abstract background: very low birth weight infants ( <1500 g) frequently require blood transfusions because of repeated blood sampling accompanied by anemia of prematurity. methods: in an attempt to identify the effect of human recombinant erythropoietin to decrease the requirement for blood transfusions, erythropoietin was administered to 24 pre term infants less than 1500 g prospectively from...

This document is an overview of formal models for AOP. It covers most existing formalisms. Instead of explaining the technical details of each work, we identify key concepts for AOP, and mention how they are modeled.

PURPOSE Anemia of prematurity is frequent in preterm infants, for which red blood cell (RBC) transfusion remains the treatment of choice. In this study, we attempted to evaluate the characteristics and risk factors of anemia of prematurity, and suggest ways to reduce anemia and the need for multiple transfusions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Preterm infants weighing less than 1500 g (May 2008-May 20...

We present a case study where we applied Aspect Orientation (AO) against an industrial, legacy, non Object Oriented application, in an effort to regain lost knowledge thereof. We start off by briefly discussing some of the problems which arise in such software, as well as how aspects might aid in alleviating them. We then discuss the implementation of an aspect language for C, aspicere, which i...

Erythropoietin (Epo) is a true hematopoietic hormone produced in response to lowered oxygen tension. The liver is the main source of Epo during most of fetallife, but the liver to kidney switch occurs around birth so that 90% of Epo synthesis takes place in the kidney very soon in life. E!evated serum Epo levels are observed at birth in the case of maternaI hypertension, akoholism, or diabetes ...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is a developing nanotechnology, which seems to be a good candidate to replace the conventional complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. In this article, we present the dataset of average output polarization (AOP) for basic reversible logic gates presented in Ali Newaz et al. (2016) [1]. QCADesigner 2.0.3 has been employed to analysis the AOP...

An adverse outcome pathway (AOP) is a conceptual framework that organizes existing knowledge concerning biologically plausible, and empirically supported, links between molecular-level perturbation of a biological system and an adverse outcome at a level of biological organization of regulatory relevance. Systematic organization of information into AOP frameworks has potential to improve regula...