International Large Detector (ILD) adopts Particle Flow Algorithm (PFA) for precise measurement of multiple jets. The electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) of ILD has two candidates sensor technologies for PFA, which are pixelized silicon sensors and scintillator-strips with silicon photomultipliers. Pixelized silicon sensors have higher granularity for PFA, however they have an issue of cost redu...

Both petnphigus vulgaris antigen (PVA; Dsg3) and petnphigus foliaceus antigen (PFA; Dsgl) are tnembers of the destnoglein subfamily of the cadherin supergene fatnily. Another destnosotnal cadherin, destnocollin, is occasionally recognized by certain petnphigus sera. We present a 38-year-old Japanese tnale who showed clinically and histopathologically typical features of petnphigus vulgaris, who...

There are a variety of operative and non operative modalities that can be used to address patellofemoral pain secondary to arthrosis. Patellofemoral Arthroplasty (PFA) is one of the latest alternatives designed to address the pain caused by severe, isolated osteoarthritis (OA) of the patellofemoral joint (PFJ). in the past, PFA has experienced variable success rates, and as a result many surgeo...

We use topological consequences of {\sf PFA}, MA$_{\omega_1}$(S)[S]} and PFA(S)[S]} proved by other authors to show that normal first countable linearly H-closed spaces with various additional properties are compact in these models.

The Pfa&an of an oriented graph is closely linked to perfect matching. It is also naturally related to the determinant of an appropriately de0ned matrix. This relation between Pfa&an and determinant is usually exploited to give a fast algorithm for computing Pfa&ans. We present the 0rst NC algorithm for computing the Pfa&an. (Previous determinant-based methods computed it in NC only up to the c...

BACKGROUND An association has been reported between CYP2C19 polymorphism and the altered antiplatelet activity of clopidogrel. We investigated this association using the newly introduced platelet function analyzer (PFA)-200 (INNOVANCE PFA-200 System; Siemens Healthcare, Germany) P2Y test. METHODS Polymorphisms of CYP2C19*2, *3, *17 and the degree of inhibition of platelet function were determ...

The PFA-100 is an in vitro system for measurement of platelet function in whole blood. To establish reference intervals in the Korean population, we investigated the relationships between PFA-100 closure times and gender, ABO blood group, citrate concentration, and time of blood collection in 120 well-characterized healthy Korean adults. Gender did not affect closure time values. Blood group O ...

PURPOSE The pattern of symptoms of knee osteoarthritis has been thought to be indicative of specific compartment involvement. This study investigated whether there was a true correlation between patellofemoral joint (PFJ) symptoms and unicompartmental patellofemoral arthritis. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective analysis of 34 patients rendered to be suffering from PFJ osteoarthritis and subs...

PURPOSE To examine treatment decisions by ophthalmologists versus reading center fluid identification from optical coherence tomography in Comparison of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treatments Trials (CATT). METHODS Fluid in 6,210 optical coherence tomography scans (598 patients) in "as needed treatment" arm of CATT Year 1 was compared with ophthalmologist's treatment: positive fluid agre...

Several methods are available for computing the location of the point of force application (PFA) in manual wheelchair propulsion using kinetic data. We compared five different techniques for computing the PFA location in analysis of data from five wheelchair users propelling their own wheelchairs using their normal propulsion style. The effects of the assumptions used in the calculations on the...