Son iki yüzyılda teknolojik araçlar sürekli bir şekilde gelişmektedir. zamanlardaki değişim önceki dönemlere göre çok daha hızlı olmaktadır. Özellikle son 20 yılda dijital iletişim araçları ve internet insanların çoğunun hayatına girmeye başladı gün geçtikçe bunların hayatındaki etkisi artmaktadır. Akıllı telefonlar vasıtasıyla çocuklar gençlerin yanı sıra çoğu da dünya ile karşı karşıya kalmak...

TAMBARAM KAILASAM, GAYATHRI. Efficient Skycube Computation using Bitmaps derived from Indexes. (Under the direction of Dr. Jaewoo Kang.) Skyline queries have been increasingly used in multi-criteria decision making and data mining applications. They retrieve a set of interesting points from a potentially large set of data points. A point is said to be interesting if it is as good or better in a...

Collections of annotations need indexes for certain of their properties. When we have a set of created annotations, we want to be able to ask questions concerning these properties such as: agency: "Who said this?"; timing: "is this the most recent annotation about this object?"; the annotated object itself: "What annotations have been made about this object?"; and content: "Which objects which ...

extended abstract 1. introduction currently the study of urban exhausted tissues is one of the major issues in urban policies as well as the contemporary urban planning in iran. lack of attention to exhausted tissues results in the growth of these tissues and the remove of local residents from these areas over time. therefore, the problem of identifying the type of exhausted tissues based on ap...

Practitioners and investigators often view clinical trials from very different perspectives-the former in terms of individuals and the latter in terms of groups. The following whimsical dialogue highlights the philosophical foundations of these contrasting perspectives and illustrates their potential impact on patient care and public policy. The title alludes to a piece by Lewis Carroll regardi...

background: health is a national priority and it is always a duty of the government to establish a good and fair health system. the national heath care system reform program and evaluation of health system reform plan funding these programs were enforced by the honorable minister of health and medical education on may 5th, 2014. given the importance of this issue, the present study was conducte...

BACKGROUND Regional left ventricular (LV) diastolic wall motion abnormalities detected by color kinesis (CK), an echocardiographic technique, may be a more sensitive measure to postischemic damage following coronary spasm than parameters of global diastolic function. METHODS AND RESULTS Regional LV diastolic wall motion was evaluated by using CK in 18 patients with variant angina on the day f...

Preventing transmission of H1N1 and other infectious diseases can require individuals to change behaviors, but recommendations to change behavior can run counter to other powerful influences. For example, instructions to not shake hands or avoid certain public gatherings can run counter to substantial social pressures to shake hands or be in attendance. These behavioral conflicts are illustrate...