PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST – ACTUAL THERAPEUTIC OPTIONS (Abstract): BACKGROUND: Pancreatic pseudocyst (PP) is one of the most frequent complications of acute and chronic pancreatitis; patients with these disorders often benefit from interventional treatment, or minimally invasive surgery. Progress of new minimally invasive interventional techniques (endoscopic internal drainage, external drainage gu...

of motifs from pagan healing cults by the Christians, and it is good to have a further archaeological demonstration of the same point. This rivalry may go some way to explain the total destruction at Pergamum of all artistic representations of Asclepius of Pergamum, for which we have to rely on statues and coins from Thrace and the Black Sea region and on the late testimony of an Arabic scholar...

it’s obvious that road safety is causing large problems and costs in iran with an enormous impact on the well-being of people, economy and productivity. the yearly number of fatalities and injuries is still unchanged. motor vehicle injuries lead the list of injury deaths at the all ages during childhood and adolescence, even in children under 1 yrs of age. understanding the actual of child road...

Given a causal model of some domain and a particular story that has taken place in this domain, the problem of actual causation is deciding which of the possible causes for some effect actually caused it. One of the most influential approaches to this problem has been developed by Halpern and Pearl in the context of structural models. In this paper, I argue that this is actually not the best se...

Many senrice courses in statistics, in my experience, have degenerated into the presentation of a set of recipes. The prevailing situation extant in many courses was summed up recently by my son, himself a trainee engineer, when he said, "I lean the recipes to pass the exam but I don't really understand the material". In fact the rapidity with which the material in his course has been presented...

The paper presents the initial findings of an exploratory study on the use of a multimodal mobile phone application in a real life setting and in a more traditional lab setting. Some established methods for evaluation were used, however new evaluation tools were also used in an aim to discover more about the users experience when using the application. This is a difficult area in which to under...

Most process research relies heavily on the use of terms and concepts whose validity depends on a variety of assumptions to be met. As it is difficult to guarantee that they are met, such work continually runs the risk of being invalid. We propose a different and complementary approach to understanding process: Perform all description bottom-up and based on hard data alone. We call the approach...