Received 28 September 2015; Accepted 8 October 2015; Published 6 November 2015 Copyright: – 2015 Zirulnik JL and Perez HM; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction...

BACKGROUND In athletic individuals, a secure diagnosis of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) is dependent on objective testing. Indirect bronchoprovocation testing is often used in this context and eucapnic voluntary hyperpnea (EVH) testing is recommended for this purpose, yet the short-term reproducibility of EVH is yet to be appropriately established. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study...

The present study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Korean version of the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children (TSCYC) including reliability and validity. The TSCYC is an instrument to identify trauma symptoms in children from age 3 to 12 yr by their caretakers. The Korean version of the TSCYC was administered to the caretakers of a normative group of 299 children (137...

Data from a case-control study of lung cancer and residential radon exposure conducted in Worcester County, Massachusetts, are presented. Lung cancer risk was estimated using conditional logistic regression models that controlled for demographic, smoking, and occupational exposure covariates. Preliminary exploratory analyses using lowess smoothing revealed a non-linear association between expos...

The value of various indexes to characterize the stimulus-response curve of human motor nerves was assessed in 40 healthy subjects recruited from four European centers of investigation (Créteil, Lausanne, Liège, Marseille). Stimulus-response curves were established by stimulating the right median and ulnar motor nerves at the wrist, with stimulus durations of 0.05 and 0.5 ms. The following para...

The diversity of applications, hardware platforms and needs for features, e.g. in terms of performance and security, necessitate the continual development of either customized operating systems (OSs) or modifications of existing ones. This is daunting from the efforts for continual re-design and integrity assurance of each OS. In order to provide high-integrity, robust by-design and adaptable O...

PURPOSE To describe different patterns of blinking in patients undergoing a visual field test and to establish whether the blink parameters are related to threshold variability. METHODS Thirty-nine patients with diagnosed or suspected glaucoma were recruited to undertake a perimetric task twice. Blinks were detected with a video eye-tracker system that records at a sampling rate of 60 Hz. Bli...

Erratum Following publication of the original article [1] the authors contacted the team with the request that some additional information be added to the article. Please see below for details: Additional Table: absolute variability Variability (VAR) presented in the main article represents mean variability between test and retest, not absolute variability as stated. The authors would like to a...

(2) hn divides hm whenever n divides m. They have attracted number theoretical and combinatorial interest as some of the simplest nonlinear recurrence sequences (see [3] for references), but for us their interest lives in the underlying geometry: Ward demonstrates that an elliptic divisibility sequence arises from any choice of elliptic curve over Q and rational point on that curve. Theorem 1 (...