BACKGROUND There is evidence about the benefits of early detection of dementia and subsequent provision of adequate treatment and care. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the acceptance of detection and intervention procedures. These analyses describe the attitudes of general physicians [GPs] toward 1) dementia in general, 2) systematic detection of people with dementia, and 3) an inte...

Global Positioning System (GPS) Technology allows precise determination of location, velocity, direction, and time. The price of GPS receivers is falling rapidly and the applications are growing. PCMCIA receivers that can be connected to any notebook personal computers are available for $300-400 to end consumers. The main goal of this study was to survey current applications of GPS to distribut...

The gray platelet syndrome (GPS) is a rare, autosomal-recessive platelet disorder characterized by thrombocytopenia, large platelets lacking α-granules, and variable bleeding. GPS has been linked to mutations in the neurobeachin-like 2 gene (NBEAL2). We have recently characterized Nbeal2-deficient mice and shown that the absence of Nbeal2 results in defective protein sorting in megakaryocytes (...

The aim of this paper is to consider the problem of node localization for geographical routing protocols in ad hoc networks. We propose a distributed positioning algorithm that does not rely only on GPS-like systems (Global Positioning System). Instead, it is assumed that just a part of the nodes belonging to that network is GPS-compliant. Therefore in this paper it is proposed to give position...

BACKGROUND The purpose was to examine how General Practitioners (GPs) use clinical information and rules from guidelines in their decisions on drug treatment for high cholesterol values. METHODS Twenty GPs were presented with six case vignettes and were instructed to think aloud while successively more information about a case was presented, and finally to decide if a drug should be prescribe...

The name GPS comes from the gray appearance of the platelets in the peripheral blood smear as a result of the absence of -granules. The genetic basis of GPS was recently demonstrated to be due to mutations in NBEAL2. The NBEAL2 gene encodes for the neurobeachin-like 2 (NBEAL2) protein, which is a member of the family of BEACH (BEige And Chediak-Higashi) domain-containing proteins on chromosome ...

Navigation systems assist almost any kind of motion in the physical world including sailing, flying, hiking, driving and cycling. On the other hand, traces supplied by global positioning systems (GPS) can track actual time and absolute coordinates of the moving objects. Consequently, this paper addresses efficient algorithms and data structures for the route planning problem based on GPS data; ...

The use of localization mechanism is essential in wireless sensor networks either for communication protocols (geographic routing protocol) or for application (vehicle tracking). The goal of localization mechanism is to determine either precisely or coarsely the node location using either a global reference (GPS) or a locale one. In this work, we introduce a new localized algorithm which classi...

Mobile, smart devices are already available in everyday life. Most of them offer a rich feature set, including camera, GPS antenna, or even WIFI modules. Navigation software utilizing GPS to acquire location data became very popular on these mobile clients. However, due to hardware restrictions GPS positioning cannot be used for indoor scenarios. In contrast, this paper is focused on navigation...

Mobile, smart devices are already available in everyday life. Most of them offer a rich feature set, including camera, GPS antenna, or even WIFI modules. Navigation software utilizing GPS to acquire location data became very popular on these mobile clients. However, due to hardware restrictions GPS positioning cannot be used for indoor scenarios. In contrast, this paper is focused on navigation...