The study aimed to analyze the themes related to the area of food safety surveillance that were approached in scientific research studies from postgraduate programs, with potential in-service application. A total of 337 theses and dissertations submitted to Universidade de São Paulo between 1993 and 2007 was analyzed. The results showed that research developed in universities can be applied to ...

Background POEMS syndrome is a rare multi-systemic disease characterized by polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes. Arterial or venous thrombosis is a less-common complication of POEMS syndrome. Ischemic stroke has also been reported sporadically. However, the association between POEMS syndrome and ischemic stroke has not been entirely understood. ...

The P300 event-related potential is a well-known pattern in the electroencephalogram (EEG). This kind of brain signal is used for many different brain-computer interface (BCI) applications, e.g., spellers, environmental controllers, web browsers, or for painting. In recent times, BCI systems are mature enough to leave the laboratories to be used by the end-users, namely severely disabled people...

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 ...

The paper studies the breathing patterns for four types of Chinese metrical poems, namely, fivecharacter quatrain, five-character octave, sevencharacter quatrain and seven-character octave. A breathing belt was tied to the chest and the respiratory signal was acquired by EMG. Respiratory parameters were defined regarding the dynamical properties of the signal, and were automatically extracted b...

ayatollah mohammad hossein gheravi isfahani known as compani is one of the contemporary famous scholars and mystics and the author of arabic poems of divan al-anvar al-ghodsieh, entitled as  moftagher. in his persian and arabic divan there are many poems in praise of prophet mohammad's family among which is his long arabic panegyric in praise of imam reza – peace be upon him. the  present ...

BACKGROUND Portal hypertension has a broad differential diagnosis. POEMS syndrome is an uncommon cause of it. POEMS syndrome is a rare disease involving multiple organs. In differential diagnosis of portal hypertension, POEMS syndrome should be considered especially when other symptoms such as numbness, organomegaly, endocrine alteration and skin changes also present, as it is highlighted by ou...

Indian English poetry since the culmination of colonial phase took a decisive and deliberately marked shift from slavish imitation romantic writers like Keats, Byron, Shelly, Wordsworth to more progressive experimental style with methodical thematic innovativeness. It was known as post-independence which heralded arrival new way composing poems an indigenous ‘Indianness’ essence, sabotaging str...

Historically, most mathematicians have believed that mathematical truths such as "2+5=7" exist independently of human minds, being universally and eternally true. Mathematicians believe they are discovering properties of, say, prime numbers, rather than merely inventing them. This view of mathematics dates back to Pythagoras (500 BC) and Plato (400 BC). It is often called “Platonism”. In order ...