Rationale: Virus-induced wheezing episodes in infancy often precede the development of
asthma. Whether infections with specific viral pathogens confer differential future asthma risk …

Background Biliary tract cancers, which arise from the intrahepatic or extrahepatic bile ducts
and the gallbladder, generally have a poor prognosis and are rising in incidence worldwide. …

Thyroid nodules are common and occur in up to 50% of the adult population; however, less
than 7% of thyroid nodules are malignant. High-resolution ultrasonography (US) is …

Although past reports have identified a variety of prognostic factors in patients with severe
chronic heart failure, previous studies have not evaluated the interaction of prognostic …

Eighteen cases of human influenza A H5N1 infection were identified in Hong Kong from
May to December 1997. Two of the six fatal cases had undergone a full post‐mortem which …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the techniques and applications of computer-generated
holograms. “Computer-generated holograms,” “synthetic holograms,” and “computer …

All viruses are gene poor relative to their hosts: even the largest viral genomes only encode
hundreds of genes, while those of host cells typically encode tens of thousands of genes. …

A technique to determine a real nonnegative function representing the transmittance of a
synthesized hologram is described. The technique uses the positions of the samples in the …

It has been assumed, based largely on morphologic evidence, that human pluripotent stem
cells (hPSCs) contain underdeveloped, bioenergetically inactive mitochondria. In contrast, …

Oversampling interpolative coding has been demonstrated to be an effective technique for
high-resolution analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion that is tolerant of process imperfections. A …