Understanding and generating spatial descriptions such as “to the left of” and “above” is crucial for any situated conversational agent such as a robot used in rescue operations. The semantics of spatial descriptions are complex and involve (i) perceptual knowledge obtained from scene geometry (Regier and Carlson, 2001), (ii) world knowledge about the objects involved (Coventry et al., 2001), a...

OBJECTIVE Diabetic foot ulceration is a preventable long-term complication of diabetes. A multicenter prospective follow-up study was conducted to determine which risk factors in foot screening have a high association with the development of foot ulceration. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 248 patients from 3 large diabetic foot centers were enrolled in a prospective study. Neuropathy ...

OBJECTIVE We sought to evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety of epalrestat, an aldose reductase inhibitor, on diabetic peripheral neuropathy. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Subjects with diabetic neuropathy, median motor nerve conduction velocity (MNCV) >or=40 m/s, and HbA(1c) <or=9% were enrolled in this open-label, multicenter study and randomized to 150 mg/day epalrestat or a control gro...

Given a tree and a set P of non-trivial simple paths on it, Vpt(P) is the VPT graph (i.e. the vertex intersection graph) of the paths P of the tree T , and Ept(P) is the EPT graph (i.e. the edge intersection graph) of P. These graphs have been extensively studied in the literature. Given two (edge) intersecting paths in a graph, their split vertices is the set of vertices having degree at least...

Purpose. To study the long-term neurotoxicity of chemotherapy in adolescents and young adults treated for bone and soft tissue sarcomas.Patients and Methods. Thirty-six adolescents and young adults (median age 17 years) were examined following chemotherapy for bone and soft tissue sarcomas. Twenty-nine (29/36) had received cisplatin (median 400 mg/m(2)), 15/36 ifosfamide (median 20 g/m(2)), and...

Dear Editor, C-reactive protein (CRP) is one of the most commonly used diagnostic biomarkers in the clinical setting for diagnosing and monitoring of inflammatory and infectious diseases. However, in neonates several questions remain, regarding the interpretation of an increased serum CRP concentration during the first days of life in otherwise healthy newborns, especially in preterms (1). Pent...

In this paper, we describe a privacy filter proposed for the Visual Privacy Task (VPT) 2013, as a case study to validate the efficacy of the User-Intimate Requirements and Evaluation Methodology (UI-REF). This comprises an automated objective evaluation phase supported by a subjective user study to crossvalidate and complement the results of the objective assessment. The performance of the prop...

Aim To investigate attitudes and approaches of UK primary care dentists to carrying out vital pulp treatment (VPT) after carious exposure with additional signs symptoms indicative irreversible pulpitis. Methodology An electronic questionnaire was openly distributed via publicly funded (NHS) local dental committees, corporate service-providers, professional societies social media. Principally NH...

PURPOSE To report two cases of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) associated with vasoproliferative tumors (VPTs) and Coats-like fundus. CASE REPORTS Two patients with RP presented with recent loss of vision due to combined VPTs and Coats-like retinal vascular alterations. One patient had two VPTs with adjacent capillary nonperfusion, telangiectasia and aneurysmal vascular changes in one eye. The othe...