POEMS syndrome is a unique clinical entity. Although it's a diagnosis of exclusion, it was previously described by the presence of several typical characteristics as paraproteinemia, polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, and skin changes. Recently, new criteria were proposed, and the presence of two major and one minor criterion was claimed to suffice for a diagnosis. Both methods consi...

BACKGROUND POEMS syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome associated with plasma cell dyscrasia. High-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation has shown encouraging efficacy in the treatment of patients with POEMS syndrome. However, there are minimal reports on clinical outcomes after autologous stem cell transplantation for patients with advanced disease and very po...

Data-driven research in linguistics typically involves the processes of data annotation, data visualization and identification of relevant patterns. We describe our experience in incorporating these processes at an undergraduate course on language information technology. Students collectively annotated the syntactic structures of a set of Classical Chinese poems; the resulting treebank was put ...

â  sayyed mohammad bagher hosseini * â  javad gholamalizade ** â  â  abstract â  â  the fourth and fifth centuries are known as the golden age of arab poetry in khorasan, in such a way that khorasan became a place for great poets and scholars from all over the islamic world. one of the poetic genres culminated in this period is usually created when human is faced with an affair that irritates h...

The Complete Tang Poems (CTP) is the most important source to study Tang poems. We look into CTP with computational tools from specific linguistic perspectives, including distributional semantics and collocational analysis. From such quantitative viewpoints, we compare the usage of “wind” and “moon” in the poems of Li Bai (李白) and Du Fu (杜甫). Colors in poems function like sounds in movies, and ...

POEMS syndrome is a rare conglomeration of disorders associated with plasma cell dyscrasia. The acronym POEMS is derived from main features of the syndrome namely 'polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy and skin lesions'. Other clinical features include presence of sclerotic bone lesions, Castleman's disease, papilledema, pleural effusion, edema, ascites, erythrocyt...

POEMS (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-band, and skin changes) syndrome is characterized by chronic progressive polyneuropathy and plasma-cell dyscrasia. A major diagnostic criterion of POEMS is elevation of circulating vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which is believed to play a pathogenic role in this disease. We report a case of POEMS that presented as relapsing acu...

the purpose of the present paper is to investigate semantic deviation of the holy quran in amal donqol's poetry. deviation is one of the techniques of defamiliarization, and was first introduced by the russian formalists in 1917. constructivist attitude toward literary texts and emphasis on the aesthetic aspects of the literary works led formalists to consider literary language as the main...

The POEMS syndrome is associated with elevated vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) levels. Several studies have compared serum VEGF levels between POEMS patients and other disease entities showing higher serum VEGF in POEMS syndrome; however, it is unknown whether serum levels are reliable and reproducible given variable platelet release of VEGF. We therefore compared plasma levels of VEG...