Older studies have proved that when searching information on the Web, users tend to write short queries, unconsciously trying to minimize the cognitive load. However, as these short queries are very ambiguous, search engines tend to find the most popular meaning – someone who does not know anything about cascading stylesheets might search for a music band called css and be very surprised about ...

The main concern of this study was communication strategies (CSs) which are used to compensate for communication breakdown. The goals of this study were to examine whether proficiency level of Iranian students had any relationship with their choice of CSs. This research was descriptive in nature. The participants were 15 pre-intermediate and 14 intermediate EFL learners between 16 to 21years ol...

SIR, Churg Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a systemic vasculitis with eosinophilia, associated with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) in 40% of patients. Its pathophysiology remains unknown, but activated eosinophils could be the effector cells in this vasculitis. We report the case of a patient with CSS who responded well to a prolonged course of imatinib mesylate, suggesting the pathog...

Welcome to this special theme issue of Seminars in Thrombosis &Hemostasis on “clinical scoring systems in thrombosis and hemostasis.” Clinical scoring systems (CSSs) are known by many other names including clinical prediction rules, clinical decision rules, probability assessments, prediction models, and risk scores.1 Nomatter which term is used, CSSs are tools that quantify the individual cont...

The minimum crossing number problem is among the oldest and most fundamental problems arising in the area of automatic graph drawing. In this paper, eight population-based meta-heuristic algorithms are utilized to tackle the minimum crossing number problem for two special types of graphs, namely complete graphs and complete bipartite graphs. A 2-page book drawing representation is employed for ...

As the largest sector of the health professions in the United States with more than three million registered nurses, the world needs to hear our voices in forging a new vision in nursing education and nursing practice. Nursing education and practice is constantly evolving and Nursing 2013 is at the cutting edge of nursing. The purpose of this paper is to integrate Ethics, Legal and Sociocultura...