Multiple-aperture SAR interferometry (MAI) has demonstrated outstanding measurement accuracy of along-track displacement when compared to pixel-offsettracking methods; however, measuring slow-moving (cm/year) surface displacement remains a challenge. Stacking of multi-temporal observations is a potential approach to reducing noise and increasing measurement accuracy, but it is difficult to achi...

The cheese microbial ecosystem is complex, and the presence of non-starter adventitious microorganisms in milk may have an influence on the organoleptic characteristics of cheese. The aim of this study was to analyze the composition and diversity of the fungal flora of raw milk destined for cheesemaking from 19 dairy farms in Quebec and to monitor their evolution throughout ripening. Six hundre...

The present study was conducted to determine the association between fibre intake and insulin resistance in 264 women using a cross-sectional design. Insulin resistance was indexed using homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) (US formula: fasting insulin (μU/ml) × fasting glucose (mg/dl)/405 international formula: fasting glucose (mmol/l) × fasting insulin (μU/l)/22.5). Fi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Washout thyroglobulin provides evidence for metastatic or recurrent lesions, However, the cutoff value is still controversial. We investigated an optimized cutoff value and indication for the use of washout thyroglobulin from fine-needle aspiration in neck lymph nodes from preoperative or postoperative patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancers. MATERIALS AND MET...

PURPOSE To determine the effects of activated monocytes on the induction of human retinal pigment epithelial (HRPE) cell reactive oxygen metabolite (ROM) production and apoptosis. METHODS HRPE cells were co-cultured with interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma)-stimulated human monocytes. HRPE apoptosis was detected by propidium iodide, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and TdT-mediated dUTP nick...

This contribution – a continuation of the work in refs.[1]-[4] – reports on recent developments in the calculation and understanding of 4-quark energies generated using lattice Monte Carlo techniques. In refs.[3,4] – the binding energies of four quarks in various geometries (e.g. at the corners of a rectangle or on a straight line) were calculated in static-quenched-SU(2) on a lattice 16 3 × 32...

BACKGROUND Mortality remains unacceptably high among patients hospitalized for acute stroke. Additional knowledge about factors that contribute to mortality after stroke is important for instituting therapies to lower mortality. We sought to determine the factors that predict mortality in patients hospitalized for acute stroke. METHODS In all, 1477 consecutively admitted patients with acute s...

Intervention studies have demonstrated that saturated fat increases total and LDL-cholesterol concentrations, and it is therefore recommended that the intake of high-fat dairy products be limited. However, observational studies have found an inverse relationship between the intake of dairy products and incidence of CVD. We aimed to study whether the Ca content of dairy products influences the e...