, Zipf, Austria) for pelvic hiatal area measurement. In addition, we aimed to study the intermethod agreement between the new technique and the standard 3D rendering method. ...

Recent clinical data indicates that hemodynamic changes caused by cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, heart failure, and hypertension affect cognition. Yet, the underlying mechanisms of the resulting vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) are poorly understood. One reason for the lack of mechanistic insights in VCI is that research in dementia primarily focused on Alzheimer's disease ...