congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (cnldo) is a common disease in children. the classic treatment of cnldo is probing that was done around one year old. however, controversy exists regarding the outcome of probing in children older than one year. this study aimed to find the cure rate of initial probing for cnldo and identify factors producing the failure rate in old age. in this retrospe...

dynamic assessment (da) which is rooted in vygotsky’s (1978) sociocultural theory involves the integration of instruction and assessment in a dialectical way to achieve two main purposes: enhancing learners' development and understanding about their learning potential. however, the feasibility and appropriateness of mediation are two main concerns of da. the former is concerned with the applica...

The AQUILA project defines and implements a QoS architecture for dynamic end-to-end service provisioning in IP networks. This paper presents the distributed QoS measurement architecture (DMA) designed as a part of AQUILA. The scope of QoS measurement in AQUILA is the evaluation and validation of the AQUILA architecture and the support of the AQUILA resource control mechanisms. The measurement m...

background and aims. changes in the balance of sexual hormones during pregnancy decrease gingival crevicular fluid levels of interleukin-6 and the resistance of gingival tissue against inflammations. hormonal contraceptives are agents that are based on the effects of gestational hormones and simulate a state of pregnancy; therefore, they prevent ovulation. this study evaluates the effect of the...

Linear probing is one of the most popular implementations of dynamic hash tables storing all keys in a single array. When we get a key, we first hash it to a location. Next we probe consecutive locations until the key or an empty location is found. At STOC’07, Pagh et al. presented data sets where the standard implementation of 2-universal hashing leads to an expected number of Ω(log n) probes....

There has been an explosion of metagenomic data representing human, animal, and environmental microbiomes. This provides unprecedented opportunity for comparative longitudinal studies many functional aspects the microbiome that go beyond taxonomic classification, such as profiling genetic determinants antimicrobial resistance, interactions with host, potentially clinically relevant functions, r...