BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the impact of the new GMS contract on referral patterns to a secondary care diabetes clinic. All new patient referrals received from primary care to a hospital diabetes service were surveyed. No significant change in referrals was seen 6 months after implementation of the GMS contract. There was, however, an increase in referrals for poor glycae...

Full-duplex (FD) wireless is an attractive communication paradigm with high potential for improving network capacity and reducing delay in wireless networks. Despite significant progress on the physical layer development, the challenges associated with developing medium access control (MAC) protocols for heterogeneous networks composed of both legacy half-duplex (HD) and emerging FD devices hav...

A new relevance feedback (RF) approach for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is presented, which uses Gaussian mixture (GM) models as image representations. The GM of each image is obtained as an adaptation of a universal GM which models the probability distribution of the features of the image database. In each RF round, the positive and negative examples provided by the user until the curr...

BACKGROUND Higher serum levels of at least one of a panel of four α-glucose IgM antibodies (gMS-Classifier1) in clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) patients are associated with imminent early relapse within 2 years. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the prognostic value of gMS-Classifier1 in a large study cohort of CIS patients. METHODS The BEtaseron(®) in Newly Emerging...

This paper introduces a hybrid scheme for simulating rigid bodies in contact. W e use (cm adaptive strategy for handling two different contact situations, 'bouncing' and 'steady'. To handle contact f o r rigid bodies, we use two impulse-based methods to explicitiy or implicitly compute impulses due to collision impact. These two methods are used so that different impulse methods are applied ada...

PURPOSE To investigate the dosimetric characteristics of the new GMS BT-125-1 125 I radioactive seed, including dose rate constant, radial dose functions, and anisotropy functions. METHODS Dosimetric parameters of GMS BT-125-1 125 I seed including dose rate constant, radial dose functions, and anisotropy functions were calculated using the Monte Carlo code of MCNP5, and measured with thermolu...

graphene microsheets with dimensional control” Carbon 68 (2013) 167-174 DOI 1 High yield synthesis of single-layer graphene microsheets with dimensional control Zhongxin Chen, Ting Huang, Bo Cheng Jin, Jiantong Hu, Hongbin Lu, Steven Nutt 1. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, and Department of Macromolecular Science, Fu...

PURPOSE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of Gold Micro Shunt (GMS) implantation to the supraciliary space in patients with glaucoma. METHODS A total of 38 patients with glaucoma with uncontrolled intraocular pressure (IOP) underwent implantation of the GMS in this prospective 2-center study. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Intraocular pressure and surgical complications. RESULTS A total of 38 pa...

Genic male sterility (GMS) has already been extensively utilized for hybrid rapeseed production. TE5A is a novel thermo-sensitive dominant GMS line in Brassica napus, however, its mechanisms of GMS remain largely unclear. Histological and Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analyses of anthers showed that the male gamete development of TE5A was arrested at meiosis prophase I. EdU uptake of S...

Agglutinates of native chicken erythrocytes caused by influenza virus A/Aichi/2/68 (H3Nz) at 4 OC were potently fused and lysed at low pH (optimum pH 5.3) at 37 O C . Exogenous gangliosides GMs (Siaa2-3Galj314Glcfll-ceramide) and Gm (GalNAcfll-4(Siaa2-3)Gal#ll-4Glc@l-ceramide) were integrated into the membranes of chicken asialoerythrocytes within 5min incubation at 37 O C . We found that the...