OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of demographic variables in the relationship between the presence of HAM/TSP and current major depression. METHODS It is a cross-sectional study of 108 HTLV-1 infected patients (47 with TSP/HAM) resident of Salvador, Brazil. The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview, Brazilian Version 5 was used to evaluate the presence of depression. Prevalence ratio...

T-wave alternans (TWA) in surface electrocardiograph (ECG) signals has been recognized as a marker of cardiac electrical instability and is hypothesized to be associated with increased risk for ventricular arrhythmias among patients. A novel time-domain TWA hybrid analysis method (HAM) utilizing the correlation method and least squares regression technique is described in this paper. Simulated ...

Human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is one outcome of infection with HTLV-I. A population association study of 229 patients with HAM/TSP and 202 healthy carriers of HTLV-I in southern Japan showed that this outcome of HTLV-I infection and the HTLV-I provirus load are under polygenic control. Of 58 polymorphic sites studied in 3...

Testing content-based anti-spam systems requires a plentiful source of both spam and ham. We examine the viability of Usenet postings as a ham source. While Usenet postings have been used before for this purpose, we refine the idea and show empirically that it is the text of Usenet replies that provides the best cut of ham.

human t-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (htlv-1) is associated with adult t-cell leukemia/lymphoma (atl) and htlv-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (ham/tsp). only a limited percentage of infected individuals develop disease in response to the virus while the majority remain asymptomatic and ham/tsp is the most common clinical manifestation of the virus. ham/tsp is an inflamma...

BACKGROUND High-amylose maize resistant starch type 2 (HAM-RS2) stimulates gut-derived satiety peptides and reduces adiposity in animals. Human studies have not supported these findings despite improvements in glucose homeostasis and insulin sensitivity after HAM-RS2 intake which can lower adiposity-related disease risk. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of HAM-RS2 ...

one of the ecient and powerful schemes to solve linear and nonlinear equationsis homotopy analysis method (ham). in this work, we obtain the approximate solution ofa system of partial dierential equations (pdes) by means of ham. for this purpose, wedevelop the concept of ham for a system of pdes as a matrix form. then, we prove theconvergence theorem and apply the proposed method to nd the a...

Catlin et al. [1, Corollary 9A] characterised the graphs G with the property that ham(G) > rad(G) + 1 where ham(G) and rad(G) stand for the hamiltonian index and the radius of G, respectively. Here a slightly stronger result is presented. In effect, the graphs for which ham(G) > rad(G) holds are characterised in a similar way.

BACKGROUND Although a score of less than 7 for the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D17) has been widely adopted to define remission of depression, a full recovery from depression is closely related to the patient's quality of life as well. Accordingly, we re-evaluated this definition of remission using HAM-D17 in comparison with the corresponding score for health-related quality o...

HTLV-1 infection is associated with several inflammatory disorders, including the neurodegenerative condition HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). It is unclear why a minority of infected subjects develops HAM/TSP. CD4⁺ T cells are the main target of infection and play a pivotal role in regulating immunity to HTLV and are hypothesized to participate in the pathog...