PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review summarizes clinical and basic science evidence linking trauma and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use to initiation and progression of severe group A streptococcal (GAS) soft tissue infection. RECENT FINDINGS New evidence includes recent clinical series and controlled studies that lend support to an NSAID/GAS association, basic science studies that de...

A new ASIC capable of computing rank order "lters, weighted rank order "lters, standard erosion and dilation, soft erosion and dilation, order statistic soft erosion and dilation, fuzzy erosion and dilation and fuzzy soft erosion and dilation is presented in this paper. Its function is based on local histogram and a successive approximation technique and performs on 3]3-pixel image windows. The...

Microfluidic channels are typically fabricated in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) using soft lithography and sealed against a support substrate using various irreversible/reversible techniques-the most widely used method is the irreversible bonding of PDMS to glass using oxygen plasma. These techniques are limited in their ability to seal channels against rough, uneven, and/or three-dimensional sub...

Research on Astym therapy began with a multi-disciplinary research team theorizing about a potential physical treatment method with the ability to regenerate and remodel soft tissues. These theories were built upon emerging evidence regarding the degenerative nature of tendinopathy, and the investigations into how cellular mediators and growth factors may enhance healing. Hypothesizing that an ...

This paper addresses the patterns of influence between the news media and the public, by specifically targeting breaking stories, or shocks, to a news system. Specifically, we assess media agenda setting and selective exposure by looking at the relative public attention spans to hard and soft news (as measured by query volume), in comparison with the volume of news coverage (in print, broadcast...

In this paper, a predictive soft sensor via a Recurrent Neural Network is proposed for sensing the area between the tires and the terrain, which is one of the most important issues in the automotive industry, in fact, keeping a tire contact patch suitable ensures the comfort and maneuverability of the vehicle. The core of the soft sensor is an recurrent neural network, the training of a recurre...

1 Department of Computer Science, Furman University, Greenville SC 29613 USA; e-mail: [email protected] Abstract This paper discusses an efficient approach to statically compute a WCET that is “soft” rather than “hard”. The goal of most timing analysis is to determine a guaranteed WCET; however this execution time may be far above the actual distribution of observed execution times. A WCET...

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a central generic problem in computer science and artificial intelligence: it provides a common framework for many theoretical problems as well as for many real-life applications. Soft constraint problems are a generalisation of the CSP which allow the user to model optimisation problems. Considerable effort has been made in identifying properties wh...

This article discusses univariate density estimation in situations when the sample (hard information) is supplemented by “soft” information about the random phenomenon. These situations arise broadly in operations research and management science where practical and computational reasons severely limit the sample size, but problem structure and past experiences could be brought in. In particular...

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a central generic problem in computer science and artificial intelligence: it provides a common framework for many theoretical problems as well as for many real-life applications. Soft constraint problems are a generalisation of the CSP which allow the user to model optimisation problems. Considerable effort has been made in identifying properties wh...