OBJECTIVE - Potty To analyze the trends in risk of death due to cardiovascular diseases in the northern, northeastern, southern, southeastern, and central western Brazilian geographic regions from 1979 to 1996.METHODS - Data on mortality due to cardiovascular, cardiac ischemic, and cerebrovascular diseases in 5 Brazilian geographic regions were obt

Cytop is a commercially available amorphous fluoropolymer with excellent characteristics including electric insulation, water and oil repellency, chemical resistance, and moisture-proof property, making it an attractive material as hydrophobic layers in electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) devices.However, its highly hydrophobic surface makes it dif

Genomic tiling arrays have been described in the scientific literature since 2003, yet there is a shortage of user-friendly applications available for their analysis.Tiling Array Analyzer (TiArA) is a software program that provides a user-friendly graphical interface for the background subtraction, normalization, and summarization USB Card Reader o

Cruise ships are large and complex, and it is difficult to manually make a plan to evacuate people to safe areas in a short time.Evacuation time and personnel safety are both important for emergency evacuation.This paper proposes an evacuation strategy that considers the path capacity and risk level to guide evacuees in fire; it not only ensures th

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