Making the link between architectural decisions and system concerns explicit is a major contribution that patterns can make. Over the past decade, there have been several efforts to close the gap between requirements and architecture by using patterns. In this paper, our goal is to take a step back and survey these different contributions, as well as related efforts in other communities (such a...

background:  this study tested the null hypothesis that nonoperatively treated patients would not show disease progression of carpal tunnel syndrome (cts) over time according to median nerve distal motor latency (dml) on two electrodiagnostic tests.   methods:  this retrospective study analyzed sixty-two adult nonoperatively treated patients who were diagnosed with cts confirmed by a minimum of...

exosomes, as a mediator of cell-to-cell transfer of genetic information, act an important role in intercommunication between tumor cells and their niche including fibroblasts, endothelial cells, adipocytes and monocytes. several studies have shown that tumor cells can influence their neighboring cells by releasing exosomes. these exosomes provide signaling cues for stimulation, activation, prol...

We present SexTant, a Web-based system for the visualization and exploration of time-evolving linked geospatial data and the creation, sharing, and collaborative editing of “temporally-enriched” thematic maps which are produced by combining different sources of such data.

In this paper, fuzzy-based multisensor data fusion is studied and an iterative fuzzy classifier is proposed. Obtained results are given as a set of two maps: a thematic map, and a confidence map (a classification certainty map representing the degree of certainty in the thematic map). The application of this classifier using ERS-1/JERS-1 SAR composites is shown to very promising.

Although mean physical activity in COPD patients declines by 400–500 steps/day annually, it is unknown whether the natural progression same for all patients. We aimed to identify distinct patterns using a hypothesis-free approach and assess their determinants. pooled data from two cohorts (usual care arm of Urban Training [ NCT01897298 ] PROactive initial validation NCT01388218 studies) measuri...