Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a design pattern that presents systems as collection of reusable services that can be exposed and consumed on the Internet with standard interfaces has many advantages that can be achieved on technical, managerial, and implementation aspects of the system. Integrating University Management Information Systems (UMIS) and Learning Management Systems (LMS) ca...

Each learner has different preferences and needs. Therefore, it is very crucial to provide the different styles of learners with different learning environments that are more preferred and more efficient to them. This paper reports a study of the intelligent learning environment where the learner’s preferences are diagnosed, and then user interfaces are customized in an adaptive manner to accom...

OBJECTIVE To explore the risk factors of intra-abdominal bacterial infection (IAI) after liver transplantation (LT) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS A series of 82 HCC patients who received LT surgeries in our department between March 2004 and April 2010 was recruited in this study. Then we collected and analyzed the clinical data retrospectively. Statistical analysis ...

OBJECTIVE Recent observations have revealed an interaction between inflammation and angiogenesis, which may be mediated by angiopoietins and chemokines. Given the importance of inflammation in parturition, we sought to determine whether angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) is present in amniotic fluid (AF) and if its concentration changes with gestational age, labor, and in intra-amniotic infection/inflammat...

image classification is an issue which utilizes image processing, pattern recognition and classification methods. automatic medical image classification is a progressive area in image classification and it expected to be more developed in the future. due to this fact that automatic diagnosis which use intelligent methods such as medical image classification can assist pathologists by providing ...

and Applied Analysis 3 Proof. If we let h s ∑∞ n 1 ans n and substituting into 1.3 , we have α2 ∞ ∑ n 0 n 1 λ − 1 an 1s 2α ∞ ∑ n 1 ( n−1 ∑ i 0 i 1 ( λn−i − 1 )( λ − 1 ) an−iai 1 ) s ∞ ∑ n 2 ( n−2 ∑ i 0 n−i−1 ∑ k 1 i 1 ( λn−k−i − 1 )( λ − 1 )( λ − 1 ) an−k−iakai 1 ) s β ∞ ∑ n 1 ( n−1 ∑ i 0 i 1 ( λn−i − 1 )2 an−iai 1 ) s. 2.3 Comparing coefficients we obtain α2 ( λ0 − 1 ) a1 0, 2.4 α2 n 1 λ − 1 a...

Introduction Intra-abdominal infection (IAI) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. It is the second most commonly identified cause of severe sepsis in the intensive care unit (ICU). Recent studies have associated severe intra-abdominal infection with a significant mortality rate. Most IAI are a result of processes involving inflammation and perforations of the gastrointestinal tract...

PURPOSE Empirical antibiotics in complicated intra-abdominal infection (c-IAI), such as secondary peritonitis are a first step of treatment. Empirical antibiotic regimen is very diverse. Ceftriaxone plus metronidazole regimen (CMR) is one of the empirical antibiotic regimens used in treatment of c-IAI. However, although CMR is a widely used empirical antibiotic regimen, study regarding success,...

Address correspondence to: Dr. Alexander Apt, Department of Immunology, Central Institute for Tuberculosis, Yauza alley, 2, Moscow 107564, Russia. Fax: (7495) 963 80 00; Email: [email protected] AC CE PT ED Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. Infect. Immun. doi:10.1128/IAI.00482-07 IAI Accepts, published online ahead of pri...