BACKGROUND How different Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) classifications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) predict mortality is unclear. OBJECTIVE To examine the association of spirometric GOLD grades and the new ABCD groups with mortality, and to compare their informativeness in relation to mortality. METHODS We studied 1540 people with post-bron...

BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis is a disabling neurological disease with varied symptoms, including dysarthria and cognitive and linguistic impairments. Association between dysarthria and cognitive-linguistic deficit has not been explored in clinical multiple sclerosis studies. AIMS In patients with chronic progressive multiple sclerosis, the study aimed to investigate the presence and nature o...

For a generalized Hermite sinosiodal / hyperbolic Gaussian beam passing through an ABCD system with a finite aperture, the propagation properties are derived using the Collins integral. The results are obtained in the form of intensity graphs indicating that previously demonstrated rules of reciprocity are applicable, while the existence of the aperture accelerates this transformation. Keywords...

This article uses Self-Determination Theory (SDT) to assess the motivational mechanisms and claims of asset-based community development (ABCD). The limited academic literature argues ABCD’s focus on existing assets locally identified priorities motivates communi-ty participation. However, motivation is only superficially understood remains unquali-fied. SDT an established theory motivation, whi...

12 응급실에서 어지럼증의 대뇌혈관기원을 확인하기 위한ABCD 점수의 유용성 배경과 목적어지럼증은 뇌혈관사건의 전조일 수 있다. ABCD 점수는 일과 성허헐발작과 이와 유사한 질환들을 구분함으로써 일과성허혈 발작 이후 환자들의 뇌졸중 위험도를 예측할 수 있다. 저자들 은 이 점수가 응급실에 어지럼증으로 내원한 환자들에서 얼마 나 뇌혈관사건을 예측할 수 있는지를 평가하였다.

We use the vector wedge product in geometric algebra to show that Poisson commutator brackets measure preservation of phase space areas. We also use the vector dot product to define the Poisson anticommutator bracket that measures the preservation of phase space angles. We apply these brackets to the paraxial meridional complex height-angle ray vectors that transform via a 2×2 matrix, and we sh...

Through the current Assuring Better Child Health and Development learning collaborative (ABCD III), five states (Arkansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Oregon) are supporting healthy child development through care coordination and linkages among primary care providers and other providers of community services for young children and their families. The ABCD III state initiatives have been ...

The pharmacokinetics of lipid-bound and liberated amphotericin B (AMB) was assessed in 11 critically ill patients with cholestatic liver disease (CSLD) and in 9 subjects with normal liver function treated with AMB colloidal dispersion (ABCD). Exposure to lipid-bound AMB was higher in patients with CSLD. Levels of liberated AMB were elevated by CSLD only after the first dose, whereas its pharmac...

Abstract The Artificial Benchmark for Community Detection (ABCD) graph is a recently introduced random model with community structure and power-law distribution both degrees sizes. generates graphs similar properties as the well-known Lancichinetti, Fortunato, Radicchi (LFR) one, its main parameter ξ can be tuned to mimic counterpart in LFR model, mixing μ. In this article, we introduce hypergr...