BACKGROUND Mental stress and daily crises comprise a part of physical and mental threats. Perceived stress is a physical and mental threat, as well. Perceived stress is a psychological process during which the individual considers his/ her physical and psychological welfare as being threatened. Since idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is one of the chronic diseases being able to affect p...

Cardiovascular events are the most common cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world and myocardial infarction is the most common cause of these accidents. Myocardial infarction impairs the mechanical and electrical activity of the heart that these disorders predispose the patient to cardiac arrhythmias including ventricular tachycardia. QT dispersion is an important parameter to eva...

User modeling plays an important role in delivering customized web services to the users and improving their engagement. However, most user models in the literature do not explicitly consider the temporal behavior of users. More recently, continuous-time user modeling has gained considerable attention and many user behavior models have been proposed based on temporal point processes. However, t...

Il s'agit d'une étude observationnelle prospective colligée dans le service des soins intensifs et rythmologie de l'Hôpital militaire d'instruction Mohammed V de Rabat, entre décembre 2008 et décembre 2014, portant sur 424 patients hospitalisés pour insuffisance cardiaque. L'âge moyen était de 60,91±12,77 Les principaux facteurs de risque cardiovasculaires rencontrés étaient : l'hypertension ar...

1. Dorosz, S., Abubacker, S., Masala, N., Jay, G., Schmidt TA. Cartilage Boundary Lubricating Ability of Full-Length Human Recombinant PRG4 – Alone and in Combination with Hyaluronan. March 28-31, 2015. Las Vegas, NV. 2. Al-Sharif A., Schmidt T., Jay G., Elsaid K. Lubricin/Proteoglycan-4 Inhibits Proinflammatory Cytokine Induced Synoviocyte Proliferation via CD44-Interaction. Orthopedic Researc...

This article develops a map to analyze the dynamic forces that influence the structure and development of 3G (third generation) wireless communications value networks. The analysis builds on the Strategic Value Assessment Model (Fine, et al. [Fine, Charles H., Vardan, Roger, Pethick, Robert, El Hout, Jamal. Rapid-Response Capability in value chain Design. MIT Sloan Manage Rev 2002, 43(Winter): ...

This is a short tribute to Dr. Seyed Ali Fakhr Tabatabaei celebrating his excellent and fruitfull career in neurosurgical practice and mentorship. 

In this paper we introduce the SpeakCorrect system which is a Computer Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT) system for native Arabic students of English. The system is designed with optimized performance for the target users group. It is L1 dependent system and only the frequent pronunciation errors of native Arabic speakers are examined. Several adaptation techniques such as Speaker Adaptive Tr...

BACKGROUND Palliative care is an approach that has been used to care for terminally ill patients. The current study was performed to assess the association between the status of patient dignity and quality of life (QOL) in Iranian terminally ill patients with cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive correlational study was conducted on 210 end-stage cancer patients (102 men and 108 wome...

Neutron diffraction measurements for D(2)O in SBA-15 silica of pore diameter 86 Å have been made in a temperature range from 300 to 100 K. The pore-filling factor for the liquid phase is 0.95, resulting in an 'almost-filled' sample. The nucleation and transformation of the ice phase were determined for cooling and warming cycles at two different rates. The primary nucleation event at 258 K lead...