High grain production of corn (Zea mays L.) can be maintained by adding inorganic N fertilizer, and also by using crop rotations that include alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), but the relative impact of these management practices on soil quality is uncertain. We examined the effects on soil of N fertilization rate (0, 90, 180, 270 kg ha, corn phase only) in four cropping systems: CC, continuous cor...

In this paper we train an L1-regularized linear support vector machine (SVM) to determine whether the sentiment of a movie review is positive or negative. We train and test on the movie review polarity dataset introduced by Pang and Lee, 2004 [2]. Classification accuracy of the linear SVM is improved through a series of experiments for various data preprocessing techniques and data transformati...

Family Planning Perspectives year, while induced and spontaneous abortions among teenagers cost more than $180 million.* Additional resources are required to treat sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), acquired by about three million teenagers annually,5 and for programs such as the Special Supplemental Program for Women, Infants and Children. Most sexually active female adolescents are trying ...

Abstract Background Practice guidelines recommend Sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2-i) for patients with heart failure reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). This study aimed to describe our population of indications Dapagliflozin, compare it the DAPA-HF trial and assess possible prognostic evolution. Methods We retrospectively analysed clinical data first 100 HFrEF treated Dapaglif...

Background: Radiodine therapy (RIT) for hyperthyroidism is increasingly used as a therapy of choice in most of the patients. Effect of multiple factors on the result of therapy was noted. This study tries to analyze the effect of multiple factors on success rate of RIT. Methods and patients: One hundred and sixty four hyperthyroid patients referred for RIT therapy from 1996-99, were studi...

Since the supremum is taken over a bigger set as B increases, C(B) is nondecreasing for B ≥ 0. To prove the concavity, let B1 and B2 be two cost constraints. Suppose that R1 is achievable under B1 and R2 is achievable under B2 i.e. R1 ≤ C(B1) and R2 ≤ C(B2). Let k = ⌊αn⌋, k ′ = n − k and α ∈ [0, 1]. We can construct a code by using a (21 , k) code for the first k transmissions and a (2 ′R2 , k)...

My implementation of the discrete difference approximation, as defined by Equation 1, was completed using Matlab and is included as prob1.m. Note that prob1.m accepts a single input argument kMode which is used to toggle λ = 1/2 or λ = h. Before presenting the results of my program, I will briefly outline the architecture of the source code. On lines 21-55 I select the values of {N, h, k} and d...

This study aimed to determine the aerosolization behavior of a nanodispersion of budesonide, prepared using microfluidic reactors. The size and morphology of budesonide nanoparticles were characterized by photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Processing/formulation parameters for formation of the nanoparticles were studied to determine their effects o...

Introduction: During coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), the role of cardioplegic solution which results in cardiac arrest, is critical. This study was planned to evaluate the clinical impacts of N acetylcysteine (NAC) enriched cold-blood cardioplegia on early reperfusion injury in patients with ischaemic heart disease undergoing CABG Methods: In a...

This study aimed to determine the aerosolization behavior of a nanodispersion of budesonide, prepared using microfluidic reactors. The size and morphology of budesonide nanoparticles were characterized by photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Processing/formulation parameters for formation of the nanoparticles were studied to determine their effects o...