BACKGROUND The mouth is the most common site for measuring temperature. Oral mucositis may affect up to 40% of patients who receive chemotherapy. Thus far, mucositis has not been studied with regard to accurate thermometry. METHODS One hundred consecutive patients (25 per group) were self-referred on the basis of perception of mucositis, temperature measurement at home, or malaise or were ref...

The Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease, which caused by the aggregation of beta-amyloid peptide ( $$A\beta$$ ) in patient’s brain and disorder $${\text{Ca}}^{2 + }$$ homeostasis neurons. Caluwé Dupont (Theor Biol 331:12–18, 2013) proposed deterministic AD model to explore effect on AD. They demonstrated positive feedback loop between }:$$ occurrence bistability. Based their...

The solution of most commercial rule-based expert systems consists of two components –the conclusion(s) reached and a calculated measure of belief in the conclusion(s), expressed as a single number. In non-deterministic domains, this number is often the most critical factor in analyzing the solution. However, as this paper reviews, a robust calculus for this number has yet to be documented, ind...

This corrects the article on p. 331 in vol. 55, PMID: 24532500.