cytomegalovirus is the most common viral infection after kidney transplantation. clinical presentations of cytomegalovirus infection range from asymptomatic infection to organ-specific involvement. most symptomatic infections manifest as fever and cytopenia. the gastrointestinal tract is the most common site of tissue-invasive infection, often presenting as diarrhea or gastrointestinal bleeding...

Recent research suggests that combining adaptive learning algorithms with perceptual learning (PL) methods can accelerate perceptual classification learning in complex domains (e.g., Mettler & Kellman, 2014). We hypothesized that passive presentation of category exemplars might act synergistically with active adaptive learning to further enhance PL. Passive presentation and active adaptive meth...

Dividable Dynamic Timeline (DDTL) was proposed in our previous work to address the non-deterministic temporal behavior in SMIL2.0 scripts. This paper presents the mechanisms for the reuse of SMIL2.0 scripts in authoring a new presentation. To reuse a SMIL2.0 script, the script must be converted to elements in DDTL. By the reuse of existing SMIL2.0 scripts and the flexible features of DDTL, an e...

This article proposes a framework that will help analyze current and future output multimodal user interfaces. We first define an output multimodal system. We then present our framework that identifies several different combinations of modalities and their characteristics. This framework assists in the selection of the most appropriate modalities for achieving efficient multimodal presentations...

Fast and Frugal Trees (FFTs) are a quintessential family of simple heuristics that allow effective and efficient binary classification decisions and often perform remarkably well when compared to more complex methods. This half-day tutorial will familiarize participants with examples of FFTs and elucidate the theoretical link between FFTs and signal detection theory (SDT). A range of presentati...

Varying methods exist for computing a presentation of a finitely generated commutative cancellative monoid.We use an algorithm of Contejean andDevie [An efficient incremental algorithm for solving systems of linear diophantine equations, Inform. andComput. 113 (1994) 143–172] to show how these presentations can be obtained from the nonnegative integer solutions to a linear system of equations. ...

Presenting features of HIV has always been a Pandora's box largely due to multisystem affection by the virus and a large array of opportunistic infections. We hereby report an extremely rare case of 40 yr old patient presenting as symmetric, progressive cerebellar ataxia later found to be HIV positive. Thorough knowledge of rare presentations of HIV and a high index of suspicion are necessary f...

The inter-individual variability of drug response is a major problem in clinical practice. It can lead to therapeutic failure or adverse effects of drugs (ADRs) in individuals or subpopulations of patients. Potential risk factors for drug inefficacy or toxicity include drug-drug interactions , the patient's age, renal and liver functions or other disease factors, and lifestyle variables such as...