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S-100β and Antioxidant Capacity in Cerebrospinal Fluid during and after Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair.
(Int Sch Res Notices, 2017)BACKGROUND: Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR) has substantially decreased the mortality and major complications from aortic surgery. However, neurological complications such as spinal cord ischemia may still occur ... -
S-duality in Abelian gauge theory revisited
(Journal of Geometry and Physics, 2011-03-01)Definition of the partition function of U(1) gauge theory is extended to a class of four-manifolds containing all compact spaces and certain asymptotically locally flat (ALF) ones including the multi-Taub-NUT spaces. The ... -
S.-S. Chern's study of almost-complex structures on the six-sphere
(2014-05-14)In 2003, S.-s. Chern began a study of almost-complex structures on the 6-sphere, with the idea of exploiting the special properties of its well-known almost-complex structure invariant under the exceptional group $G_2$. ... -
Sacred Groves’ Contributions to Forest Loss Prevention and Habitat Connectivity in Southwest India
(2018-04-27)Research in the conservation space has most often focused on traditional protected areas like national parks as being the model places that provide the benefits and values of conserved land like high biodiversity, healthy ... -
Sacred Land Endowments and Field Consecrations in Early Judaism
(2013)The endowment of land as a gift for religious institutions was a prominent feature of ancient society in the Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. Landed plots could with proper care become enduring, remunerative assets ... -
Sacrifice, Sabbath, and the Restoration of Creation
(2015)Sacrifice often connotes death or some form of lack within popular discourse. The association of sacrifice with death is assumed in some strains of the Christian tradition that employ sacrifice within a penal substitutionary ... -
SAFE: A Declarative Trust-Agile System with Linked Credentials
(2016)Secure Access For Everyone (SAFE), is an integrated system for managing trustusing a logic-based declarative language. Logical trust systems authorize eachrequest by constructing a proof from a context---a set of authenticated ... -
Safety and efficacy of ledipasvir-sofosbuvir in black patients with hepatitis C virus infection: A retrospective analysis of phase 3 data.
(Hepatology, 2016-02)UNLABELLED: Black patients chronically infected with genotype 1 hepatitis C virus (HCV) have historically had lower rates of response to interferon-based treatment than patients of other races. In the phase 3 ION program, ... -
Safety and efficacy of rivastigmine in adolescents with Down syndrome: long-term follow-up.
(J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol, 2010-12)Following the completion of a 20-week, open-label study of the safety and efficacy of liquid rivastigmine for adolescents with Down syndrome, 5 of the 10 adolescents in the clinical trial continued long-term rivastigmine ... -
Safety and immunogenicity of a replication-defective adenovirus type 5 HIV vaccine in Ad5-seronegative persons: a randomized clinical trial (HVTN 054).
(PLoS One, 2010-10-27)BACKGROUND: Individuals without prior immunity to a vaccine vector may be more sensitive to reactions following injection, but may also show optimal immune responses to vaccine antigens. To assess safety and maximal tolerated ... -
Safety and tolerability considerations in the use of sildenafil for children with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
(Drug Healthc Patient Saf, 2015)Sildenafil is a phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitor approved for treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in adults. Data from pediatric trials demonstrate a similar acute safety profile to the adult population ... -
Safety and Use of Anticoagulation After Aortic Valve Replacement With Bioprostheses: A Meta-Analysis.
(Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, 2016-05)BACKGROUND: The American College of Cardiology guidelines recommend 3 months of anticoagulation after replacement of the aortic valve with a bioprosthesis. However, there remains great variability in the current clinical ... -
Safety of coronary CT angiography and functional testing for stable chest pain in the PROMISE trial: A randomized comparison of test complications, incidental findings, and radiation dose.
(J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr, 2017-08-15)BACKGROUND: Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) and functional testing strategies for stable chest pain yield similar outcomes; one aspect that may guide test choice is safety. METHODS: We compared test safety ... -
Safety profile of L-arginine infusion in moderately severe falciparum malaria.
(PLoS One, 2008-06-11)BACKGROUND: L-arginine infusion improves endothelial function in malaria but its safety profile has not been described in detail. We assessed clinical symptoms, hemodynamic status and biochemical parameters before and after ... -
Safety, tolerability, and mechanisms of antiretroviral activity of pegylated interferon Alfa-2a in HIV-1-monoinfected participants: a phase II clinical trial.
(J Infect Dis, 2010-06-01)BACKGROUND: To our knowledge, the antiviral activity of pegylated interferon alfa-2a has not been studied in participants with untreated human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection but without chronic hepatitis ... -
Safety-critical medical device development using the UPP2SF model translation tool
(Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2014-01-01)Software-based control of life-critical embedded systems has become increasingly complex, and to a large extent has come to determine the safety of the human being. For example, implantable cardiac pacemakers have over 80,000 ... -
Sage Grouse and Fire Management on the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge
(2015-12-07)Sagebrush ecosystems represent one of the largest potential vegetation types in the western United States and function with incredible ecological influence across the landscape. Intimately connected to and dependent ... -
Sahibs and Shikar: Colonial Hunting and Wildlife in British India, 1800-1935
(2009)This dissertation explores the colonization of wildlife in nineteenth and early twentieth century British India. It discusses hunting and colonial policies on wildlife to explore the political, social and cultural concerns ... -
Saigai to Shikaku: Kantō Daishinsai no Shikaku Hyōshō o Megutte (Disaster and Vision: On the Visual Representations of the Great Kantō Earthquake)
(Kioku to Rekishi: Nihon ni okeru Kako no Shikakuka o megutte (Memory and History: Visualising the Past in Japan), 2007) -
Salicylic acid biosynthesis is enhanced and contributes to increased biotrophic pathogen resistance in Arabidopsis hybrids.
(Nat Commun, 2015-06-12)Heterosis, the phenotypic superiority of a hybrid over its parents, has been demonstrated for many traits in Arabidopsis thaliana, but its effect on defence remains largely unexplored. Here, we show that hybrids between ...
