PURPOSE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of surgeon's superior sitting position during temporal clear corneal incision (TCCI) phacoemulsification, with a 90° working angle, during combined phacovitrectomy. METHODS Prospective interventional case series were performed on 65 eyes of 63 patients. TCCI phacoemulsification was done in all cases (whether right or left eyes), while the surgeon wa...

This paper describes the participation of a combined approach in GeoCLEF-2006. We have participated in Monolingual English Task and we present joint work of the three groups or teams belonging to the project R2D2 4 with a new system, combining the three individual systems of these teams. We consider that research in the area of GIR is still in its very early stages, therefore, although a voting...

This paper describes an abstract problem derived from a combination of Siemens product configuration problems encountered in practice. Often isolated parts of configuration problems can be solved by mapping them to well-studied problems for which efficient heuristics exist (graph coloring, bin-packing, etc.). Unfortunately, these heuristics may fail to work when applied to a problem that combin...

A balancing problem for transfer lines with workstations in series and simultaneously executed blocks of operations is considered. Inclusion constraints related to operations and exclusion constraints with regard to blocks as well as precedence constraints are given. The problem is to choose blocks from a given set and to assign them to workstations while minimizing the line cost and satisfying...

Fifty-six patients with untreated small cell carcinoma of the bronchus were treated with three courses of chemotherapy (cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and procarbazine and methotrexate) and assessed for response. Thirty-one patients (55.4%) were classified as responders; they were given a course of radiotherapy and were then randomly allocated to continued cyclical chemotherapy or not further c...

Survival of IT industries depends much upon the development of high quality and customer satisfied software products. Quality however can be viewed from various perspectives such as deployment of the products within estimated resources, constrains and also being defect free. Testing is one of the promising techniques ever since the inception of software in the global market. Though there are se...

Survival of IT industries depends much upon the development of high quality and customer satisfied software products. Quality however can be viewed from various perspectives such as deployment of the products within estimated resources, constrains and also being defect free. Testing is one of the promising techniques ever since the inception of software in the global market. Though there are se...

Well-being at work is a major occupational health and safety issue for nurses. Past research shows that investigation of the well-being nurses requires multi-faceted approach which considers range predictors outcomes. Research on topics such as stress fatigue show combining risk factors leads to best predictor these negative outcomes, similar results have been found positive Organisational fact...