STUDY OBJECTIVES To identify factors predisposing cystic fibrosis (CF) patients to Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infection and to determine whether coinfection with S maltophilia affects the clinical response to therapy with tobramycin solution for inhalation (TSI), 300 mg bid. DESIGN Retrospective review of data collected from two identical, 6-month, randomized, placebo-controlled trials. S...

Top surface imaging (TSI) has had an interesting history. This process showed great promise in the late 1980’s and several attempts were made to introduce it to full-scale manufacturing. Unfortunately, defect density problems limited the process and it fell from favor. TSI emerged again as an important part of the EUV and 193 nm strategies in the early stages of those programs because it offere...

In the past two decades, an increasing number of equity market anomalies have been reported in the literature, thus raising doubts about the applicability of the efficient market hypothesis and the capital asset pricing model. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalization Weighted Stock Index Option (TXO) was introduced by the Taiwan Futures Exchange on December 24, 2001. Since the underlying asset ...

This paper proposes a new design strategy for optimizing MRI pulse sequences for T1 relaxometry. The design strategy optimizes the pulse sequence parameters to minimize the maximum variance of unbiased T1 estimates over a range of T1 values using the Cramér-Rao bound. In contrast to prior sequences optimized for a single nominal T1 value, the optimized sequence using our bound-based strategy ac...

A sample of female U.S. Navy recruits (N = 1,051) was surveyed for histories of childhood abuse and current trauma symptomatology. Victims of only childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and victims of both CSA and childhood physical abuse (CPA) had significantly higher scores on all 10 Trauma Symptom Inventory (TSI) clinical scales than did participants who did not report a history of childhood abuse. Vi...

To figure out the torrefaction characteristics and weight loss dynamics of microalgae residues, the thermogravimetric analyses of two microalgae (Chlamydomonas sp. JSC4 and Chlorella sorokiniana CY1) residues are carried out. A parameter of torrefaction severity index (TSI) in the range of 0-1, in terms of weight loss ratio between a certain operation and a reference operation, is defined to in...

The Touch Sensing Software (TSS) solution transforms a standard Freescale microcontroller into a proximity capacitive touch sensor controller. In TSS 3.0 and higher versions, the touch sense library enables capacitive sensing not only for the entire Freescale S08, ColdFire V1 family and ARM®CortexTM-M4 Kinetis, but also ARM Cortex-M0+ Kinetis L family of microcontrollers. In the TSS 3.0.1 Libra...

BACKGROUND Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is useful in reducing post-operative pain in laparoscopic nephrectomy compared to placebo. The purpose of this work is to compare post-operative pain and recovery after TAP block or trocar site infiltration (TSI) in this surgery. METHODS A prospective, single blinded study on patients scheduled for laparoscopic nephrectomy. Patients were assi...

Identifying recent HIV infection cases has important public health and clinical implications. It is essential for estimating incidence rates to monitor epidemic trends and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions. Detecting recent cases is also important for HIV prevention given the crucial role that recently infected individuals play in disease transmission, and because early treatment onse...

OBJECTIVE To document nutritional status and health behaviours of young indigenous women of childbearing age in rural communities in north Queensland. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of 424 Aboriginal and 232 Torres Strait Islander (TSI) women aged 15-34 years, conducted in twenty-three rural and remote communities of far north Queensland in 1999-2000, with follow-up of a smaller cohort (n 132)...