BACKGROUND The Lyme Disease Treatment Guidelines, authored by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), are currently undergoing review. While there are multiple perspectives regarding the best treatment protocols for Lyme disease, and two professional medical societies that specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease, the CDC and the nation's insurance companies have his...

In a previous paper that we co-authored (Ozisik et al. 2021) showed in some cases Vitamin A and D receptor binding sites are present genes associated with Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney Urinary Tract (CAKUT). From finding derived statement sometimes targets same as CAKUT. We here formalization claim, stating all things class “genes CAKUT” have relation type “is as” to thing “targets vitamin...

In the Fall of 2002, Joffroy Beauquier and Colette Johnen (at the Université Paris-Sud) organized an International Seminar on Self-Stabilization at Luminy, France. The seminar, which was sponsored by the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, was a great success uncovering new research directions concerning the self-stabilization of network protocols and distributed systems. As it ha...

This paper investigates the geographical and organizational patterns of scientific collaboration, in terms of co-authored scientific articles, in the Danish-German border region of Southern Jutland-Schleswig. The motivation behind the approach lies in the fact that scientific collaboration in border regions, in general, and the studied region, in particular, has rarely been discussed in the aca...

Acknowledgments: Parts of this conference background paper were modified from a conference background paper entitled “Rural Health Professionals” that was presented at the Rural Health Research Agenda Setting Conference hosted by the National Rural Health Association, Washington, DC, August 13, 2000 (authors: Drs. Gary Hart, Edward Salsberg and Debra Phillips). I acknowledge the contributions o...

This paper presents a model in which agents are distinguished by their characteristics, exchange of goods requires communication between firms and their customers, and agents with similar characteristics communicate more effectively. This setup delivers a body of testable implications about the matching of workers to jobs, the associated wages and product prices, and the manner in which job ass...

In this paper we discuss work in progress regarding the integration of learning analytics and learning design in the frame of the Integrated Learning Design Environment (ILDE). ILDE is a community platform where teachers can design learning activities using multiple authoring tools. Authoring tools can be generic, meaning that designs authored can be deployed in multiple learning systems, or sp...