Various different systems have been proposed to classify diabetic foot ulcers, but none has gained widespread acceptance. The International Working Group of the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) developed a classification system for research purposes, which is described in this report. In this PEDIS system, all foot ulcers should be classified according to five categories: perfusion, extent/size, depth/tis...

In this paper we propose a new distance measure between two preorders where the indifference, strict preference, weak preference and incomparability relations are considered. This distance measure is then used in the aggregation stage of a multiple criteria aggregation procedure for mixed evaluations designed to deal with different kinds of information imperfections. Introducing the weak prefer...

Current clinical approaches to melanoma diagnosis have not been associated with a decrease in mortality from this cancer. The components of the new approach presented are, first, a screening examination to look for any lesion that stands out because of being dark, different, or changing; second, when a single lesion is recognized to be of concern for any reason, that lesion is then evaluated in...

In 1997 the European Commission published Radiation Protection 91: 'Criteria for acceptability of radiological (including radiotherapy) and nuclear medicine installations'. This document specified the minimum criteria for acceptability. It has been used to this effect in legislation, codes of practice and by individual professionals. In a single document, it defined a level of performance at wh...

Ultrasonography (US) is widely used in the diagnosis of rheumatic conditions, and its value for the classification criteria of rheumatic diseases has been recently suggested. According to the EULAR/ACR provisional criteria for polymyalgia rheumatica, adding US to the clinical and serological features will significantly improve the sensitivity of proposed criteria. The ability of high resolution...

Although living adult Wuchereria bancrofti worms can be detected by ultrasound examination of the scrotal area in approximately 80% of men infected with this filarial parasite, the location of the adult worms in the remaining 20% remains unclear. To determine this, 32 individuals who had W. bancrofti microfilaraemia but no adult worms detectable on ultrasound were treated with diethylcarbarmazi...

“Scrap Your Boilerplate” (SYB) is an established style of generic functional programming. The present paper reconstructs SYB within the Prolog language with the help of the univ operator and higher-order logic programming techniques. We pay attention to the particularities of Prolog. For instance, we deal with traversal of non-ground terms. We also develop an alternative model of SYB-like trave...

the derakhte senged area is located in south of neishaboor town at khorasan razavi province. in this research, desertification intensity of derakht senged area was evaluated using imdpa, one of the newest method to assess desertification potential in arid and semi arid regions of iran. to evaluate desertification intensity, based on the primary research in this area, 4 criteria were selected in...