574 P&T® • October 2008 • Vol. 33 No. 10 INTRODUCTION In 2007, Goldstein et al. sought to determine the economic burden attributed to the management of postoperative ileus (POI) associated with abdominal surgery in the U.S. Their study revealed an annual national hospital cost of $1.46 billion for both the index hospitalization and any readmissions within 30 days. POI is one of the expected com...

Primary ovarian insufficiency or premature ovarian failure (POI/POF) is one the causes of female infertility. POI is defined as cessation of menstrual periods, increased levels of FSH and diminished levels of estrogens before the age of 40. POI occurs in about 1% of women between 30 to 40 years of age, 0.1% of those under 30 and 0.01% of women under the age of 20. Fertility of women with POI is...

This paper presents a system that could automatically extract new POIs from Web. First, we use special queries (e.g. Taipei+New Open) to find Web pages that might contain addresses for new stores. For web pages that contain addresses, we then apply store name recognition model to extract possible POIs. Finally, we train a model to find the most possible POI for the address found in the page. In...

Location-based social networks involve a great number of POIs (points of interest) as well as users’ check-in information and their ratings on POIs. We note that users have their own preferences for POI categories. In addition, they have their own network of friends. Therefore, it is necessary to provide for a group of users (circle of friends) a new kind of POI-finding service that considers n...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the involvement of immune abnormality in patients with idiopathic premature ovarian insufficiency (POI). In addition to the known etiology, autoimmune disorders may be a pathologic mechanism for POI. MATERIALS AND METHODS Our study was a prospective controlled trial. Twenty women with POI, reasons other than autoimmune excluded, were enrolled in this study. The control ...

PURPOSE Postoperative ileus (POI) is an impairment of coordinated gastrointestinal (GI) motility that develops as a consequence of abdominal surgery and is a major factor contributing to patient morbidity and prolonged hospitalization. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of different 5-hydroxytryptamine 4 (5-HT₄) receptor agonists, which stimulate excitatory pathways, on a POI ...

The poi-2 gene is highly and specifically expressed in starved and sexual tissues of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. It encodes a 27-kDa protein, as shown by in vitro transcription and translation. The POI2 protein contains a hydrophobic signal sequence at the amino terminus followed by novel 16 tandem repeats of 13 to 14 amino acid residues; all repeats are separated by Kex2 processi...

With the increasing popularity of location-aware social media applications, Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation has recently been extensively studied. However, most of the existing studies explore from the users’ perspective, namely recommending POIs for users. In contrast, we consider a new research problem of predicting users who will visit a given POI in a given future period. The challen...

We consider the focused coverage self-deployment problem in mobile sensor networks, where an area with maximum radius around a Point of Interest (POI) must be covered without sensing holes. Li et al. [9][10] described several algorithms solving this problem. They showed that their algorithms terminate in finite time. We present a modified version of the Greedy-Rotation-Greedy (GRG) algorithm by...

This paper describes the Musical Poi (mPoi), a unique sensorbased musical instrument inspired by the ancient art of Jwibulnori and Poi spinning. The trajectory of circular motion drawn by the performance and the momentum of the mPoi instrument is converted to the energetic and vibrant sound, which creates a spiritual and meditative soundscape that opens everyone up the aura and clears the mind....