INTRODUCTION Recently, the Sepsis Severity Score (SSS) was constructed to predict mortality in sepsis patients. The aim of this study was to compare performance of the SSS with the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II-IV, Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II, and SAPS 3 scores in predicting hospital outcome in sepsis patients. METHODS A retroprospective analysis w...

OBJECTIVE In this report, we presented a rare case of bilateral silent sinus syndrome (SSS) in an otherwise healthy 57-year-old man treated with functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). A systematic review of the literature regarding bilateral SSS was performed. CASE REPORT A 57-year-old man with well-controlled allergic rhinitis in the absence of previous surgery or trauma presented with ...

Diverse groups of chemicals in culture media are needed for successful bovine oocyte maturation and embryo development during which dramatic cytoplasmic and nuclear reprogramming events take place. In vitro embryo production (IVP) procedures frequently include supplements such as serum and/or co-culture with various types of somatic cells. However, the presence of undefined serum in culture med...

Secondhand smoke (SHS) is a confirmed lung carcinogen that introduces thousands of toxic chemicals into the lungs. SHS contains chemicals that have been implicated in causing oxidative DNA damage in the airway epithelium. Although DNA repair is considered a key defensive mechanism against various environmental attacks, such as cigarette smoking, the associations of individual repair enzymes wit...

We propose two resource management methods; a scheduling policy that re ects resource consumption states and a memory-replacement strategy based on page classi cation under distributed shared memory architecture. The performances of the two mechanisms are evaluated by a probabilistic simulation. An instruction-level simulator simulates variety of process sets with nite resources on proposed res...

The stream cipher Self-Synchronizing Sober (SSS) is a candidate in the ECRYPT stream cipher competition. In this paper, we describe a chosen ciphertext attack on SSS. Our implementation of the attack recovers the entire secret state of SSS in around 10 seconds on a 2.8GHz PC, and requires a single chosen ciphertext of less than 10 kByte. The designers of SSS state that chosen ciphertext attacks...

Of the many minimax algorithms, SSS* is noteworthy because it usually searches the smallest game trees. Its success can be attributed to the accumulation and use of information acquired while traversing the tree. The main disadvantages of SSS* are its high storage needs and management costs. This paper describes a class of methods, based on the popular alpha-beta algorithm, that acquire and use...

BACKGROUND Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is a primary autoimmune disease (pSS) or secondarily associated with other autoimmune diseases (sSS). The mechanisms underlying immune dysregulation in this syndrome remain unknown, and clinically it is difficult to diagnose owing to a lack of specific biomarkers. METHODS We extracted immunoglobulins (Igs) from the sera of patients with sSS associated with r...

OBJECTIVES Stiff skin syndrome (SSS) is a rare scleroderma-like syndrome of unknown aetiology. A 16-year-old boy presented with thoracic and abdominal asymmetry, and 'orange peel' cutaneous lesions, with fibrotic stone-hard indurations at the buttocks, thighs and arms leading to secondary joint contractures of the extremities. Our aim was to analyse the expression of extracellular matrix (ECM) ...

The aim of the study is to validate the use of Siriraj Stroke Score (SSS) in the diagnosis of acute hemorrhagic and acute ischemic stroke in southeast Nigeria. This was a prospective study on validity of SSS in the diagnosis of stroke types in southeast Nigeria. Subjects diagnosed with stroke for whom brain computerized tomography (CT) scan was performed on admission were recruited during the s...