5 Demeo DL, Campbell EJ, Barker AF, et al. IL10 polymorphisms are associated with airflow obstruction in severe alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency. We read with interest the article ''Paediatrics in Berlin'' [1] in a recent issue of the European Respiratory Journal, which sum-marised the paediatric topics of the European Respiratory Society's Annual Congress in Berlin. In this article, inert gas mul...

BACKGROUND Blue laser imaging (BLI) and linked color imaging (LCI) are the color enhancement features of the LASEREO endoscopic system, which provide a narrow band light observation function and expansion and reduction of the color information, respectively. METHODS We examined 82 patients with early gastric cancer (EGC) diagnosed between April 2014 and August 2015. Five expert and 5 non-expe...

BACKGROUND Multiple breath washout (MBW) became a valuable research tool assessing ventilation heterogeneity. However, routine clinical application still faces several challenges. Deriving MBW parameters from three technically acceptable measurements according to current recommendations prolongs test times. We therefore aimed to evaluate reporting only duplicate measurements in healthy adults a...

BACKGROUND For reliable assessment of ventilation inhomogeneity, multiple-breath washout (MBW) systems should be realistically validated. We describe a new lung model for in vitro validation under physiological conditions and the assessment of a new nitrogen (N(2))MBW system. METHODS The N(2)MBW setup indirectly measures the N(2) fraction (F(N2)) from main-stream carbon dioxide (CO(2)) and si...

Ascertaining the relationships between sediment transport processes and vegetation cover is essential for watershed soil and water conservation. However, it is not easy to realize this target on a large scale. In this study, the location-weighted landscape contrast index (LCI) based on the “source-sink” theory of ecological processes was introduced to unravel the response of sediment yield to v...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this systematic review was to assess incidence rates of laboratory-confirmed influenza (LCI) outcomes among infants under 6 months of age. DESIGN Systematic literature search and review of indexed studies in PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library and CINAHL Plus from inception to 19 April 2017. SETTING Population-based estimates from community or hospital settings. PAR...

The aim of this study was to perform a Rasch analysis on the 5-level ordinal scale version of the Locomotor Capabilities Index (LCI-5), in order to investigate rating scale quality and conduct reliability and validity assessments. A questionnaire was mailed to 144 subjects who had undergone lower limb amputation (LLA) in the previous five years and completed a rehabilitation and prosthetic trai...

The lung clearance index (LCI) measured by the multiple breath washout (MBW) test is sensitive to early disease in children with cystic fibrosis. While LCI worsens during preschool years fibrosis, there limited evidence clarify whether this continues school age years, and trajectory of progression as modifiable. A cohort (healthy fibrosis) previously studied for 12 months preschoolers were foll...

XU, JIAN. AC Coupled Interconnect for Inter-chip Communications. (Under the direction of Prof. Paul D. Franzon.) The scaling of integrated circuit (IC) technology demands high-speed, high-density and low-power input/output (I/O) for inter-chip communications. As an alternative scheme for conductive interconnects, AC coupled interconnect (ACCI) was proposed previously to meet these increasing I/...

We investigated the nutritional condition of larval fishes caught in daily ichthyoplankton hauls in the ‘Helgoland Roads’ (54° 11.18’ N and 07° 54.00’ E) from February to June 2004. We concentrated on larvae of dab Limanda limanda and lesser sandeel Ammodytes marinus in order to compare early life stages of iteroparous and nearly semelparous fish. We analysed length, weight and RNA:DNA ratios a...