Now, thirty-two years after graduating from the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing (BS ‘84) in my hometown of Richmond, I can safely say that the single most important course I took in nursing school was not in nursing. Rather, it was a health humanities and medical ethics course taught in the School of Medicine by a hospital chaplain, Reverend Bob Yo...

In a typical organizational scenario, hundreds of personal computers (PCs) are used mainly for simple office tasks. Typically, a central database management system (DBMS) receives requests internally or externally through an Internet connection that serves as a backend of Web services. The unpredictability and fluctuations of requests could result in the overload of the DBMS. Existing load mana...

This Research is under the title (The Poems and feeling of responsibility in Haji Qadiry Koy's Poems). It a philosophical Critical research that on basis existence philosophy there will be explanations for some poems this unique Poet, We point out main ideas these Poems. clear people live within society, any phenomenon or anyone Society attracts others attention poets are more Passionate than a...

PURPOSE To evaluate the cranial pachymeningeal involvement of polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, skin changes (POEMS) syndrome using pre- and post-contrast fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) and T1-weighted imaging (T1WI). METHODS The appearance of pachymeningeal involvement in nine cases of POEMS syndrome was evaluated using pre- and post-contrast F...

BACKGROUND Plain language search tools for MEDLINE/PubMed are few. We wanted to develop a search tool that would allow anyone using a free-text, natural language query and without knowing specialized vocabularies that an expert searcher might use, to find relevant citations in MEDLINE/PubMed. This tool would translate a question into an efficient search. RESULTS The accuracy and relevance of ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effectiveness of Preventing Obesity by Design (POD), a childcare center outdoor renovation intervention. DESIGN Pre-post intervention evaluation. SETTING North Carolina licensed childcare centers (N = 27). SUBJECTS Preschool children. INTERVENTION Outdoor renovation, teacher training. MEASURES Behavior mapping, Preschool Outdoor Environment Measurement Scale (P...

This paper tries to find out five poets’ (Thomas Hardy, Wilde, Browning, Yeats, and Tagore) differences and similarities through analyzing their works on nineteenth Century by using natural language understanding technology and word vector model. Firstly, we collect enough poems from these five poets, build five corpus respectively, and calculate their high-frequency words, by using Natural Lan...

POEMS syndrome is a rare clonal plasma cell disorder without standard treatment. Based on the efficacy and low toxicity of a combination of melphalan and dexamethasone (MDex) for light chain amyloidosis, we conducted a prospective study of MDex treatment for patients with newly diagnosed POEMS syndrome. Thirty-one patients (19 men) were enrolled and the median age at the time of diagnosis was 4...

Correspondence: Giuseppe Longo, M.D., Department of Medical Sciences Section of Internal Medicine, University of Modena, via del Pozzo 71, 41100 Modena, Italy. Phone: international +39-059-422782 – Fax: international +39-059-424549 – E-mail: [email protected] The so-called POEMS syndrome is a multisystemic disorder characterized by the association of polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy an...

POEMS syndrome is a paraneoplastic syndrome whose acronym stands for less than half of the defining features of the disease, that is, polyradiculoneuropathy, organomegaly, potentially including coexisting Castleman disease, endocrinopathy, monoclonal plasma cell neoplasm, and skin changes. The other important features include papilledema, extravascular volume overload, sclerotic bone lesions, t...