To analyze the cofactors of alcohol-related trauma at a rural, Level II trauma center, 127 admitted trauma patients were interviewed about psychological problems, social factors, and medical histories. Patients were divided into two groups, blood alcohol content (BAC) positive and BAC negative, for analysis. Seventy-one patients (56%) were BAC negative; 56 (44%) were BAC positive. Forty-three o...

The relationship between normal body temperature, end-expired breath temperature, and blood alcohol concentration (BAC)/breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) ratio was studied in 98 subjects (84 men, 14 women). Subjects consumed alcohol sufficient to produce a BrAC of at least 0.06 g/210 L 45-75 min after drinking. Breath samples were analyzed using an Intoxilyzer 8000 specially equipped to measu...

Introduction: The two-user binary adder channel (2-BAC) is one of the simplest models for a multiple access channel [1]. The 2-BAC is a memoryless channel which, at each time interval, accepts two binary inputs, one from each user. Unless stated otherwise, we will assume that the binary alphabet {0, 1} of each user is mapped as 0 → 1 and 1 → −1 to feed the 2-BAC and that in the absence of noise...

We determined if specific tumor types of non-small cell lung cancer can be identified by variance in FDG-PET standard uptake value (SUV) in combination with characteristics on CT. Staging FDG-PET and CT scans of 81 patients (34 men and 47 women, average age 67+/-11 years) with 82 lung cancers were analyzed. Mean tumor SUV was calculated at the location of maximum FDG uptake. Tumor size, margins...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate breast arterial calcification (BAC) detected on routine mammography, analyzing its association with chronic degenerative disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study involving women treated at a specialized outpatient clinic for high-risk hypertension, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease, as well as volunteers who participated...

Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFSTs) are used as qualitative indicators of impairment by alcohol in individuals suspected of DUI. Stuster and Burns authored a report on this testing and presented the SFSTs as being 91% accurate in predicting Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) as lying at or above 0.08%. Their conclusions regarding accuracy are heavily weighted by the large number of subject...

BACKGROUND Human enterovirus 71 (HEV71) is one of the major pathogen responsible for hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). Currently no effective vaccine or antiviral drugs are available. Like poliovirus, EV71 is transmitted mainly by the feco-oral route. To date the majority of the studied EV71 vaccine candidates are administered parenterally. Injectable vaccines induce good systemic immunity b...

The Brown Norway or laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) genome was sequenced in a project jointly supported by the NHGRI and the NHLBI (12). This was the third mammalian project undertaken by the NIH but the first that would only be taken to the draft stage. The project was a complex collaboration led by the BCM-HGSC (BAC skims, wgs, assembly, annotation, overall coordination) and including Cele...