objective: a review of capability of librarianship and information science that could manifest should it be seen from a new perspective method: a historical and at the same time comparative method was used. in the historical method the field of librarianship and information science are chronicled. in the comparative method, it has been compared to other fields findings: librarianship and inform...

In the recent years, interstitial brachytherapy implantation has become the treatment of choice for early stage prostate cancer patients. Treatment of prostate cancer with radiation is traced back to 1909. Originally this treatment modality was very crude and could not gain much popularity till 1982. Advancements in radioactive source designs, introduction of new low energy radioactive sources,...

in the recent years, interstitial brachytherapy implantation has become the treatment of choice for early stage prostate cancer patients. treatment of prostate cancer with radiation is traced back to 1909. originally this treatment modality was very crude and could not gain much popularity till 1982. advancements in radioactive source designs, introduction of new low energy radioactive sources,...

The purpose of this report is to present a short review of the history of Wilson’s disease and to describe the first diagnosed case at the Neurologic Clinic of Hospital das Clínicas of São Paulo University Medical School. The topics of the historical review are the first contributions of authors along the second half of the XIX century, the seminal monograph of Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (...

This paper reviews current discussion of the issue of just what is lost when a language dies. Special reference is made to the current situation in Laos, a country renowned for its considerable cultural and linguistic diversity. It focuses on the historical, anthropological and ecological knowledge that a language can encode, and the social and cultural consequences of the loss of such traditio...

Cursive handwriting recognition is a challenging task for many real-world applications such as document authentication, form processing, postal address recognition, reading machines for the blind, bank check recognition, and interpretation of historical documents. Therefore, in the last few decades, researchers have put an enormous effort into developing various techniques for handwriting recog...

one of important problems in supply chains management is supplier selection. in a company, there are massive data from various departments so that extracting knowledge from the company’s data is too complicated. many researchers have solved this problem by some methods like fuzzy set theory, goal programming, multi objective programming, the liner programming, mixed integer programming, analyti...