risk factors for Fulminant Hepatic Failure (FHF) in (37.50%), and grade 2 in 25 (31.25%). Forty five children at a tertiary care hospital, Sukkur. (56.25%) patients expired. Patients with bilirubin Methodology: Retrospective review of patients 13.0±8.0 mg/dl vs 6.7±3.3 mg/dl recovered. ALT 1-14years, admitted with FHF from July 2007 to was lower in expired patients 467±381 IU/L vs June 2012, at...

BACKGROUND National guidelines on MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) screening policy in England have changed on a number of occasions, but there is limited data on its influence at a local level. The aim of this study was to determine if changes in National policy influenced preoperative screening of cataract patients for MRSA. METHODS A structured telephone survey was conduc...

BACKGROUND Daptomycin appears well tolerated and effective for osteomyelitis treatment. However, limited data exist regarding daptomycin use for treatment of device-associated osteomyelitis (DAO). METHODS We used a retrospective, observational database (Cubicin® Outcomes Registry and Experience [CORE® 2007-2009]) that assessed patients treated with daptomycin to evaluate the characteristics o...

Bosh, A Zisserman and X. Munoz, 2007, Image classification using random forests and ferns" In Proc. ICCV. S. Bak, E. Corvee, F. Bremond, M. Thonnat, ,2010, Person re-identification using spatial covariance regions of human body parts," Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), Nashville, pp. 435-440. G. Burghouts, J. -...

Introduced into the Social Security program in 1939, spouse and survivor benefits have important implications for the retirement experience of women. At the end of 2005, 12.9 million women Social Security beneficiaries aged 62 or older (59 percent) received at least part of their benefit as wives or widows of entitled workers.1 For these women, a spouse or widow benefit provided a larger paymen...

This paper presents an automatic extraction and classification approach of opinions in texts. Therefore, we propose a similarity measurement calculating semantically similarities between a word and predefined subgroups of seed words. We have evaluated our approach on the semantic evaluation company "SemEval 2007" corpus, and we obtained promising results: the best value of Precision, 62%; and F...