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Preschool wheeze is very common and often difficult to treat. Most children do not require any investigations; only a detailed history physical examination ensure an alternative diagnosis being missed; the differential diagnosis, hence investigation protocols for child in whom major illness suspected, shows geographical variation. The pattern of symptoms may be divided into episodic viral multi...

We describe an ontological approach for determining the relevance of documents based on the underlying concept of exploiting complex semantic relationships among real-world entities. This research builds upon semantic metadata extraction and annotation, practical domain-specific ontology creation, main-memory query processing, and the notion of semantic association. A prototype application illu...

Dorothea Orem, RN, MSN, Ed, FAAN, began to develop foundations for the selfcare deficit theory of nursing in the 1950s, when the curriculums of most nursing education programs were based on conceptual models from medicine, psychology, and sociology. Thus, Orem is a pioneer in the development of distinctive nursing knowledge. The development of the self-care deficit theory of nursing has been de...

nodular fasciitis of the breast is a rare benign pathology of soft tissue that is a consequence of fibroblastic hyperplasia within breast. it can mimic breast cancer clinically, radiologically, and histopathologically. a-43 year-old female with a painless mass within upper-lateral quadrant of her left breast complained of rapid and progressive growth during previous few days. no evidence of nip...

the symptoms of today’s disease can help scientist to take a diagnostic approach toward those of the ancient times. the knowledge of the survey of disease in the ancient times is called pathology. ancient pathology focuses on the source, evolution and progression of diseases in the human groups in history. in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a lot of precise and detailed descriptiv...

A important problem in many areas of complex information processing is to integrate heterogeneous information from different sources. For handwriting recognition we accomplished such an integration through an agent architecture of three co-operating agents. One agent represents the bottom-up knowledge as generated by a shape-based classifier of unistrokes. The second agent contains top-down (sy...

Training in patient safety, quality, and management is widely recognized as an important element of graduate medical education. These concepts have been intertwined in pathology graduate medical education for many years, although training programs face challenges in creating explicit learning opportunities in these fields. Tangibly involving pathology residents in management and quality improve...