BACKGROUND Intussusception is a form of intestinal obstruction in which a segment of the bowel prolapses into a more distal segment. Our investigation began on May 27, 1999, after nine cases of infants who had intussusception after receiving the tetravalent rhesus-human reassortant rotavirus vaccine (RRV-TV) were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. METHODS In 19 states, we...

this study examines the educational ideas of zoroastrianism based on gathas. for achieving this purpose, the conclusion method has been used; firstly, zoroaster has been introduced then the philosophical foundations of the religion have been formulized in the form of ideal human being and his/her features. finally, the implications of these foundations are presented in the form of educational c...

I. INTRODUCTION We humans tend to worry first about our own happiness, then about our families, then about our communities. In times of great stress, such as war or natural disaster, we may focus temporarily on our country but we rarely think about Earth as a whole or the human species as a whole. This narrow perspective, perhaps best exemplified by the American consumer, has led to the environ...

“The Mobile Office” Image courtesy of Charis Tsevis (tsevis.com) Invited Speaker Ann Cavoukian Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world’s leading privacy experts. She is presently the Executive Director of the Privacy and Big Data Institute at Ryerson University. Appointed as the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario , Canada in 1997, Dr. Cavoukian served an unprecedented t...

We examined whether interpersonal closeness increases salivary progesterone. One hundred and sixty female college students (80 dyads) were randomly assigned to participate in either a closeness task with a partner versus a neutral task with a partner. Those exposed to the closeness induction had higher levels of progesterone relative to those exposed to the neutral task. Across conditions, prog...

The female and male of Dasybasis (Agelanius) cortesi, new species, is described and illustrated from specimens collected in the National Reserve of Río Clarillo, Cordillera Province, Central Chile. Its relationships to other Dasybasis species are discussed.

A hot-issued research topic in the workflow intelligence arena is the emerging topic of “workflow-supported organizational social networks.” These specialized social networks have been proposed to primarily represent the process-driven work-sharing and work-collaborating relationships among the workflow-performers fulfilling a series of workflow-related operations in a workflow-supported organi...

We propose a method for the Distributed Assessment of the Closeness CEntrality Ranking (DACCER) in complex networks. DACCER computes centrality based only on localized information restricted to a given neighborhood around each node, thus not requiring full knowledge of the network topology. We show that the node centrality ranking computed by DACCER is highly correlated with the node ranking ba...

The use of predefined phrase patterns like: N-grams (N>=2), longest common sub sequences or pre defined linguistic patterns etc do not give any credit to non-matching/smaller-size useful patterns and thus, may result in loss of information. Next, the use of 1-gram based model results in several noisy matches. Additionally, due to presence of more than one topic with different levels of importan...