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Background: High mortality and the rate of patients who depend on care after survived stroke illustrate the importance of prevention and the importance of the development of predictors to identify patients with a high risk for an adverse progress of disease. The level of the arterial blood pressure depends...

Background: Obesity is linked to a higher prevalence of risk factors, metabolic and inflammatory pathways conducting to increased vascular disease and CV risk. Objective: To assess vascular disarrangements and haemodynamic patterns in obese young subjects (O) compared with matched lean (L) controls,...

Objective: The autonomic nervous system (ANS) plays an important role in regulating blood pressure (BP), but its action on arterial stiffness (AS) is still debated. Here we examine if device-guided paced breathing (DGB) 1, via its action on ANS, can affect AS beyond its BP-lowering effect in hypertensive...

Introduction: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with increased cardiovascular (CV) risk. OSA is highly prevalent among patients with type-2 diabetes (T2D). Patients with T2D have increased risk of cardiovascular events, and have an increased aortic stiffness. Continuous Positive Airway Pressure...

Alliances has the potential to assist hemodialysis centers in pooling their IT resources to achieve mutually compatible goals such as improved work-flow efficiency, a higher quality of healthcare services, decreased scheduling conflicts, reduced patient waiting time, and reduction in healthcare costs...

The distributions taken up in two recently published papers are compared and certain characterizations of them are presented. These characterizations are based on: (i) a simple relationship between two truncated moments; (ii) truncated moments of certain functions of the nth order statistic; (iii) truncated...

This study uses text mining as a method of examining the role of management and culture in three disasters in the nuclear energy sector, Three Mile Island nuclear reactor explosion (USA 1979), Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion (Ukraine then USSR 1986) and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (Japan...

Clustering for data aggregation is essential nowadays for increasing the wireless sensor network (WSN) lifetime, by collecting the monitored information within a cluster at a cluster head. The clustering algorithm reduces overall transmission of data from each sensor to the sink node thus energy spent...

The limited amount of good tools for supporting elicitation of preference information in multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) causes practical problem. In our experiences, this can be remedied by allowing more relaxed input statements from decision-makers, causing the elicitation process to be less...

This paper presents the results of a baseline survey undertaken for the Norfolk Island Carbon Health Evaluation (NICHE) project and analyzes the relationships among key variables hypothesized as affecting respondents’ intentions to use a personal carbon trading (PCT) system. The survey was delivered...

In this paper, we study the properties of a nonlinearly dispersive integrable system of fifth order and its associated hierarchy. We describe a Lax representation for such a system which leads to two infinite series of conserved charges and two hierarchies of equations that share the same conserved charges....

The nonlinear wave equation with variable long wave velocity and the Gordon-type equations (in particular, the omega-model equation) display a range of symmetry generators, inter alia, translations, Lorentz rotations and scaling - all of which are related to conservation laws. We do a study of the symmetries...

OMNIgene·SPUTUM (OM-S) is a sample transport reagent designed to work with all tuberculosis diagnostics while eliminating the need for cold chain. OM-S-treated sputum samples were assayed in several tests after multiday holds. Raw sputa from 100 patients underwent direct smear microscopy, were manually...

Iron deficiency with or without anemia is associated with increased susceptibility to infection owing to impaired immune function; this study aimed to examine the associations between markers of iron status and white blood cell counts in African schoolchildren. This cross-sectional study is part of the...

Objective: There has been little inquiry addressing whether or not concerns about adverse effects of energy drink usage are relevant in the Caribbean. This survey investigated energy drink usage and adverse consequences among tertiary level students in Trinidad and Tobago. Methods: A cross-sectional...

Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide and can be diagnosed and treated in primary care clinics. No studies to date have demonstrated the prevalence of depression in rural, primary care settings in Mexico. The objective of this study is to describe the prevalence of visits for depression...

The data generated by many factorial experiments are analyzed by linear regression models. Often the higher order interaction terms of such models are negligible (e.g., R. Mead, The Design of Experiments, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988, p. 368) although there is uncertainty around it. This...

Thromboembolic causes of acute limb ischemia are not frequent; however, an immediate true therapy is needed to save the extremity. Here we presented a case with bilateral lower extremity arterial thromboembolism mimicking conversion disorder. Conversion disorder and acute arterial embolism can be confronted...

The prognostic superiority of ambulatory over clinic blood pressure has been repeatedly proven. However, due to the mechanical properties of the arterial system, systolic and pulse pressures are higher in the brachial artery than in the ascending aorta. It seems logical that central pressures are more...

Background: In heart failure patients with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices (CF-LVAD), arterial pulsatility in the brain is reduced and diastolic blood velocities (Vmin) are maintained. The effects of such altered hemodynamics on kinetic energy and, importantly, energy loss in the cerebral...

Objective: Ambulatory Arterial Stiffness Index (AASI) and symmetric AASI (sAASI) have been proposed as indices of arterial stiffness obtained by 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). ABPM allows the analysis of indices of BP variability like day and night SD, BP dipping, weighted 24-h...

