Foreign body aspiration (FBA) is a common problem among children or infants. Nearly 85% of all FB aspiration occurs in childhood. Common organic aspirated materials include nuts and seeds while inorganic materials include plastic pieces or parts of toys (1). In adults, most of FBAs are seen in the 6th or 7th decade of life when the airway protection mechanism is impaired due to central nervous ...

Purpose: To explore respiratory allergen profile and the relation between the month of birth and allergen type in Duzce Province in Turkey. Method: The study was performed retrospectively. Between October 2011 and January 2017, 302 cases underwent in fiberoptic bronchoscopy were examined retrospectively. Among these, the characteristics of 7 female patients who applied to our clinic with turban...

While the equation above is correct, it is not very useful for incremental updates since the equation above updates the checksum C, rather than the 1’s complement of the checksum, ̃C, which is the value stored in the checksum field. In addition, it suffers because the notation does not clearly specify that all arithmetic, including the unary negation, must be performed one’s complement, and so i...

Adoption of the Internet by a critical mass of the world population (1.25 billion users as of 2007, according to Internet World Stats, 2007) has changed the nature and scope of commercial transactions. Increasingly more people worldwide engage in “buying, selling, transferring, or exchanging products, services, and/or information via computer networks, including Internet” (Turban, King, Viehlan...

1.1 Problemstellung Entscheidungsunterstützungsoder Decision Support Systeme (DSS) sind nach Alter (1996) ursprünglich computer-basierte Systeme, die den Benutzer bei der Identifikation und Auswahl geeigneter Entscheidungsalternativen in Situationen, zu denen keine Erfahrungen oder praktischen Lösungsansätze vorliegen, unterstützen. Die Auffassung der Special Interest Group on Decision Support,...

This paper analyses the dimensions of social websites to establish communication innovation using the Actor Network Theory. Social websites are also referred to as social network sites and social media sites which reflect technology, users, content and linguistic issues as heterogeneous combination of entities for interaction and communication via this media. Social websites have clearly achiev...

Current methods for off-road navigation using vehicle and terrain models to predict future vehicle response are limited by the accuracy of the models they use and can suffer if the world is unknown or if conditions change and the models become inaccurate. In this paper, an adaptive approach is presented that closes the loop around the vehicle predictions. This approach is applied to an autonomo...