BACKGROUND Recently, sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) has been associated with hypertension, cardiovascular disease and death. Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have higher rates of SAS, atherosclerotic complications and death than do patients without CKD. Although the relationship between SAS and atherosclerosis is well known, few papers have described this relationship in humans, especiall...

The estimation or training methods in the neural network literature are usually some simple form of gradient descent algorithm suitable for implementation in hardware using massively parallel computations. For ordinary computers that are not massively parallel, optimization algorithms such as those in several SAS procedures are usually far more efficient. This talk shows how to fit neural netwo...

BACKGROUND Use of self-administered vaginal swabs (SAS) for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis by nucleic acid amplification tests simplifies specimen collection and transport, especially for women in nonclinical settings. GOAL We investigated the preference and comfort level of military women for the collection of SAS, compared with urine, for the diagnosis of genital chlamydial infectio...

A comprehensive graphical analysis approach to perform data exploration utilizing the latest capabilities available in SAS systems are presented here. This ® practical approach integrates graphical analysis tools available in SAS systems and provides step-wise instructions to perform data exploration quickly without writing SAS program statements or using menu interface by running the SAS macro...

Somewhere in the SAS Enterprise Guide documentation we read how easy it was to create a SAS stored process write and test your code, add a simple %stpbegin and %stpend and let SAS Enterprise Guide take care of the rest. Presto, a new stored process ready to conquer the enterprise. Although that might work in the Hello World example, our first stored process project proved that applying the same...

SAS/Connect provides an easy and reliable method for connecting remote hosts and executing SAS commands on the remote environment. This paper explores the use of SAS/Connect in conjunction with the robust Java language. Various methods of integration with SAS/Connect will be reviewed, including dynamic program generation to create and run a web-based application, and the dynamic generation and ...

This paper deals with performance issues when migrating production jobs from Version 5 to Version 6 of the SAS® System under MVS. Due to the significant differences between the architectures of Version 6 and Version 5 of the SAS System, the user might experience performance degradation/improvement when migrating some jobs to Version 6 of the SAS System. Specific areas to consider are formats an...

Centrioles make up the centrosome and basal bodies in animals and as such play important roles in cell division, signalling and motility. They possess characteristic 9-fold radial symmetry strongly influenced by the protein SAS-6. SAS-6 is essential for canonical centriole assembly as it forms the central core of the organelle, which is then surrounded by microtubules. SAS-6 self-assembles into...