Background and Objectives Infective endocarditis (IE) is a microbial infection of the endothelial surface of the cardiac-valves. Rapid diagnosis, effective treatment and prompt recognition of complications are essential, in order to improve the outcome. We retrospectively reviewed and determined the clinical characteristics, microbiological profile and management strategies of IE cases, changin...

Social network analysis (SNA) is based on a conceptual network representation of social interactions and is an invaluable tool for conservation professionals to increase collaboration, improve information flow, and increase efficiency. We present two approaches to constructing internet-based social networks, and use an existing traditional (survey-based) case study to illustrate in a familiar c...

In recent years, email is the basic service for person to person communication, and email facilitates by its high speed, and process ability. The email malware exhibits two new propagation features; reinfection and self-start. Reinfection is the process by which an infected user sends out malware copies, whenever the infected user opens the malicious hyperlink or attachment. Self-Start is the p...

In this contribution we consider the construction of hyperdocuments; converting scanned paper documents into electronic hypertext. Hyperlink creation is automated by analyzing the structure and content of the scanned document. The focus is on hyperlinks between the text and labels in a picture. A number of tools for such hyperlink detection are described. Practical results are presented.

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to report demographic trends in terms ethnicity/race and gender among the membership leadership positions Arthroscopy Association North America (AANA) American Orthopaedic Society Sports Medicine (AOSSM). Over years both AANA AOSSM will increase diversity through their committee positions.MethodsAANA were reviewed for 2010, 2015, 2020. Race/ethnicity divided...

The standard design of on-line auction systems places most of the computational load on the server and its adjacent links, resulting in a bottleneck in the system. In this paper, we investigate the impact, in terms of the performance of the server and its adjacent links, of introducing active nodes into the network. The performance study of the system is done using the stochastic process algebr...

We evolve network topology of an asymmetrically connected threshold network by a simple local rewiring rule: quiet nodes grow links, active nodes lose links. This leads to convergence of the average connectivity of the network towards the critical value K(c) = 2 in the limit of large system size N. How this principle could generate self-organization in natural complex systems is discussed for t...