BACKGROUND Owing to the rarity, the general demographics, basic clinico-pathologic features, management, outcome and prognostic factors of spindle cell carcinoma (SpCC) were unexplored. METHODS A SEER analysis was performed with 2336 cases (1973-2016). RESULTS A peak incidence occurred at 70~80 years without any gender predominance and 83.13% occurred in white people. The respiratory system...

One should expect the unexpected when deploying intelligent tutoring systems. This paper describes a case study in collecting, warehousing, and analyzing field usage data from two language and culture learning environments, to understand what happened when they were deployed. A data warehousing system, Hoahu, was used to process the raw data and transform it into a relational database to facili...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the predictors of nurse actions in response to a mobile health decision-support system (mHealth DSS) for guideline-based screening and management of tobacco use. DESIGN Observational design focused on an experimental arm of a randomized, controlled trial. SETTING Acute and ambulatory care settings in the New York City metropolitan area. SAMPLE 14,115 patient...

The session initiation protocol is one the most popular protocols that is used in Internet protocol multimedia subsystems and adopted by a wide range of networking vendors. This research suggests a secure distributed session initiation protocol-based architectural model that can be deployed in service provider data centers to maintain the service availability, scalability, and security. This re...

In an environment in which systems are configured by reusing existing subsystems, the determination of complete and consistent configurations is a non-trivial and errorprone task, although considerable information about the subsystems may already be available from previous configurations. The Configuration Management Assistant is a tool that supports tracking and exploiting such information in ...

In this study a business game is used as a vehicle for implementing decision support systems (DSS). Eighteen companies, consisting of ninety graduating M.B.A. students, participating in a business game were required to develop DSS and to report on the systems developed. Each of the eighteen companies developed a system of their own choosing, without external guidance. Individual questionnaires ...

Problem solving and learning processes conducted on the basis of contemporary Webbased DSS provide for development and enhancement of knowledge management systems. Knowledge objects form the foundation of the conceptual approach to the knowledge management based on the contemporary Internet technologies and knowledge accumulated in DSS.

OBJECTIVE To characterize complications of prostate cancer therapy and operative management in patients referred to our institution for surgical intervention. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data was abstracted from a retrospectively collected single surgeon database at a large tertiary care referral-based medical center. Variables included age, prostate cancer therapy, complication(s) and their manage...

BACKGROUND Inflammatory bowel disease is characterized by persistent inflammation of the intestinal tissues. Although the usage of biologics has greatly enhanced the management of this disorder, a permanent treatment does not exist. In this study, we investigated whether the cells with anti-inflammatory and healing properties from the omentum could be harnessed to treat colitis in dextran sulfa...