Telescopes for the amateur astronomer don't really push the limits of optical materials in such a way that there are any dramatic differences between fluorite and the best ED glass types available today. The biggest advantage to using fluorite is probably its higher relative partial dispersion which...
A total of 40 patients from both groups were diagnosed with a UTI at visit (indwelling catheters vs IC: 8% (16/206) vs 8% (24/299); p = 0·782), and the number of UTIs within the past 12 months was not significantly different between groups. Overall, Escherichia coli (21%)...
Brashares JS, Arcese P (1999a) Scent marking in a territorial African antelope: the maintenance of borders between male oribi. Anim Behav 57:1–10 Article PubMed Google Scholar Brashares JS, Arcese P (1999b) Scent marking in a territorial African antelope: II. The economics of marking with...
We tested the alternative hypotheses for Allen's rule for UB, EK, and SF in Qinghai Province, China, by modeling their current and future habitat suitability and confirming whether a consistent pattern exists between climate-induced range shifts and morphological differences among species. The extent...
especially in the female population, significantly increasing with a decline in hormone levels during menopause. Therefore, this review aimed to clarify the relationship between estrogen and these risk factors for HFpEF, providing novel therapeutic targets to combat this devastating disease worldwide from...
4, this parameter is used to control the trade-off between the fooling rate, the sparsity, and the complexity. Values close to 1, lead to sparser per- turbations, but also to lower fooling rate and increased com- plexity. On the contrary, higher values of lead to fast convergence ...
There was a significant interaction between age and sex for a physical functioning PRO (SF-36): the older female cohort reported lower physical functioning than men (p=0.002). There were no differences in depression (Center for Epidemiological Study – Depression, CES-D) or fatigue (Modified Fa...
The range of MCIDs for the 6MWT using the SEM, effect size, and ‘other methods’ was similar to that seen in studies using the anchor-based approach with ranges between 13 and 45 m (excluding an 80 m outlier), 20–59 m, and 29–47 m, respectively. When the estimated MCIDs were...
Differences between staged bilateral total knee replacement (TKR) and simultaneous bilateral TKR have been investigated, but few studies have investigated differences in the functional improvements resulting from these methods. Therefore, this study investigates the different functional improvements between stage...
and age, on the grounds that the face is “usually the first source of information available about a person” (Jackson,1992, p. 3). The study concluded with a significant disproportion between the times in which the participants attributed male gender to the stimuli compared to times in whic...