Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS)
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) ~ Introduction Guillain Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP), anautoimmune disease affecting the peripheral nervoussystem that is usually triggered by an acute infectiousprocess. GBS is an inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nerves. The peripheral nerves convey sensoryinformation (e.g., pain, temperature) from the body tothe brain and motor (i.e., [...]
September 11, 2012 | Posted in : Health & Medicine | There’s no comment yet | » read more . . .
Barriers to Swiss guideline-recommended cholesterol management in general practice
Barriers to Swiss guideline-recommended cholesterol management in general practice ~ Background: Standard guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemia are often not followed in general practice.The reasons for guideline non- adherence are not known. Methods: Charts of 1000 consecutive unselected patients of 20 general practitioners in northwestern Switzerland were reviewed. An independent committee of experienced study [...]
September 11, 2012 | Posted in : Uncategorized | There’s no comment yet | » read more . . .
Breast cancer in association with thyroid disorders
Breast cancer in association with thyroid disorders ~ Breast cancer is a hormone-dependent neoplasm. Conflicting results regarding the clinical correlation between breast cancer and thyroid diseases have been reported in the literature. Many studies showed that thyroid diseases are common among women with breast cancer [1–6], whereas other reports did not confirm such an association [...]
September 11, 2012 | Posted in : Cancer | There’s no comment yet | » read more . . .
Substance Abuse and Parenting
Substance Abuse and Parenting ~ INTRODUCTIONLike other descriptors such as socioeconomic status or parental depression that are used to de-note a potential high-risk condition for impairments in parenting, the term substance abuse en-compasses a large number of factors that may either independently or interactively contributeto parenting abilities. To a great extent, studies of substance abuse [...]
September 11, 2012 | Posted in : Health & Medicine | There’s no comment yet | » read more . . .
Computing Foundations and Practice for Cyber Physical Systems: A Preliminary Report
Computing Foundations and Practice for Cyber Physical Systems: A Preliminary Report ~ But the question we must ask is whether this loss of predictability and reliability is really necessary. I believe it is not. If we find a way to deliver predictable and reliable software (that is predictable and reliable with respect to properties that [...]
September 11, 2012 | Posted in : Technology & Programming & Computer | There’s no comment yet | » read more . . .
Towards Trustworthy Computing Systems: Taking Microkernels to the Next Level
Towards Trustworthy Computing Systems: Taking Microkernels to the Next Level ~ Furthermore, embedded computing systems are increasingly used to handle sensitive personal data. For example, in some coun- tries people routinely perform financial transactions via their mo- bile phones, and an increasing number of countries use embedded computer systems to store and access sensitive medical [...]
September 11, 2012 | Posted in : Technology & Programming & Computer | There’s no comment yet | » read more . . .
Predicate Abstraction for Reachability Analysis of Hybrid Systems
Predicate Abstraction for Reachability Analysis of Hybrid Systems ~ Traditionally, control theory and related engineering disciplines have addressed the problem of designing robust control laws to ensure optimal performance of physical processes with continuous dynamics. This approach to system design has largely ignored the problem of implementing such control laws in software. Therefore, issues related [...]
September 11, 2012 | Posted in : Science | There’s no comment yet | » read more . . .
Improving Security for Periodic Tasks in Embedded Systems through Scheduling
Improving Security for Periodic Tasks in Embedded Systems through Scheduling ~ SASES judiciously distributes slack times among a variety of security services for a set of periodic tasks, thereby optimizing se- curity for embedded systems without sacrificing schedulability. To demonstrate the effectiveness of SASES, we apply the proposed SASES to real-world embedded systems such as [...]
September 11, 2012 | Posted in : Science | There’s no comment yet | » read more . . .
THE VISA FINANCIAL BRAND: A STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
THE VISA FINANCIAL BRAND: A STRATEGIC ANALYSIS ~ The credit industry began with a plastic card. Behind the plastic and later the magnetic strips was one of the most revolutionary financial ideas of the 20th century: having a cashless payment system (VISA corporate report, 2004). Credit cards became the consumer’s way to pay–and also the [...]
September 11, 2012 | Posted in : Business | There’s no comment yet | » read more . . .
Assessing Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change: Modeling Techniques and Challenges
Assessing Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change: Modeling Techniques and Challenges ~ Assessing the impact of climate change on hydrology es- sentially involves projections of climatic variables (e.g., temperature, humidity, mean sea level pressure etc.) at a global scale, downscaling of global scale climatic variables into local scale hydrologic variables and computations of risk of hydrologic [...]
September 11, 2012 | Posted in : Science | There’s no comment yet | » read more . . .
Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change on the Nile River Basin: Implications of the 2007 IPCC Climate Scenarios
Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change on the Nile River Basin: Implications of the 2007 IPCC Climate Scenarios ~ The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) has resulted in a wealth of General Circulation Model (GCM) runs that have been archived in a consistent manner at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and [...]
September 11, 2012 | Posted in : Science | There’s no comment yet | » read more . . .
The impact of climate change on seasonal floods of a southern Quebec River Basin
The impact of climate change on seasonal floods of a southern Quebec River Basin ~ Several studies have looked at the potential impact of climate change on the hydrology of watersheds (Croley,1990; Morin and Slivitzky, 1992; Whetton et al., 1993; Kite, 1993; Knox, 1993; Chiew et al., 1995; Singh and Kumar, 1997; Cohen, 1997; Arora [...]
September 11, 2012 | Posted in : Science | There’s no comment yet | » read more . . .
