AIM The aim of this paper was to investigate the value of Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) and thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) risk scores for risk stratification and prognosis in female patients with non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS). METHODS Non-elderly (<65 years) and elderly (≥65 years) female patients with NSTE-ACS (totally 869 cases...

PURPOSE To determine the predictive values of D-dimer assay, Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) and Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) risk scores for adverse outcome in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI). PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 234 patients (mean age: 57.2±11.7 years, 75.2% were males) hospitalized with NSTEMI were included....

P eople have asked me how I decided to participate in the film States of Grace. When we started, I'd been in the hospital for well over a year, and I thought, " Of course this makes sense. " My attitude toward pretty much everything that comes my way in life is to just say " yes " and pick up the pieces. So my attitude was Just say " yes " because you've had an incredible experience—both becaus...

In the last few yearswe havewitnessed a surge of business-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce operated on the Internet. However, most current electronic commerce systems are little more than electronic catalogues that allow a user to purchase a product under predetermined and inflexible terms and conditions. We believe that in the next few years we will see a new generation of electro...

[1] The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission was launched in March 2002 and has an expected 5-year lifetime. One potential application of GRACE measurements of time-variable gravity will be to isolate the postglacial rebound signal, which can then be used to estimate the Earth’s viscosity structure. In this paper we present a sensitivity analysis of simulated GRACE ...

[1] Ocean bottom pressure estimates from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) have been validated by comparisons with an array of in situ bottom pressure measurements. The 600 km by 600 km array comprised 46 bottom pressure sensors that were part of the Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS). Validations in other ocean regions have been limited by available data to pointwise bottom p...

[1] The purpose of this work is to investigate the feasibility of downscaling Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite data for predicting groundwater level changes and, thus, enhancing current capability for sustainable water resources management. In many parts of the world, water management decisions are traditionally informed by in situ observation networks which, unfortunat...

[1] The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) provides quantitative measures of terrestrial water storage (TWS) change. GRACE data show a significant decrease in TWS in the lower (southern) La Plata river basin of South America over the period 2002–2009, consistent with recognized drought conditions in the region. GRACE data reveal a detailed picture of temporal and spatial evolution ...

densely functionalized 3-(4-chlorophenyl)-5-(3-hydroxy-4-etoxyphenyl)-4,5-dihydro-1h-pyrazole-1-carboxamide was  synthesized in an expedient manner through specification and transamidation  respectively, of ester-functionalized pyrazoles. this synthetic protocol allowed for three diversifying steps in which appendages on the pyrazole scaffold were adjusted to optimize inhibition of protein kina...

Multi-objective Ant Colony Optimization (MOACO) algorithms have been successfully applied to several multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems (MCOP) over the past decade. Recently, we proposed a MOACO algorithm named GRACE for the multi-objective shortest path (MSP) problem, confirming the efficiency of such metaheuristic for this MCOP. In this paper, we investigate several extension...