Glomerular hyperfiltration (GHF) is an increase in single-nephron glomerular filtration rate (GFR) that occurs in both physiological states and pathological states. Whole-kidney GHF is often used as a...
In the field of long-life fatigue, predicting fatigue lives and limits for mechanical components is crucial for ensuring reliability and safety. Fracture mechanics tools have enabled the estimation of...
Carrier multiplication (CM), multiexciton generation by absorbing a single photon, enables disruptive improvements in photovoltaic conversion efficiency. However, energy conservation constrains the th...
In automated hearing threshold determination procedures, prespecified response- time limits can be applied to evaluate whether a stimulus was truly heard by checking whether the test subject reacts to...
Two-stage hearing threshold level measurements applying the ISO 8253-1 (2010) bracketing procedure were performed. Pre-tests at 125 Hz and 1000 Hz were carried out with maximum accepted response times...
15 test subjects in pre-tests, 25 test subjects in the main study....
Threshold levels determined with a maximum accepted response time of 1000 ms are 2.6 dB lower than those obtained with a maximum accepted response time of 600 ms (95% CI -1.6 dB to 6.9 dB). The thresh...
Based on this study, response-time limits after both stimulus onset and offset of at least 1000 ms are recommended....
Consider a cooperation game on a spatial network of habitat patches, where players can relocate between patches if they judge the local conditions to be unfavorable. In time, the relocation events may...
The past years have sharpened the industry's understanding of a Quality by Design (QbD) approach toward clinical trials. Using QbD encourages designing quality into a trial during the planning phase. ...
Determining the fatigue threshold of elastomers is particularly important to predict their durability and lifespan. However, there has been almost no effective approach to calculate this threshold fas...
To assess the nature of relationships between increasing body mass index (BMI) and the prevalence of midlife symptoms in a population with high adiposity....
In the cross-sectional Study of Women's Health in Qatar, 841 participants aged 40 to 60 years were recruited from nine primary health centers in Doha. Face-to-face interviews collected demographic, me...
Mean BMI was 34.3 kg/m 2 (SD, 6.0 kg/m 2 ). Women with class II and III obesity had higher odds of reporting aches/stiffness than women with a healthy BMI, and the odds of reporting urinary incontinen...
Even at very high levels of BMI, likelihood of urinary incontinence and shortness of breath increases with BMI. In contrast, likelihood of aches/stiffness has a nonlinear relationship with BMI, increa...
Chylous abdominal effusions are serious complications that can be triggered by various aetiologies. The biochemical diagnosis of chyle leakage in ascites or in peritoneal fluid capsules relies on the ...
We conducted a 9-year, retrospective, single-centre study of adult patients and compared a triglyceride assay with lipoprotein gel electrophoresis for the analysis of 90 non-recurring abdominal effusi...
A triglyceride threshold of 0.4 mmol/L was associated with a sensitivity > 95%, and a threshold of 2.4 mmol/L was associated with a specificity > 95%. According to Youden index, the best threshold was...
In our series, cut-off of 0.4 mmol/L could be used for ruling-out diagnosis of chylous effusions, while cut-off of 2.4 mmol/L could be used for reasonably confirming diagnosis....
Complex-valued convolutional neural networks (CVCNNs) have been demonstrated effectiveness in classifying complex signals and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. However, due to the introduction of...
