in recent years, work for the information profession has become characterized by fast-paced change and new skills requirements. this transformation has been brought about by the constant emergence of relevant new technologies. in this paper, ict skills for professionals in developing countries are examined and nigeria research project is mentioned as an example. one of the important implication...

In this paper, generalized R ′ -implications are introduced and studied. Although they not always fuzzy implications, the sufficient necessary condition such that a id="M2"> -operation is implication discovered proved. The satisfaction or violation of some basic...

* HIV infected blood may still be transfused in Africa because of lack of access to HIV testing, lack of adequate laboratory quality control, and from donors being in the seroconversion period * Donor deferral has not been thought feasible in Africa because heterosexual transmission accounts for most cases of HIV infection, making risk groups difficult to identify * Not everyone is at equal ris...

In this article we apply a method for presenting numeric predicates as a closed set of ’closed sets’ associated with the objects instead of a closed set of attributes associated with a set of objects. In order to derive additional knowledge from a dataset we introduce a new measure called ’distance’ that emphasises changes in attribute values. Key–Words: Decision support services, uncertainty m...

Developing pharmacotherapies to treat alcohol dependence and associated health problems traditionally has been based on gaining a better understanding of the neuroscience underlying alcohol-drinking behavior. To date, three medications have been approved for the treatment of alcohol dependence: disulfiram (Antabuse®), naltrexone (Revia®, Vivitrol®, and Naltrel®), and acamprosate (Campral®). How...

A left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is intended for use as a temporary bridge to transplantation in patients with end-stage cardiac failure until a donor heart becomes available. This case report discusses the anesthetic management of a patient undergoing implantation of an LVAD. Tremendous advances have been made in cardiac transplantation; however, there is an acute donor shortage in the ...

* Tinea pedis (athlete's foot) occurs in about 15% ofthe population * Its usual treatment is a topical antifungal applied two or three times a day for up to four weeks * Terbinafine is a synthetic allylamine antifungal with a primarily fungicidal action against dermatophytes and some other moulds and yeasts * This study shows that terbinafine 1% cream applied twice daily for a week was signific...

* Young adults and children now commonly survive treatment for cancer and subsequently want to have a family * Many fear that the toxic treatment they received for cancer will affect their children * This study shows that the risk of having a child with congenital anomalies was not increased among parents who had been treated for cancer * For live births there was no relation between increasing...

T he pump performance of the left ventricle (LV) depends on its ability to cycle between two states: 1) a compliant chamber in diastole that allows the LV to fill from a low left atrial pressure and 2) a stiff chamber in systole that ejects the stroke volume at arterial pressure. The transitions from diastole to systole (contraction) and from systole to diastole (relaxation) are essential for t...

A new family of implication operators, called probabilistic implications, is introduced. The suggested implications are based on conditional copulas and make a bridge between probability theory and fuzzy logic. It is shown that some well-known fuzzy implications appear as a particular probabilistic implications. Therefore, it seems that this new family of implication operators might be a useful...