Background Although malnutrition indicates an unfavorable prognosis in some clinical settings,
the association between nutritional indexes and outcomes for patients with chronic heart …

Background There is a residual risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) despite intensive statin
therapy for secondary prevention. The aim of this study was to investigate whether coronary …

Background and Aim Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality,
and cardiac cachexia and sarcopenia are serious complications associated with weight …

Discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA), a discrete numerical analysis method, is used to
simulate the behaviour of falling rock by applying a linear displacement function in the …

Background Various adipokines are reported to be associated with the development of
heart failure (HF) through insulin resistance and chronic inflammation. Omentin-1 is a novel …

Objective— The response-to-tissue-injury theory is currently the favorite paradigm to investigate
valve pathology. To the best of our knowledge, there are currently no in vivo valve injury …

Background Oxidative stress due to purine degradation is associated with the development
of chronic heart failure (CHF). Xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) is a rate-limiting enzyme of …

Inspections to evaluate the safety, durability, and service life of aging infrastructure play an
important role in determining the countermeasures that need to be taken, such as …

Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (DDA) and Numerical Manifold Method (NMM) have
been widely used for the analyses of discontinuous rock masses. Recently, these discontinuum…

In this paper, simulations of real rockfall by discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) are
conducted. In the simulations, the energy losses of rockfall are categorized into three types, ie …