The National Prosthetics Patient Database (NPPD) is the national Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) dataset that records characteristics of individual prosthetic and assistive devices. It remains unknown how well NPPD records can be matched to encounter records for the same individuals in major VA utilization databases. We compared the count of prosthetics records in the NPPD with the count of...

BACKGROUND Differentiation of psoriasis from non-psoriasis psoriasiform dermatitis (NPPD) may be difficult for dermatopathologists, as lack of distinctive histopathological features in a subset of cases may cause confusion in diagnosis. OBJECTIVE As the prototype of psoriasiform dermatitis, psoriasis is a hyperproliferative skin disorder with increased epidermal turnover compared with NPPD, w...

The electrocatalytic activities of nanoporous palladium (npPd) and platinum (npPt) for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) under alkaline conditions and hydrogen peroxide electrochemical reactions under neutral conditions were examined. npPd and npPt were prepared by the electrochemical deposition of each metal from the corresponding metal precursor in the presence of reverse micelles of Triton X-1...

Protein-protein docking (PPD) predictions usually rely on the use of a scoring function to rank docking models generated by exhaustive sampling. To rank good models higher than bad ones, a large number of scoring functions have been developed and evaluated, but the methods used for the computation of PPD predictions remain largely unsatisfactory. Here, we report a network-based PPD scoring func...

Undil now, national comprehensive databases containing patient-specific information on the disabled population's use of prosthetic, orthotic, or sensory aids have not existed . I was disappointed to discover this fact when I became Director of the Veterans Health Administration's Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service . It was then that I resolved to develop a data system that would provide the ne...

In this paper we propose a new approach to plane partitioning with similar features to those of Polar Diagram, but we assume that the pole is close to the sites. The result is a new tessellation of the plane in regions called Near Pole Polar Diagram NPPD. Here we define the (NPPD) of points, the dual and the Contracted dual of it, present an optimal algorithms to draw them and discuss the appli...

Power District (NPPD) implemented an inspection program to determine the extent of condition for this type of widely used conductor. Other companies which have had related issues with similar types of corrosion have simply replaced their existing insignificant miles of conductor; however NPPD transmission system includes over 2000 miles of this particular conductor. Throughout 2012, many other ...

Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) began monitoring aquatic-macrophyte production in Lake Ogallala, Nebraska, in 1989 because the lake provides cooling water for a coal-fired electricity generating facility-Gerald Gentleman Station (GGS). Large mats of macrophytes in the cooling water caused several trips of the generating units at GGS, at considerable cost to NPPD. The plants also support m...

Gerald Gentleman Station (GGS), located in southwestern Nebraska near Sutherland, is the newest and largest electric generating facility in the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) system. In August 1994, NPPD constructed a 9.2-mile long railspur between GGS and the Union Pacific Railroad to create competition in the coal-hauling market. A multi-objective criteria analysis was used to identify...

In this study, a novel three-component hydrogel has been designed and fabricated via hierarchical self-assembly by amino acid derivative (N,N′-diphenylalanine-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic diimide (NPPD)), riboflavin (RF) and α-cyclodextrin (α-CD). These molecules were aggregated to form some fibrous structures based on hydrogen bond and π–π stacking. The results show that the hydrogel has a specifi...