STUDY DESIGN A systematic review. OBJECTIVE To determine whether different indications or reasons for spinal fusion are associated with different risks of subsequent adjacent segment pathology (ASP) in the lumbar and cervical spine. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Pre-existing degeneration at levels adjacent to an arthrodesis may play a role in the development of symptomatic adjacent segment pat...

Renal aspergillosis (RAsp) is a rare complication in liver transplant (LT) recipients. Here we report RAsp in two LT recipients. In both patients, RAsp occurred more than 90 d after allogenetic orthotropic LT, and all the clinical findings were unspecific. RAsp involved unilateral kidney in Case one and bilateral kidneys in Case two. Both computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging ...

In previous work we have proposed an extension to ASP (Answer Set Programming), called RASP, standing for ASP with Resources. RASP supports declarative reasoning on production and consumption of (amounts of) resources. The approach combines answer set semantics with quantitative reasoning and relies on an algebraic structure to support computations and comparisons of amounts. The RASP framework...

BACKGROUND Complement 3 (C3), a key component of the innate immune system, is involved in early inflammatory responses. Acylation stimulating protein (ASP; aka C3adesArg), a C3 cleavage product, is produced in adipose tissue and stimulates lipid storage. We hypothesized that, depending on the diet, chronic ASP administration in C3(-/-) mice would affect lipid metabolism and insulin sensitivity ...

MOTIVATION Over the recent years, the vision that RNA simply serves as information transfer molecule has dramatically changed. The study of the sequence/structure/function relationships in RNA is becoming more important. As a direct consequence, the total number of experimentally solved RNA structures has dramatically increased and new computer tools for predicting RNA structure from sequence a...

Hosting data query services in public clouds is an attractive solution for its great scalability and significant cost savings. However, data owners also have concerns on data privacy due to the lost control of the infrastructure. This demonstration shows a prototype for efficient and confidential range/kNN query services built on top of the random space perturbation (RASP) method. The RASP appr...

Various applications could potentially benefit from the integration of deep and shallow processing techniques. A universal representation, compatible between deep and shallow parsers, would enable such integration, allowing the advantages of both to be combined. This paper describes efforts to make RMRS such a representation. This work was done as part of DeepThought, funded under the 5th Frame...

Highlight Research The sound of d spiny lobster (Panulirus homarus) was identified, named rasp; slow rattle; and popping characteristics represent its behavior Passive acoustic visual record method combination implemented to analyze the relation between sounds Abstract Spiny Panulirus homarus is one many important economic fishery resources in Indonesia. Continuous exploitation activities natur...

RASP is a recent extension of Answer Set Programming that permits declarative specification and reasoning on consumption and production of resources. In this paper, we extend the concept of strong equivalence (which, as widely recognized, provides an important conceptual and practical tool for program simplification, transformation and optimization) from ASP to RASP programs and discuss its use...

We revisit the problem of privacy-preserving range search and sort queries on encrypted data in the face of an untrusted data store. Our new protocol RASP has several advantages over existing work. First, RASP strengthens privacy by ensuring forward security: after a query for range [a,b], any new record added to the data store is indistinguishable from random, even if the new record falls with...