We will display two different kinds of experiments, which are Network-based Intrusion Detection System (NIDS)-based and dynamic-based analysis shows how artificial intelligence helps us detecting and classify malware. On the NID, we use CICIDS2017 as a research dataset, embedding high dimensional features...

This study provides an ex ante short-run impact analysis of tariff liberalisation in the context of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) customs union regarding tariff revenue and import values. As with other customs union on the continent,...

We exhibit the solution of the initial-value problem for the system of 2N + 2 oscillators characterized by the Hamiltonian H(p^0,pˇ0,p^_,pˇ_,q^0,qˇ0,q^_,qˇ_)=12[p^02−pˇ02+Ω2(q^02−qˇ02)]        +q^0−Ωqˇ02b∑n=1N[p^n2−pˇn2+ωn2(q^n2−qˇn2)]+p^0−Ωq^0b∑n=1N[−p^npˇn+ωn2q^nqˇn] where N is an arbitrary positive...

Aggressive T-cell depletion, in vitro or in vivo, is a prerequisite for survival of haplo-identical stem cell transplantation. The classical T-cell-depleted transplant, immunomagnetically enriched CD34+ cells, is very safe with respect to graft-versus-host reactivity, but associated with very high transplant-related...

Background: Sedentary behavior has deleterious effects on cardiovascular risk. Uninterrupted sitting is associated with an impaired peripheral blood flow and vascular function. However, the relation between cerebrovascular flow and sedentary behavior is currently unknown. Impaired cerebrovascular flow...

Background: Crosstalk between large and small arteries has been suggested to partake in the microvascular complication development in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Yet, data are scarce. In the present study, we aimed to elucidate the crosstalk between large and small arteries in T2DM. Methods:...

Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS) is defined as sudden onset of a neurologic deficit. The main risk factor for stroke is high blood pressure (BP) and it is elevated in more than 70% or more of patients with AIS. In patients with AIS, management of blood pressure by brachial pressure is very important, but...

Background: Diabetic complications increase with disease duration but little is known about the relationships between aortic stiffness and diabetes duration. Aim: to assess associations of diabetes mellitus (DM) duration and parameters of arterial stiffness in patients with arterial hypertension (AH)...

A photoelectron-by-photoelectron classical simulation of EPR-B correlations is dscribed. It is shown that this model can be made compatible with Bell's renowned "no-go" theorem by restricting the source to that which produces only what is known as paired photons.

The superposition formulas for solutions of integrable vector evolutionary equations on a sphere are constructed by means of auto-B ?acklund transformation. The equations under consideration were obtained earlier by Sokolov and Meshkov in the frame of the symmetry approach.

We investigate the influence of the update dynamics on the evolution of cooperation. Three of the most studied games in this area are used: Prisoner’s Dilemma, Snowdrift and the Stag Hunt. Previous studies with the Prisoner’s Dilemma game reported that less cooperators survive with the asynchronous...

We prove the existence of solitary traveling wave solutions for an equation describing the evolution of the free surface for waves of moderate amplitude in the shallow water regime. This nonlinear third-order partial differential equation arises as an approximation of the Euler equations, modeling the...

Hypertension, even when pharmaceutically controlled, may accelerate arterial stiffening and impair changes in blood flow necessary to support neural activity (neurovascular coupling [NVC]). Optimal NVC requires continuous, non-pulsatile flow, which is partially determined by extra- and intra-cranial...

Background: Accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are involved in several pathophysiological processes in the vessel wall, that may cause premature atherosclerosis and arterial stiffening (1). A soluble form of RAGE (sRAGE), which is a splice variant of full-length RAGE has been considered...

Pressure and flow are travelling waves and are reflected at many locations. The forward and reflected waves, obtained by wave separation, are compound waves. This compounded character of the reflected wave explains why its magnitude decreases with increased peripheral resistance, why it appears to run...

Purpose/Background/Objective: Hypertension has been considered as one of the most common modifiable risk factors for stroke and cognitive impairment. Decreased cerebral perfusion and oxygenation, as a result of capillary rarefaction and microvascular impairment of brain vessels, have been suggested as...

Objective: To investigate the influence of weight excess and blood pressure (BP) on vascular structure and function in a sample of obese children. Methods: We measured office and ambulatory BP (ABPM), carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT), endothelial function by the Flow Mediated Dilation (FMD) technique,...

In this paper we have explored a new discrete probability mass function that has been generated through compounding mechanism. This newly proposed probability mass function is essentially a mixture of Poisson and Ailamujia distribution. Furthermore the parameter estimation has also been discussed by...

Introduction: Hypertension often clusters with other cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity, dyslipidemia and glucose intolerance. Weight loss can decrease Blood Pressure (BP) and improve cardiometabolic abnormalities. There is evidence that hypertension and obesity are associated with alterations...