Sir, I write with respect to the Technical Note “Generating unique identifiers (IDs) from patient identification data using security models,”[1] the authors of which propose a method to “create a unique one‐way encrypted ID per patient that can be used for data sharing.” In summary, their method involves concatenation of a patient’s date of birth, sex, and surname, utilizing either the MD5 or S...

The conversion of α-synuclein from its intrinsically disordered monomeric state into the fibrillar cross-β aggregates characteristically present in Lewy bodies is largely unknown. The investigation of α-synuclein variants causative of familial forms of Parkinson disease can provide unique insights into the conditions that promote or inhibit aggregate formation. It has been shown recently that a...

From the initial description of platelets in 1882, their propensity to aggregate and to contribute to thrombosis was apparent. Indeed, excessive platelet aggregation is associated with myocardial infarction and other thrombotic diseases whereas Glanzmann thrombasthenia, in which platelet aggregation is reduced, is a bleeding syndrome. Over the last half of the 20th century, many investigators h...

Search result diversification is one of the key techniques to cope with the ambiguous and/or underspecified information needs of the web users. In the last few years, strategies that are based on the explicit knowledge of query aspects emerged as highly effective ways of diversifying the search results. Our contributions in this work are two-fold. First, we extensively evaluate the performance ...

caring of a dying patient is more convenient than a patient who knows his/her prognosis. according to pataica mcgorr once the dying patient compliance with the death, care givers can help him/her to overcome on fear of death.   continues reports show that most of dying patients agrees to know the truth. glaser and strauss named different tricks which patents make to know the time of their death...

Inspired by the PNNI protocol of the ATM Forum, this work focuses on the problem of node aggregation within peer groups and link aggregation between peer groups. It is assumed that the (large) network is already divided into peer groups. The objective is to maximally condense topology information subject to a given accuracy constraint. The QoS measures can be reduced into three distinct classes...

OBJECTIVE Signal peptide-CUB-EGF domain-containing protein 1 (SCUBE1), a secreted and surface-exposed glycoprotein on activated platelets, promotes platelet-platelet interaction and supports platelet-matrix adhesion. Its plasma level is a biomarker of platelet activation in acute thrombotic diseases. However, the exact roles of plasma SCUBE1 in vivo remain undefined. APPROACH AND RESULTS We g...

Due to sensors storage capacity limit, communication bandwidth and computation ability WSN has some limitations. Due to this limited resources the amount of data transmission in network should be reduced. Data aggregation is new method for the above purpose. From the present algorithms for data aggregation the efficient is Iterative Filtering (IF) algorithm, which provides trust evaluation to t...

The Werewolf game is a conversation-based party games. Each player in the game belongs to werewolves or villagers. Since secret conversations called “Whispers” are allowed for werewolves only, effective use of whispers must be a key issue for werewolves to proceed advantageously to win the game. In this work-in-progress paper, for a preliminary assessment of the whispers’ effect, we extract rel...

Fig 1 does not include axis labels and has an outdated plant family name (Palmae). The authors have provided a corrected version here. Copyright: © 2015 Jaskowska et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are c...