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Help Preferences Among Employees Who Wish to Change Health Behaviors

Objective. To examine the help preferences of employees in the Danish police who had acknowledged that they wished to change health behaviors. In addition, we explored whether preferences varied with age, gender, chronic health concerns, positive expectations of good health, and past experiences of in-house health promotion services (i.e., wellness service). Methods. Respondents to an electronic q

Breath Figure Patterns Made Easy

In this work, a simple breath figure method was proposed to directly fabricate large-area and ordered honeycomb structures on commercial PMMA substrates or PS Petri dishes without the use of an external polymer solution. The obtained honeycomb structure is indeed part of the substrate, providing the honeycomb layer with enough mechanical stability. The breath figure method in this work for the syn

Ultra Low Power Error Correction Circuits- Technology Scaling and Sub-Vt operation

echniques are evaluated for implementing error- correction codes (ECC) in wireless applications with severe power constraints, such as bio-implantable devices and energy harvesting motes. Standard CMOS architectures are surveyed and compared against alternative implementations, including known sub-VT analog decoding techniques. Novel sub-VT digital designs are proposed and their power efficiency i

Potential Determining Salts in Microemulsions: Interfacial Distribution and Effect on the Phase Behavior

In this work we consider potential determining salts, also referred to as phase transfer agents for a future objective of electrochemistry at the oil-water interface in microemulsions. We have studied these salts, composed of a hydrophilic and a hydrophobic ion, in microemulsion stabilized by nonionic surfactants with an oligo ethylene oxide headgroup. NMR measurements show that the salts preferen

Complications to Cerebrospinal Fluid Drainage and Predictors of Spinal Cord Ischemia in Patients With Aortic Disease Undergoing Advanced Endovascular Therapy

Objective: To study the complications after cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage and predictors of spinal cord ischemia (SCI) after advanced endovascular therapy with CSF drainage for complex aortic disease. Methods: Between 2009 and 2012, 88 attempts of CSF drainage insertions/84 operations/83 patients, of the 658 operations for aortoiliac diseases, were performed. Results: Indications for therapy

Neutron xyz - polarization analysis at a time-of-flight instrument

When implementing a dedicated polarization analysis setup at a neutron time-of-flight instrument with a large area detector, one faces enormous challenges. Nevertheless, significant progress has been made towards this goal over the last few years. This paper addresses systematic limitations of the traditional method that is used to make these measurements, and a possible strategy to overcome these

Radiation Dose to Patients from from Radiopharmaceuticals: a Compendium of Current Information Related to Frequently Used Substances.

This report provides a compendium of current information relating to radiation dose to patients, including biokinetic models, biokinetic data, dose coefficients for organ and tissue absorbed doses, and effective dose for major radiopharmaceuticals based on the radiation protection guidance given in Publication 60 (ICRP, 1991). These data were mainly compiled from Publications 53 , 80, and 106 (ICR

Trans-ancestry genome-wide association study identifies 12 genetic loci influencing blood pressure and implicates a role for DNA methylation.

We carried out a trans-ancestry genome-wide association and replication study of blood pressure phenotypes among up to 320,251 individuals of East Asian, European and South Asian ancestry. We find genetic variants at 12 new loci to be associated with blood pressure (P = 3.9 × 10(-11) to 5.0 × 10(-21)). The sentinel blood pressure SNPs are enriched for association with DNA methylation at multiple n

M1 protein from Streptococcus pyogenes induces nitric oxidemediated vascular hyporesponsiveness to phenylephrine: Involvement of toll-like receptor activation.

Streptococcus pyogenes carrying M1 protein causes the severe and increasingly prevalent streptococcal toxic shock syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis. M1 protein is an important virulence factor of Streptococcus pyogenes and induces an inflammatory response in human monocytes. We wanted to investigate if purified M1 protein in solution could induce vascular nitric oxide (NO) production leading to v

Influence of weather variables on methane and carbon dioxide flux from a shallow pond

Freshwaters are important sources of the greenhouse gases methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere. Knowledge about temporal variability in these fluxes is very limited, yet critical for proper study design and evaluating flux data. Further, to understand the reasons for the variability and allow predictive modeling, the temporal variability has to be related to relevant environmen

Constraint Programming Approach to Reconfigurable Processor Extension Generation and Application Compilation

Abstract in UndeterminedIn this article, we present a constraint programming approach for solving hard design problems present when automatically designing specialized processor extensions. Specifically, we discuss our approach for automatic selection and synthesis of processor extensions as well as efficient application compilation for these newly generated extensions. The discussed approach is i

Haemophilus influenzae acquires vitronectin via the ubiquitous Protein F to subvert host innate immunity.

Acquisition of the complement inhibitor vitronectin (Vn) is important for the respiratory tract pathogen nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) to escape complement-mediated killing. NTHi actively recruits Vn, and we previously showed that this interaction involves Protein E (PE). Here we describe a second Vn-binding protein, a 30 kDa Yersinia YfeA homologue designated as Protein F (PF). An iso

The thickness of native oxides on aluminum alloys and single crystals

We present results from measurements of the native oxide film thickness on four different industrial aluminum alloys and three different aluminum single crystals. The thicknesses were determined using X-ray reflectivity, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. In addition, atomic force microscopy was used for micro-structural studies of the oxide surfaces. The

Production of prebiotic xylooligosaccharides from alkaline extracted wheat straw using the K80R-variant of a thermostable alkali-tolerant xylanase

Agricultural by-products are raw materials of importance for increased utilization of renewable biomass. Wheat straw is a raw material of significant production volume and is in this work used for production of xylooligosaccharides (XOS). Extraction of xylan by dilute alkali was followed by hydrolysis using a variant of the alkali-tolerant Bacillus halodurans S7 endoxylanase A mutated at K80R. The

Continuous-wave differential absorption lidar

This work proves the feasibility of a novel concept of differential absorption lidar based on the Scheimpflug principle. The range-resolved atmospheric backscattering signal of a laser beam is retrieved by employing a tilted linear sensor with a Newtonian telescope, satisfying the Scheimpflug condition. Infinite focus depth is achieved despite employing a large optical aperture. The concept is dem

Variability in Neuronal Expression of Dopamine Receptors and Transporters in the Substantia Nigra

Parkinson's disease (PD) patients have increased susceptibility to impulse control disorders. Recent studies have suggested that alterations in dopamine receptors in the midbrain underlie impulsive behaviors and that more impulsive individuals, including patients with PD, exhibit increased occupancy of their midbrain dopamine receptors. The cellular location of dopamine receptor subtypes and trans