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PCN58 MEDICAL RESOURCE CONSUMPTION RELATED TO THE TREATMENT OF IRINOTECAN REFRACTORY ADVANCED COLORECTAL CANCER PATIENTS
PCV26 AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF THE INCIDENCE OF DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS AND PULMONARY EMBOLISM IN PATIENTS WITH HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY AND OF ITS IMPACT ON THE AVERAGE LENGTH OF STAY
PG17 MANAGEMENT OF OPIOID INDUCED CONSTIPATION (OIC) IN PAIN PATIENTS: A COST OF ILLNESS STUDY IN BELGIUM AND THE NETHERLANDS
La niche écologique, des concepts théoriques aux utilisations pratiques
In concluding the discussions of the Montpellier symposium, the author emphasizes some of the operational difficulties of defining the ecological niche of a species in field conditions. The difficulty of singling out the relevant parameters (from the species viewpoint) is particularly great. A parallel is made with the genotype concept in genetics
Tactile discrimination and representations of texture, shape, and softness
We present here some of the salient results on the tactual discriminabilities of human subjects obtained through psychophysical experiments, and the associated peripheral neural codes obtained through electrophysiological recordings from monkey single nerve fibers. Humans can detect the presence of a 2 micron high single dot on a smooth glass plate stroked on the skin, based on the responses of Meissner type rapidly adapting fibers (RAs). They can also detect a 0.06 micron high grating on the plate, owing to the response of Pacinian corpuscle fibers. Among all the possible representations of the shapes of objects, the surface curvature distribution seems to be the most relevant for tactile sensing. Slowly adapting fibers respond to both the change and rate of change of curvature of the skin surface at the most sensitive spot in their receptive fields, whereas RAs respond only to the rate of change of curvature. Human discriminability of compliance of objects depends on whether the object has a deformable or rigid surface. When the surface is deformable, the spatial pressure distribution within the contact region is dependent on object compliance, and hence information from cutaneous mechanoreceptors is sufficient for discrimination of subtle differences in compliance. When the surface is rigid, kinesthetic information is necessary for discrimination, and the discriminability is much poorer than that for objects with deformable surfaces
PRM37 Impact Of Single Risk Factor Changes On Long-Term Outcomes And Cost In A Type 2 Diabetes Modeling Study Contrasting Projections With Ukpds68, Swedish National Diabetes Registry And The Advance Risk Equations
PCV94 THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF TITRATION TO GOAL WITH BRAND ROSUVASTATIN COMPARED TO GENERIC SIMVASTATIN IN PATIENTS WITH ELEVATED LOW-DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PREVENTION IN THE BELGIAN HEALTH CARE SETTING
PRM17 Quantifying Nonlinear Effects in Stochastic Markov Simulation Using UKPDS 68 and Ukpds 82 Equations in Type 2 Diabetes Modeling Analysis With the IMS Core Diabetes Model (CDM)
PRM87 All-Cause Mortality Validation of the Core Diabetes Model Against Predictions of the Charlson Comorbidity Index
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