background symptoms of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (gerd) affect health-related quality of life (hrqol). when a questionnaire is translated into a new language, linguistic validation is necessary, yet insufficient, unless the psychometric characteristics have been verified. the aim of this study is to document the translation and psychometric validation of the persian translation of the qu...

There is a potentially strong demand for detailed 3D spatial data of urban area. Ground-based laser range scanner is one of the promising devices to acquire range images of urban 3D objects. In this paper, the authors propose an automated registration method of multiple overlapping range images for the reconstruction of 3D urban objects. Registration is achieved in two steps, pair-wise registra...

of “Algorithms for Analyzing Human Genome Rearrangements,” by Crystal L.Kahn, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2011. The human genome exhibits a rich structure resulting from a long history of genomicchanges, including single base-pair mutations and larger scale rearrangements such as in-versions, deletions, translocations, and duplications. The number and order of the genomicchange...

As an extension of a concept known as tawheed,* nothing lies outside of The Jurisdiction of Divine Intervention; nor is God the deist’s watchmaker, winding up reality and watching various Newtonian-like mechanized processes play themselves out. Once this latter deist notion is embraced, and given a particular subtle type of human propensity for self-exaltation (a type which is by definition not...

Novel contemporary healthcare information systems offer the prospect of exploring unique features of the IT artefact and probing the finer, integral relations between society, technology, and humans. Some of these IT artefacts are innately complex and current theoretical perspectives are too limited to enrich their understanding. Using material from a longitudinal case study of an Internet-base...

This clinical guideline from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) provides an evidence-based approach management of patients with malignant hilar obstruction (MHO). document was developed using Grading Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation framework addresses primary drainage modality (percutaneous transhepatic biliary [PTBD] vs endoscopic [EBD]), strategy...