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Purpose: A decrease in aortic stiffness could theoretically occur after several years of treatment but reduction has never been unequivocally demonstrated in clinical practice. Association with changes in blood pressure remained unclear. Methods: This longitudinal observational study was conducted in...

We classify quadratic Poisson structures on so (4) and e(3), which have the same foliations by symplectic leaves as canonical Lie-Poisson tensors. The separated variables for some of the corresponding bi-integrable systems are constructed.

Educational activities with robots have been conducted at each stage – from kindergarten to junior high school. In this paper, we propose and verify educational material supporting collaborative operations through experiences related to people and objects. Specifically, three children used joysticks...

Introduction: Medical students tend to reduce their sleep, in an effort to adjust and cope with their workload and stressful environment. This study estimated the prevalence of and the relationship between poor sleep quality and stress among medical students. Methods: This cross-sectional study was...

Twice-yearly child health weeks are an effective way of reaching children with essential child survival services in developing countries. In Kenya, child health weeks, or Malezi Bora, were restructured in 2007 from an outreach-based delivery structure to a health facility-based delivery structure to...

Stroke is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and its late burden has mainly been attributable to developing countries. Lebanon is one of these countries where epidemiological studies on stroke burden are scarce but necessary. Thus, the present study was conducted to assess the prevalence...

A large international response was needed to bring the 2014/15 West African Ebola virus disease outbreak under control. This study sought to learn lessons from this epidemic to strengthen the response to future outbreaks of international significance by identifying priorities for future epidemiology...

Background: Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is the foremost single cause of mortality and loss of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) globally. A large percentage of this burden is found in low and middle income countries. This accounts for nearly 7 million deaths and 129 million DALYs annually and...

In this paper, we first obtain Wronskian solutions to the Bäcklund transformation of the Leznov lattice and then derive the coupled system for the Bäcklund transformation through Pfaffianization. It is shown the coupled system is nothing but the Bäcklund transformation for the coupled Leznov lattice...

We give a complete description of the Darboux and Liouville integrability of a general Rayleigh-Duffing oscillator through the characterization of its polynomial first integrals, Darboux polynomials and exponential factors.

Introduction: Anti-hypertensive agents differ in their ability to slow progression of the increase in carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) with disease and have different effects on the lumen diameter (LD) of the carotid artery. We hypothesised that changes in flow and shear stress in the common...

Objective: Atosiban (oxytocin-antagonist) and ritodrine (β-agonist) are frequently used tocolytics. Only a few studies investigated the hemodynamic effects of atosiban. We therefore aimed to study the effects on the blood pressure (BP) and BP-amplification. Methods: Twenty healthy female volunteers...

Objective: Atosiban and ritodrine are frequently used tocolytics. Only a few studies investigated the hemodynamic effects of atosiban. We therefore aimed to study the central and peripheral hemodynamics of both medications. Methods: Twenty healthy female volunteers (19–41 yrs) were given atosiban (300...

The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has dawned as a tool to facilitate the flow of information and allow information sharing among different business partners. It appears as a response to the inappropriateness of the traditional systems which become outdated as a result of the change in business needs...

A huge family of separable potential perturbations of integrable billiard systems and the Jacobi problem for geodesics on an ellipsoid is given through the Appell hypegeometric functions F4 of two variables, leading to an interesting connection between two classical theories: separability in Hamilton­Jacobi...

In this paper, we establish the connection between the quantized W-algebra of sl(2, 1) and quantum parafermions of Uq(^sl(2)) that a shifted product of the two quantum parafermions of Uq(^sl(2)) generates the quantized W-algebra of sl(2, 1).

This report is devoted to generalization of the equivalence transformations. Let a system of differential equations be given. Almost all systems of differential equations have arbitrary elements: arbitrary functions or arbitrary constants.

Environmental and demographic pressures have led to the current importance of Water Demand Management (WDM), where the concepts of efficiency and sustainability now play a key role. Water must be conveyed to where it is needed, in the right quantity, at the required pressure, and at the right time using...

We retrospectively analyzed the impact of initial positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET-CT) complete remission (CR) and time to next treatment (TTNT) on patient outcome in follicular lymphoma. Between 2002 and 2014, 150 patients could be evaluated for treatment response and long-term...

Based on the historical data of meteorological disasters in East China during 2004–2015, the overall characteristics, interannual variations and the hazards of meteorological disasters in different provinces of East China were analyzed. The results indicated that flood disaster (including landslide and...

Caregivers are the persons who provide care at the time of distress or illness. They face many stress and strain to provide the best possible medical care for their children. There are very few studies that explored the care-related quality of life (CarerQoL) of the caregivers of thalassemic children...

The SARS-CoV-2-induced novel coronavirus disease has become a global pandemic. As the latest coronavirus variants are even more infectious and deadly, its treatment is very difficult. Currently used drugs such as remdesivir, saquinavir, and chloroquine have several drawbacks. Recent studies have reported...

When some parts of the world are still debating whether the public wearing masks will help prevent and control the COVID-19. We have used questionnaires to investigate the wearing of masks and its influencing factors among residents in 11 cities in Shanxi Province. The questionnaire was designed based...

Most of the evaluation problems are comprehensive and with ever-increasingly more uncertainties. By quantifying the involved uncertainties, Basic Uncertain Information can both well handle and merge those uncertainties in the input information. This study proposed a two-level comprehensive evaluation...