BACKGROUND The utility of metabolic syndrome (MetS) for predicting mortality among older adults, the highest-risk population, is not well established. In addition, few studies have compared the predictive utility of MetS to that of its individual risk factors. METHODS We evaluated relationships of MetS (as defined by the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel on Detection, Evalua...

BACKGROUND Previous studies of patients after the Fontan operation have reported IQ scores lower than population norms. In the past decade, changes have occurred both in surgical methods used and in the patient population undergoing Fontan palliation. The present study examined the impact of these changes on neurodevelopmental outcomes after Fontan. METHODS AND RESULTS Neuropsychological test...

Ribosome recycling factor (RRF), coded for by the frr locus, is involved in the disassembly of post-termination complexes and recycling of the ribosomes for a fresh round of initiation in bacteria and in eukaryotic organelles. In a cross-species-complementation experiment, it was shown that the Thermus thermophilus RRF protein lacking five amino acids from its C-terminal end (deltaC5TthRRF) but...

We investigate the magnitude and interplay of relativistic and electron correlation effects on the electric field gradient (EFG) at the position of Hg in linear and bent HgL(2) (L = CH(3), Cl, Br, I) and trigonal planar [HgCl(3)](-) compounds using four-component relativistic Dirac-Coulomb (DC) and non-relativistic (NR) calculations at the Hartree-Fock (HF), DFT, MP2 and coupled cluster (CC) le...

In this paper a combined node searching algorithm for simulation of crack discontinuities in meshless methods called combined visibility and surrounding triangles CVT is proposed. The element free Galerkin EFG method is employed for stress analysis of cracked bodies. The proposed node searching algorithm is based on the combination of surrounding triangles and visibility methods; the surroundin...

The buckling behavior of functionally graded carbon nanotube-reinforced composite (FG-CNTRC) plates resting on Winkler-Pasternak elastic foundations under in-plane loads for various temperatures is investigated using element-free Galerkin (EFG) method based on first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT). The modified shear correction factor is used based on energy equivalence principle. Carbon ...

Multiagent decision-making in partially observable environments is usually modelled as either an extensive-form game (EFG) theory or a stochastic (POSG) multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL). One issue with the current situation that while most practical problems can be both formalisms, relationship of two models unclear, which hinders transfer ideas between communities. A second EFGs have r...

This report shows how a string of linear code may be converted into a data ow graph (DFG), then to an event ow graph (EFG), and nally into a temporal speciication (TS).

Chlorine ligands in a variety of diamagnetic transition-metal (TM) complexes in common structural motifs were studied using (35)Cl solid-state NMR (SSNMR), and insight into the origin of the observed (35)Cl NMR parameters was gained through first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The WURST-CPMG pulse sequence and the variable-offset cumulative spectrum (VOCS) methods were...