OBJECTIVES This study aims to test the hypothesis that gallstone disease (GSD) is a risk factor for the development of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL). Research has shown risks of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events in patients with GSD; however, well-conducted English studies on the association between GSD and the development of ISSNHL are lacking. DESIGN AND SETT...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 1 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 1 I E E E Software engineers have recognized the profound influence of business globalization for some time, generating alarmist reactions in some quarters and moving others to try to capture and emulate models that have met with success. More recently, attention has turned toward trying to understand the factors that enable multinationals and virtual...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 1 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 1 I E E E Working in a global context has its advantages, but it also has drawbacks. On the plus side, you gain time-zone effectiveness and reduced cost in various countries. However, working on a globally distributed project means operating costs for planning and managing people, along with language and cultural barriers. It also creates jealousy as ...

Glycogen storage diseases (GSDs) are a group of inherited metabolic disorders characterized by accumulation of abnormal glycogen in muscle or liver or both. Specific hepatic complications include liver adenomas and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Hepatocellular carcinomas described in GSD type I are often due to the degeneration of liver adenomas. Hepatocellular carcinoma in GSD type III, howev...

Hepatocellular adenoma (HCA) is a frequent long-term complication of glycogen storage disease type I (GSD I) and malignant transformation to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is known to occur in some cases. However, the molecular pathogenesis of tumor development in GSD I is unclear. This study was conducted to systematically investigate chromosomal and genetic alterations in HCA associated with ...

Digital terrain model (DTM) generation is essential to recreating morphology once the external elements are removed. Traditional survey methods still used collect accurate geographic data on land surface. Given emergence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with low-cost digital cameras and better photogrammetric for mapping, efficient approaches necessary allow rapid surveys high accura...

In this work, we present a method to the building of a global hierarchical classification of the proteins functions for a structure of classes represented by a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph), called RCMDE-GSD (Rule Construction Method Using Differential Evolution-Global Single DAG). Here, we compare RCMDE-GSD with hAntMiner, a method based on ACO (Ant Colony Optimization) algorithm and with HLCS,...