Food allergy in general, and CMA in particolar, are an unique case in which a systematic approach can be applied even to single cases. As the disease involves not only the patient, but the whole family and her social supports, these can be protagonist of the diagnosis itself. As in any field of medicine, diagnosis starts from the suspicion. In patients reports for milk allergic reactions, an ac...

BACKGROUND Medical professionalism as a set of behaviours that transcends personal values, beliefs and attitudes to incorporate ethical and moral principles is considered a covenant between society and the practice of medicine. The Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice (BCMP) a three year professional degree was launched at the University of the Witwatersrand in January 2009 in response to a do...

A model of consumer behavior has been formulated by using an additive utility function and the hedonic pricing approach, in a virtual market. Since, there is a time lag between ordering and purchasing products (goods and services) online and receiving them, it means the consumer makes decision under uncertainty. The level of satisfaction with products with distinctive characteristics is describ...

Test Suite by Katalin Tarnay and Abdalla Areik With the increasing number of different communication networks and protocols, it comes more and more important to check whether a protocol implementation is conform to the formal specification. A new method for analysing abstract test suites, a fundamental step of conformance testing has been developed at the Communication Protocol Laboratory of SZ...

1256 HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE CLINICIANS are terminally nice people. We root for the underdog, care for the vulnerable, and the marginalized. But most of all, we are self-appointed patient champions fighting the health care system with a passionate commitment to improving care at the end of life. Indeed, our activism has been amazingly successful as evidenced by the recent subspecialty recog...

The origin of DNA axis curvature in complexes of the catabolite activator protein with DNA is studied using multiple molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the free and protein-bound forms of the DNA. The results are compared to available solution and crystal structure data. The MD simulations reproduce the experimentally observed bend in DNA and indicate that ;40% of the bending observed in th...

Studies conducted on design and implementation of RF front-end for UWB in the 3.1-10.6 GHz range have been based on the intrinsically wideband approach .These include distributed grounded gate and source LNA with gains of 6 and 14 dB and noise figures of 3 and 5.3 dB respectively, wideband matched LNA with a gain of 7.5 dB, DLL at 528 MHz and PLL at 3.432 GHz for realizing multi-band OFDM carri...

Young children can engage in diagnostic reasoning. However, almost all research demonstrating such capacities has investigated children’s inferences when the individual efficacy of each candidate cause is known. Here we show that there is development between ages five and seven in children’s ability to reason about the number of candidate causes whose efficacy is unknown (Study 1). We also find...

Little research effort has so far been invested in studying personas within international usability projects. Studies that include intercultural aspects often do not explore the characteristics and difficulties involved. The motivation of the research described here is to consolidate research results from the fields of usability and intercultural communication as well as practical exIn: H.-C. H...

machines for CP languages have recently become available, and initial performance results are encouraging [40]. 4 Promising Directions Constraint programming has by now shown that constraints can be used not only to represent knowledge but also as a way to guide search, prune useless branches, lter queries, and describe process communication and synchronization. With this is mind, we may identi...