Background: The authors herein report a case of pain, femoral vein thrombosis, and inguinal subcutaneous hematoma caused by percutaneous femoral vascular catheterization in a hemodialysis (HD) patient complicated with vascular access occlusion. The pain was well-controlled without using analgesics such as non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). The thrombosis and hematoma increased in si...

An experiment was performed at the National Library of Medicine((R)) (NLM((R))) in word sense disambiguation (WSD) using the Journal Descriptor Indexing (JDI) methodology. The motivation is the need to solve the ambiguity problem confronting NLM's MetaMap system, which maps free text to terms corresponding to concepts in NLM's Unified Medical Language System((R)) (UMLS((R))) Metathesaurus((R))....

Automatic document categorization is an important research problem in Information Science and Natural Language Processing. Many applications, including Word Sense Disambiguation and Information Retrieval in large collections, can benefit from such categorization. This paper focuses on automatic categorization of documents from the biomedical literature into broad discipline-based categories. Tw...

Journal Descriptor Indexing (JDI) is a vector-based text classification system developed at NLM (National Library of Medicine), originally in Lisp and now as a Java tool. Consequently, a testing suite was developed to verify training set data and results of the JDI tool. A methodology was developed and implemented to compare two sets of JD vectors, resulting in a single index (from 0 - 1) measu...

Static blood (Oketsu) is a disorder of Kampo medicine. Many natural medicines have been used to cure static blood, and these drugs are called stasis-resolving formula. Some were reported inhibit coagulation. Jidabokuippo (JDI), one the formulas, has treat bruises sprains. In this study, we evaluated antithrombin activity JDI its active compounds using thrombin an artificial substrate. Bioassay-...

Ramsay Hunt syndrome (RHS) is a disease that caused by the varicella-zoster virus and characterized severe ear pain, auricular vesicular eruptions, peripheral facial paralysis. Objective: The aim of this case report to provide information about clinical findings treatment process RHS, which rare may have oral stress importance early diagnosis. Case Report: A 60-year-old male patient had previou...

This article presents the psychometric properties of the Job Descriptive Index (JDI) and Job in General (JIG) instruments with a Portuguese representative sample of military sergeants and officers. Demographic correlates of job satisfaction are also investigated. The sample consists of 413 sergeants and 362 officers in different hierarchical positions, who equally perform different functions. T...

It has been 4 years since Journal of Diabetes Investigation (JDI) was launched as a bimonthly journal in 2010, as the official journal of the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD). Two years after the launch, the first Impact Factor was released with the evaluation of 1.861. Contributions come from all over the world, and in 2012 almost 300 papers per year as original articles have...