Current Opinion in Pediatrics 2008, 20:471–482 Purpose of review Mitochondrial diseases are a major category of childhood illness that produce a wide variety of symptoms and multisystemic disorders. This review highlights recent clinically important developments in diagnostic evaluation and treatment of mitochondrial diseases. Recent findings Major advances have been made in understanding the g...

Cross-Layer Performance Optimization in Wireless Local Area Networks

Rare diseases are characterised by their low prevalence (less than 1/2,000) and their heterogeneity. They affect both children and adults anywhere in the world. From the medical perspective, rare diseases are characterised by the large number and broad diversity of disorders and symptoms that vary not only from disease to disease, but also within the same disease. Main characteristics of rare d...

List Dete tion for Symmetri Multi-A ess Channels Aaron Reid1, Alex Grant Institute for Tele ommuni ations Resear h University of South Australia Mawson Lakes SA 5095 Australia e-mail: areid spri.levels.unisa.edu.au e-mail: alex.grant unisa.edu.au Paul Alexander Southern Poro Communi ations 6A Nelson Street Annandale NSW 2038 Australia e-mail: palex spri.levels.unisa.edu.au Abstra t | We propose...

In this chapter, we discuss an evaluation of a computerized information system in an elderly care unit. The evaluation is based on the concept of actability, which is a combination of theories from Human-Computer Interaction and the Language Action Perspective. The reason for uniting different theories is to obtain a more holistic evaluation model. The findings show that the evaluated system ha...

We present a simple, automatic method for extracting feature curves, called crest lines, from point clouds. Crest lines are surface shape features having a mathematical background. Given an unstructured point cloud as input, we pre-process the data to generate some topological information by creating an undirectional surface graph. The method starts with the approximation of normal curvature on...