188 On 8 October 2000, the acting district director of health services for the Gulu district in northwestern Uganda received two concurrent reports of an unusual illness with high mortality, occurring in the community and at a local hospital. One report attributed the illness to poisoning at a funeral at a remote village in the far north of the district. At the same time, the medical superinten...

Um método simples, isocrático, de HPLC foi desenvolvido para quantificação simultânea de dois triterpenos bioativos, ácido ursólico e lactona do ácido ursólico em folhas de E. tereticornis. As amostras foram analisadas em coluna RP-18 (4,6 × 250 mm, 5 μm) com metanol e água acidificada a pH 3,5 com TFA (88:12) a 210 nm. O método foi validado e aplicado para a quantificação simultânea dos triter...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Decisions on life-sustaining treatments and the use of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders can affect early mortality after stroke. We investigated the variation in early DNR use after stroke among hospitals in California and the effect of this variation on mortality-based hospital classifications. METHODS Using the California State Inpatient Database from 2005 to 2011, isc...

As medical science continues to advance, patients nowadays with progressive cardiopulmonary diseases live to older ages. However, they too will eventually reach their unsustainable physiological limit and many die in poor health and discomfort prior to their demise. Regrettably many physicians have not kept pace in dealing with the inevitable end-of- life issues, along with modern technological...

Several characteristic parameters of randomly grown quadtrees of any dimension are analysed. Additive parameters have expectations whose generating functions are expressible in terms of generalized hypergeometric functions. A complex asymptotic process based on singularity analysis and integral representations akin to Mellin transforms leads to explicit values for various structure constants re...

Marcelo Biscegli Jatene1,2, Ieda Biscegli Jatene2, Patrícia Marques de Oliveira2, Rafael Aon Moysés2, Luis Carlos Bento de Souza2, Valmir Fontes2, Nana Miura1, Antonio Augusto Lopes1, Miguel Barbero Marcial1, Adib Domingos Jatene1,2 Instituto do Coração (InCor) do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo1, Hospital do Coração da Associação do Sanatório Sírio2,...

BACKGROUND Since the passage of the Patient Self-Determination Act, numerous policy mandates and institutional measures have been implemented. It is unknown to what extent those measures have affected end-of-life care, particularly with regard to the do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order. METHODS Retrospective cohort study to assess associations of the frequency and timing of DNR orders with advance...

The Do Not Track header (henceforth DNT:1) seeks to provide privacy protections against third party tracking through user request and regulation. It is our position that while DNT:1 is potentially useful as a purely informational tool for browser vendors and service providers, enforcement of the header suffers from a number of issues including covert circumvention, enforcement jurisdiction, man...

1 Overview It is the third time that Chinese Information Processing Group of NLPR takes part in TREC. In the past, we participated in Novelty track and Robust track, in which we had evaluated our two key notions: Window-based Retrieval Algorithm and Result Emerging Strategy [1][2]. This year we focus on investigating the significance of relevance feedback, so HARD track is our best choice. HARD...

Design patterns document good solutions to recurring problems in a particular context. Composing design patterns may achieve higher level of reuse by solving a set of problems. Design patterns and their compositions are usually modeled by UML diagrams. When a design pattern is applied or composed with other patterns, the pattern-related information may be lost because traditional UML diagrams d...