Method of differential prognostication of pertussis morbidity

The authors present a method of differential prognostication of pertussis morbidity permitting to consider in prognostication the tendencies of individual subsets of the dynamic series which could be conditioned by individual causes. The general picture of the phenomenon to be prognosticated is obtained by superimposition of the values prognosticated by each of the segregated subsets.     

Nonstationary nonlinear heat-conduction problems

An exact analytical solution is constructed for the one-dimensional nonlinear nonstationary problem of heat conductivity with boundary conditions of the third kind.Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 743–746, October, 1978.     

Three-dimensional facial morphometry and conventional cephalometrics: a correlation study

Analysis of genomic sequences is necessarily an ongoing process. Initial gene assignments tend (wisely) to be on the conservative side (Venter, 1996). The analysis of the genome then grows in an iterative fashion as additional data and more sophisticated algorithms are brought to bear on the data. The present report is an emendation of the original gene list of Methanococcus jannaschii (Bult et al., 1996). By using a somewhat more updated database and more relaxed (and operator-intensive) pattern matching methods, we were able to add significantly to, and in a few cases amend, the gene identification table originally published by Bult et al. (1996).     

Stability and improvement of health after nursing home admission

This prospective study investigated stability of residents' mental status, function (activities of daily living), and mood during the first and second week following nursing home admission. New residents (N = 647) in eight urban nursing homes were assessed three times. Mental status was measured using the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire, function was measured using Scaled Outcome Criteria, and mood was measured using the Mood Adjective Checklist. A repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance, controlling for admission from hospital and readmission to the nursing home, documented stable mental status during the first and second week of nursing home residence. Hygiene, grooming, dressing, and transferring improved, whereas feeding, ambulation, urination, and defecation were stable. Tired and depressed mood adjectives improved, and angry, cheerful, afraid, lonely, and alert mood adjectives were stable. Residents admitted from a hospital had lower mental status and function scores, and readmitted residents had lower urination scores.     

Generalized Model for Engineering and Controlling a Complex Multistage Chemical Energotechnological System for Processing Apatite-Nepheline Ore Wastes

Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering - A comprehensive formulation for the problem of engineering applied to a multistage chemical energotechnological system for the production of...