BACKGROUND The complexity of anticoagulation therapy requires a patient's command of anticoagulation-related knowledge to assist in maintaining optimal therapy and reducing adverse events. Verbal evaluations may overestimate the patient's comprehension of anticoagulation knowledge. OBJECTIVES This first phase study developed and pilot tested the Anticoagulation Knowledge Assessment (AKA) inst...

For smooth varieties over finite fields, we prove that the shifted (aka derived) Witt groups of surfaces are finite and the higher GrothendieckWitt groups (aka Hermitian K-theory) of curves are finitely generated. For more general arithmetic schemes, we give conditional results, for example, finite generation of the motivic cohomology groups implies finite generation of the Grothendieck-Witt gr...

Anonymity is a very important security feature in addition to authentication and key agreement features in communication protocols. In this paper, we propose two authentication and key agreement (AKA) protocols: the AKA protocol with user anonymity (UAP) and the AKA protocol with user and server anonymity (USAP). The proposed protocols have the following advantages: first of all, they preserve ...

We analysed the presence of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) and anti-keratin (AKA) antibodies of the IgG class in sera of patients with defined juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) of various subgroups with more than one year duration of the disease. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Immunoscan RA, Eurodiagnostica, The Netherlands) and an indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) test on r...

We prove that the hierarchy of higher antibrackets (aka higher Koszul brackets, aka Koszul braces) of a linear operator ∆ on a commutative superalgebra can be defined by some universal formulas involving iterated Nijenhuis–Richardson brackets having as arguments ∆ and the multiplication operators. As a byproduct, we can immediately extend higher antibrackets to noncommutative algebras in a way ...

BACKGROUND There have been few studies on the value of various antibody combinations in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) diagnosis, and a lack of studies with large sample sizes, especially in the Chinese population. This study retrospectively evaluated the diagnostic value of a combined assay of five auto-antibodies [anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP), anti-keratin (AKA), anti-RA 33, glucos...

BACKGROUND Above-the-knee amputations (AKA) and below-the-knee amputations (BKA) are commonly indicated in patients with ischemia, extensive tissue loss, or infection. AKA were previously reported to have better wound-healing rates but poorer rehabilitation rates than BKA. OBJECTIVES To compare the outcomes of AKA and BKA and to identify risk factors for poor outcome following leg amputation....

Adaptation is a task of case-based reasoning systems that is largely domain-dependant. This motivates the study of adaptation knowledge acquisition (AKA) that can be carried out thanks to learning processes on the variations between cases of the case base. This paper studies the representation of these variations and the impact of this representation on the AKA process, through experiments in a...