BACKGROUND In the last decade, the number of foreign residents in Spain has doubled and it has become one of the countries in the European Union with the highest number of immigrants There is no doubt that the health of the immigrant population has become a relevant subject from the point of view of public healthcare. Our study aimed at describing the potential inequalities in the use of health...

The Cascade Range is a geothermal dichotomy. On the one hand, it is an active volcanic arc above a subducting plate and is demonstrably an area of high heat flow. On the other hand, the distribution of hydrothermal manifestations compared to other volcanic arcs is sparse, and the hydrothermal outflow calculated from stream chemistry is low. Several large estimates of undiscovered geothermal res...

A developing country like India encounters challenges like exponential increase in population and rising per capita energy consumption which demands an optimum usage of available energy resources. Currently the energy demands are mostly met by non renewable energy sources, a system that puts a tremendous pressure on the economy and causes a serious threat to the environment, flora and fauna. He...

Systemic drugs have been used widely in the treatment of many skin diseases. Although dermatologists are familiar with the guidelines of selecting appropriate patients and prescribing systemic drugs, their knowledge about the side effects and significant interactions of systemic drugs used in dermatology is more limited. So a short review on important drug interactions seems to be useful. Some ...

Cysouw (this volume) argues against the use of implicational universals in linguistic typology. While some of the points he makes are valid, his argumentation is in other places somewhat confused. I attempt in this paper to give some clarity to some of the issues, drawing on examples based on my typological database (Dryer 1989, 1991, 1992, 1997, 1998), which currently contains data for over 12...

It is common to summarize statistical comparisons by declarations of statistical significance or non-significance. Here we discuss one problem with such declarations, namely that changes in statistical significance are often not themselves statistically significant. By this, we are not merely making the commonplace observation that any particular threshold is arbitrary—for example, only a small...

Statistical NLP inevitably deals with a large number of rare events. As a consequence, NLP data often violates the assumptions implicit in traditional statistical procedures such as significance testing. We describe a significance test, an exact conditional test, that is appropriate for NLP data and can be performed using freely available software. We apply this test to the study of lexical rel...

The adequate occupation of the computing resources can influence, in a decisive way, the global performance of the system. Therefore, in order to achieve a high performance, it is mandatory to know all the computing resources involved and their respective occupation level in a certain moment. With the objective of improving the system performance, this paper presents the OpenTella model to upda...

Editorial Lown et al. (1) report a significant advance in describing a new mechanism by which ingested nutrients may change exposure to drug therapy. Grapefruit juice was reported to increase plasma concentrations of felodipine and nifedipine when the drug was concurrently administered with grapefruit juice (2). The potential clinical importance of such an interaction was noted when cyclosporin...

One of the most important problems in urological practice is how to differentiate clinically significant and non significant prostate cancer (Pca) i.e. how to avoid over treatment of tumors with low malignant potential in one hand, and inappropriate less aggressive treatment of significant tumors, on the other hand. At the first place, one should estimate precise local clinical stage and the gr...