BACKGROUND Apixaban is a direct factor Xa inhibitor approved for the treatment and prevention of thromboembolic disease. There is a lack of data regarding its reversal in cases of acute bleeding or prior to emergency surgery that needs addressing. OBJECTIVES This study assessed whether a four-factor prothrombin complex concentrate (4F-PCC; Beriplex(®) /Kcentra(®) , CSL Behring) can effectivel...

In order to bridge the “Semantic gap”, a number of relevance feedback (RF) mechanisms have been applied to content-based image retrieval (CBIR). However current RF techniques in most existing CBIR systems still lack satisfactory user interaction although some work has been done to improve the interaction as well as the search accuracy. In this paper, we propose a four-factor user interaction mo...

the purpose of this study was to determine the factors and facets of five factor model in people with borderline and schizotypal personality traits.190 kharazmi university students completed three questionnaires: goldberg inventory, borderline personality inventory (bpi) and schizotypal personality questionnaire-brief (spq-b). participants, according to cut off points of borderline personality ...

This note, which analyzes the central role of women’s health in the debate over the limits of abortion rights, explores the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Stenberg v. Carhart to invalidate a Nebraska statute banning partial birth abortion. Specifically, this note questions whether the Court’s decision in Stenberg effectively requires that all future statutes banning partial bir...

the purpose of this research is to identify factors and components that affect a trust-based cooperation in the automobile supply chain and their impact on the performance of the supply chain companies. this paper includes 2 parts. in the first part, by studying the research history and literature and interviewing academic and industrial scholars and experts, four hidden variables of trust-base...

We study standard mutual fund performance measures, using simulated funds whose characteristics mimic actual funds. We find that performance measures used in previous mutual fund research have little ability to detect economically large magnitudes ~e.g., three percent per year! of abnormal fund performance, particularly if a fund’s style characteristics differ from those of the value-weighted m...