BACKGROUND Ipsilateral shoulder pain (ISP) is a common complication of mixed etiology after thoracic surgery (its prevalence is estimated in the literature at between 42% and 97%). It is severe and resistant to treatment (patients complain of pain despite effective epidural analgesia at the surgical site). AIM OF THE STUDY The aim of this retrospective, observational study was to evaluate the...

OBJECTIVES To describe the results and complications of in situ preservation (ISP) of kidneys from donors after cardiac death (DCD). BACKGROUND DCD donors are increasingly being used to expand the pool of donor kidneys. ISP reduces warm ischemic injury which is associated with DCD donation. METHODS Insertion of a double-balloon triple-lumen catheter allows selective perfusion of the abdomin...

A global solution for the provision of QoS in IPng sites must include ISP selection based on per-application requirements. In this article we present a new site-local architecture for QoS-driven ISP selection in multi-homed domains, performed in a per application basis. This architecture proposes the novel use of existent network services, a new type of routing header, and the modification of a...

The Information Security Policy (ISP) of an organisation is expected to specify for employees their behaviour towards security, and the security ethos of the organisation. However, there are a wide range of opinions and expertise that should be considered by organisations when developing an ISP. This paper aims to identify the stakeholders that should be utilised in an ISP development process a...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although epidemiological and experimental studies suggest that dietary intake of soy may be cardioprotective, use of isoflavone soy protein (ISP) supplementation as a primary preventive therapy remains unexplored. We determined whether ISP reduces subclinical atherosclerosis assessed as carotid artery intima-media thickness progression. METHODS In a double-blind, placeb...

Thrust plate prosthesis (TPP) has load-transferring characteristics different from those of conventional intramedullary stemmed prostheses (ISP). We investigate whether prosthesis type (intramedullary or extramedullary application) can improve early functional activities in hospital patients with hip arthroplasty. Early postoperative functional activities of 30 patients with TPP were compared w...

Incidents of computer abuse, proprietary information leaks and other security lapses have been on an increase. Most often, such security lapses are attributed to internal employees in organizations subverting established organizational information security policy (ISP). As employee compliance with ISP is the key to escalating information security breaches, understanding employee motivation for ...

We present ISP, a novel architecture for Internet Service Providers suitable for installation in airports, hotels, conference centers, cafés, and office or apartment buildings. Users access a ISP via a low-cost, high-bandwidth LAN, e.g. Ethernet or WaveLAN. A router connects the ISP’s LAN to a shared high-bandwidth access link (e.g., DSL or cable) to a conventional ISP. For this service, a ISP ...

As Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are widely deployed in the Internet, P2P traffic control becomes a challenge for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and P2P system vendors. Some recent works consider the interaction between ISPs and P2P systems and propose ISP-friendly P2P traffic control mechanisms for reducing cross-ISP traffic. In this paper, we consider another fundamental problem: the interact...

Four protein-based genetic determinants or prions-[SWI(+)], [MCA], [OCT(+)], and [MOT3(+)]-are recent additions to the list of well-known Saccharomyces cerevisiae prions, [PSI(+)], [URE3], and [PIN(+)]. A rapid expansion of this list may indicate that many yeast proteins can convert into heritable prion forms and underscores a problem of prion input into cellular physiology. Here, we prove that...