A novel method of teaching military medical ethics, medical ethics and military ethics in the Israel Defense Force (IDF) Medical Corps, essential topics for all military medical personnel, is discussed. Very little time is devoted to medical ethics in medical curricula, and even less to military medical ethics. Ninety-five per cent of American students in eight medical schools had less than 1&e...

We propose a method to mine novel, document-specific associations between terms in a collection of unstructured documents. We believe that documents are often best described by the relationships they establish. This is also evidenced by the popularity of conceptual maps, mind maps, and other similar methodologies to organize and summarize information. Our goal is to discover term relationships ...

BACKGROUND We aimed to explore the agreement among World Health Organization (WHO), European Group for the Study of Insulin Resistance (EGIR), National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP), American College of Endocrinology (ACE), and International Diabetes Federation (IDF) definitions of the metabolic syndrome. METHODS 1568 subjects (532 men, 1036 women, mean age 45 and standard deviation (S...

OBJECTIVE The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has proposed a new definition of the metabolic syndrome that emphasizes central adiposity as determined by ethnic group-specific thresholds of waist circumference. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of this syndrome using the IDF definition among U.S. adults and to compare it with the prevalence estimated using the de...

The Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) is being developed by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to provide satellite navigation performance compliant with the stringent requirements for aircraft precision approach and landing. A primary design goal for LAAS is to insure that failures occurring in the ground or space segments be eliminated by the ground system before differential co...

OBJECTIVE Insulin resistance (IR) is an important risk factor for type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM2) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Metabolic Syndrome (MS) is a clustering of metabolic alterations associated to IR; however, there is no international consensus for defining its diagnosis. Our objective was to evaluate the prevalence and characteristics of MS identified by the ATP III and IDF crite...

INTRODUCTION To determine the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MS) in an Iranian elderly population and show its association with coronary heart disease (CHD). MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional study on 720 Iranian men and women aged > or = 65 years who participated in the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS). Logistic regression analysis was used to estimate the odds rati...

In 2007 the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) proposed single blood pressure (BP) cutpoints (systolic: ≥130 mm Hg and diastolic: ≥85 mm Hg) for the diagnosis of high blood pressure (HBP) in adolescents. Before this proposal, HBP had been defined as BP at or above the 95th percentile for age, sex, and height percentile (reference standard). In this study, we evaluated the risk for misclass...

Document classification nowadays is an easy thing to do because there are the latest methods get maximum results. using term weighting TF-IDF-ICF method has been widely studied. Documents used in this research generally use large documents. If TF-IDF a short text document such as Thesis Title, will not perfect score from Because IDF calculate weight of words that always appear be few, ICF often...