European Journal of Information Systems (2007) 16, 103–105. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000678 According to a report by Kable (a leading provider of public sector research), U.K. central government information and communication technology (ICT) spend, which represents one of the largest in the world, will grow by 21% over the next 3 years reaching d3.2 billion by 2007/2008 and is expected to rea...

The complexity of numerical domain partitioning depends on the number of potential cut points. In multiway partitioning this dependency is often quadratic, even exponential. Therefore, reducing the number of candidate cut points is important. For a large family of attribute evaluation functions only boundary points need to be considered as candidates. We prove that an even more general property...

We thank Drs Phillips and Senaratne for their inquiry about the potential association of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in pregnancy with intrahepatic cholestasis (ICP) our study cohort.[1]Sarkar M. Grab J. Dodge J.L. Gunderson E.P. Rubin Irani R.A. et al.Non-alcoholic is associated adverse maternal perinatal outcomes.J Hepatol. 2020; 73: 516-522Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (...

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Hypertrophy and hyperplasia of vascular smooth muscle cells are hallmarks of the common vascular disorders of atherosclerosis, restenosis, and hypertension and contribute to their long-term sequelae. Angiotensin II (Ang II) is a potent smooth muscle mitogen and hypertrophic agent. The importance of Ang II in the pathogenesis of vascular disease is reflected in the efficacy of angiotensin-conver...

Atherosclerosis is, in large part, an inflammatory process. White blood cells of different lineages are essential components of the atherosclerotic plaque. More important than their numbers, white blood cells influence the structure of an atherosclerotic plaque, and the function of the vessel in which the plaque is present, by secreting a host of agents that affect resident vascular cells.1 Mac...

ICT enables business-to-government (b-to-g) information exchange, which can be used to enhance control and compliance by businesses. However, sharing information can cause resistance by businesses, as for them information is key to competitive advantage, whereas governments need this information to conduct their tasks at lower costs. In this paper, the adoption of a b-to-g information-sharing p...

1 Fleming DM, Crombie DL. Prevalence of asthma and hayfever in England and Wales. BMJ 1987;294:279-83. 2 Strachen DP. Hayfever and household size. BMJ 1989;299:1259-60. 3 Frick OL. Effect of respiratory and other virus infections on IgE immunoregulation. J Allergy Clin Immunol 1986;78:1013-8. 4 Welliver RC, Kaul TN, Ogra PL. The appearance of cell-bound IgE in respiratory tract epithelium after...

This tutorial is an introduction to jsPsych, which is a free and open-source software package for creating experiments that run in a web browser. Participants in the tutorial will learn how to build an experiment using jsPsych, and how to extend and customize jsPsych for novel experimental paradigms. Running experiments online is a popular method among cognitive scientists. Data collection is (...

This chapter addresses an open problem in visual motion analysis, the estimation of image motion in the vicinity of occlusion boundaries. With a Bayesian formulation, local image motion is explained in terms of multiple, competing, nonlinear models, including models for smooth (translational) motion and for motion boundaries. The generative model for motion boundaries explicitly encodes the ori...