OBJECTIVE The appropriate duration of hospitalization for infants ≤ 30 days admitted for fever or other concerns for a serious bacterial infection is an understudied area. We sought to determine the risk of a positive, pathogenic bacterial culture of blood or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in this population beyond 24 hours after collection. METHODS This study was a retrospective review of 1145 in...

Geometric data summarization has become an essential tool in both geometric approximation algorithms and where geometry intersects with big data problems. In linear or near-linear time, large data sets can be compressed into a summary, and then more intricate algorithms can be run on the summaries whose results approximate those of the full data set. Coresets and sketches are the two most impor...

' ABSTRACT O A major harrier to the human communication is attributed to the fact that there is no compatible typewriter, as in the Western World, for any non-alphabetic language outside of the Western World. This paper~11 describe how a plotter can be used through programming, as a universal graphic character writer for all non-alphabetic as well as alphabetic languages in place of the typewri...

aim and background:   knee osteoarthritis (oa) is a prevalent and disabling disease. periarticular corticosteroid injection has been traditionally used for the pain control in these patients. recently low power laser has been introduced as a therapeutic option. this study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of low power laser added to periarticular steroid injection for long-term treatment o...

a 48-year-old male patient presented to the emergency department with the complaints of epigastric pain and melena for the past 3 days. the pain was started suddenly and has progressed and after a while, he passed melena stool. he also mentioned some episodes of vomiting that was not bloody. the pain score was about 8/10 (based on verbal quantitative scale) and slightly radiated to back. he loo...