Hyper-Collection: A Possible New Paradigm in Modern Surveillance

A new paradigm in low-risk papillary microcarcinoma: active surveillance

Classical papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) is a variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) known to have excellent prognosis. It has a mortality of 0.3%, even in the presence of distance metastasis. The latest American Thyroid Association guidelines state that although lobectomy is acceptable, active surveillance can be considered in the appropriate setting. We present the case of a 37...

Ventilator associated complications: observing implications of a new surveillance paradigm

Introduction Surveillance for Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) is problematic. The CDC published a new surveillance framework [1] with two main goals. • Broaden focus of surveillance beyond VAP to include other common ventilator-associated complications (VACs). • Produce objective surveillance definitions using quantitative data based on changes in ventilator settings. It introduces a hier...

A new paradigm for urban surveillance with vehicular sensor networks

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA High Performance Networking Research Center, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, China Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China Department of Electrical and Computer Engineerin...

Lifestyle Hotels – New Paradigm of Modern Hotel Industry

The practice of modern hotel industry introduced to professional community the term “lifestyle” hotel. The paper deals with the essential meaning of this term. This raises the question of the difference between the lifestyle and boutique hotels which are in practice often identified. The paper aims to resolve the basic dilemma – whether lifestyle hotel can be treated as a special type of hotel,...

A New Paradigm in Biology – The Effect of Localization of a Protein on its Anti-genicity