The Rule Responder SymposiumPlanner system supports topic-oriented collaboration between the distributed members of a virtual organization. Each member (or small team of members) is assisted by a semi-autonomous rule-based personal agent, which uses Semantic Web rules to capture aspects of the member’s (or team’s) derivation and reaction logic. SymposiumPlanner is a series of Rule Responder use...

Patients with low cardiac function are at high risk for ventricular arrhythmia (VA). Previous studies showed that resynchronization therapy (CRT) improved left remodeling and CRT responder had lower of VA than non-responder. However, little is known about the among or without history VA. The purpose this study to investigate association between response patients Among our cohort 497 consecutive...

We consider the following searching game: there are two players, say Questioner and Responder. Responder chooses a number x ∈ Sn = {1, 2, . . . , n}, Questioner has to find out the number x by asking bi-interval queries and Responder is allowed to lie at most two times throughout the game. The minimal number q(n) of bi-interval queries sufficient to find the unknown integer x is determined for ...

Combination therapy with pegylated interferon and ribavirin is considered the new standard therapy for naïve patients with chronic hepatitis C. We evaluated the efficacy and safety of treatment with weight-based peginterferon alpha-2b (1.5 mg/kg per week) plus ribavirin (800-1,200 mg/day) for 48 weeks in naïve, relapser and non-responder (to previous treatment with interferon plus ribavirin) pa...

BACKGROUND Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) can improve ventricular size, shape, and mass and reduce mitral regurgitation by reverse remodeling of the failing ventricle. About 30% of patients do not respond to this therapy for unknown reasons. In this study, we aimed at the identification and classification of CRT responder by the use of genetic variants and clinical parameters. METHOD...

The proposal in this document is experimental. While it may be deployed in the current Internet, it does not represent a consensus that this is the best possible mechanism for the use of ECN in TCP SYN/ACK packets. This draft describes an optional, experimental modification to RFC 3168 to allow TCP SYN/ACK packets to be ECN-Capable. For TCP, RFC 3168 only specifies setting an ECN-Capable codepo...

In vitro lymphocyte responses of high responder (HR) and low responder (LR) guinea pigs from peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) to parasite antigens soluble protein third stage larvae (SPL3) and soluble protein adult stage ( SPA), non-parasite antigen ovalbumin (OVA) were examined. There was substantial differences between HR and LR guinea pigs in the rate of acquisition of responsiveness to th...

In this paper, we investigate coordination within responder radio communications during the World Trade Center disaster. Using a network analytic approach, we identify agents who exhibit high levels of coordinative activity. Agents are further classified by whether they appear to occupy formal roles whose responsibilities include coordination of communication, and by whether the agents belong t...

Many different factors influence the propensity of transfusion recipients and pregnant women to form red blood cell alloantibodies (RBCA). RBCA may cause hemolytic transfusion reactions, hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn and may be a complication in transplantation medicine. Antigenic differences between responder and foreign erythrocytes may lead to such an immune answer, in part with...

OBJECTIVES Emergency medical dispatch (EMD) protocols are intended to match response resources with patient needs. In a small city that previously sent a first-responder basic life support (BLS) engine company lights-and-siren response to every emergency medical services (EMS) call, regardless of nature or severity, an EMD system was implemented in order to reduce the number of such responses. ...