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©2008 Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Reproduction without prior authorization is prohibited. 1 NOTICE OF PURPOSE: TEC Assessments are scientific opinions, provided solely for informational purposes. TEC Assessments should not be construed to suggest that the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program or the TEC Program recommends, advocates, requires, en...

This paper describes the Translational English Corpus (TEC) and the software tools developed in order to enable the use of the corpus remotely, over the internet. The model underlying these tools is based on an extensible client-server architecture implemented in Java. We discuss the data and processing constraints which motivated the TEC architecture design and its impact on the efficiency and...

©2010 Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Reproduction without prior authorization is prohibited. 1 NOTICE OF PURPOSE: TEC Assessments are scientific opinions, provided solely for informational purposes. TEC Assessments should not be construed to suggest that the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program or the TEC Program recommends, advocates, requires, en...

©2010 Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Reproduction without prior authorization is prohibited. 1 NOTICE OF PURPOSE: TEC Assessments are scientific opinions, provided solely for informational purposes. TEC Assessments should not be construed to suggest that the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program or the TEC Program recommends, advocates, requires, en...

©2006 Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Reproduction without prior authorization is prohibited. 1 NOTICE OF PURPOSE: TEC Assessments are scientific opinions, provided solely for informational purposes. TEC Assessments should not be construed to suggest that the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program or the TEC Program recommends, advocates, requires, en...

©2010 Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Reproduction without prior authorization is prohibited. 1 NOTICE OF PURPOSE: TEC Assessments are scientific opinions, provided solely for informational purposes. TEC Assessments should not be construed to suggest that the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program or the TEC Program recommends, advocates, requires, en...

Renal allograft rejection is characterized by an influx of inflammatory cells. Interaction between infiltrating T cells and resident parenchymal cells might play an important role in the ongoing inflammatory response. The present study demonstrates that CD40L, a product of activated T cells, is locally expressed in kidneys undergoing rejection. Furthermore, during rejection, CD40 expression not...

OBJECTIVE To examine the evolution of serum concentrations of prophylactic glycopeptides administered during state-of-the-art cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and vigorous haemodiafiltration in paediatric patients undergoing cardiac surgery. METHODS We enrolled infants and children <3 years of age who, based on the preoperative microbiological screening, age and surgical complexity, were at high ...

The International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) is an empirical model widely used to describe ionospheric characteristics. In the previous research, high-precision total electron content (TEC) data derived from global navigation satellite system (GNSS) were adjust index IG12 as a driving parameter in standard IRI model; thus, errors between IRI-TEC and GNSS-TEC minimized, was calibrated by modifyi...