Background. Sleep complaints are common in patients with epilepsy (PWE). Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is one of the most reported complaints and its impact is still a matter of debate. Objective. Evaluate the relationship between EDS and epilepsy, with emphasis on prevalence, assessment, and causes. Methods. A systematic review on PubMed database in the last 10 years (2002 to 2012). The s...

in addressing health needs. The purpose of this text is to highlight some of the methodological challenges faced when conducting epidemiological research on epilepsy in resource-poor settings. An acute resource constraint is a dominant underlying feature of health services in developing countries. The treatment gap is huge (reaching more than 90%) in most places. As only a small fraction of PWE...

This transparent cell transport service allows migration of ATM services to a PSN without having to provision the ATM subscriber or customer edge (CE) devices. The ATM CEs will view the ATM transparent cell transport service as if they were directly connected via a Time Division Multiplexer (TDM) leased line. This service is most likely to be used as an internal function in an ATM service provi...

Layer 2 services (such as Frame Relay, Asynchronous Transfer Mode, and Ethernet) can be "emulated" over an MPLS backbone by encapsulating the Layer 2 Protocol Data Units (PDU) and transmitting them over "pseudowires". It is also possible to use pseudowires to provide low-rate Time Division Multiplexed and a Synchronous Optical NETworking circuit emulation over an MPLS-enabled network. This docu...

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Background. Monotherapy is the choice regimen to treat newly diagnosed epilepsies. However, if it fails, several strategies may be followed. Aim. To discuss the treatment options when an initial monotherapy regimen fails. Methods. We reviewed the relevant literature on the topic by using PubMed. Review and Discussion. Approximately 64% of people with epilepsy (PWE) de novo are free of seizures ...

PURPOSE To investigate the association between systemic autoimmune diseases (SAD) and epilepsy and to determine whether the strength of this association is increased in the young. METHODS A meta-analysis was done, analyzing the association between epilepsy and SAD using the available data in Medline and Embase through February 2016. We followed the recommendations of the PRISMA (preferred rep...

BCH codes have high error correcting capability which allows classing them as good cyclic error correcting codes. This important characteristic is very useful in communication and data storage systems. Actually after almost 60 years passed from their discovery, their weights enumerators and therefore their analytical performances are known only for the lengths less than or equal to 127 and only...

The aim of this study was to develop and validate a tool to measure perceived stigma among people with epilepsy (PWE) in Kilifi, Kenya. We reviewed existing scales that measured stigma, particularly of epilepsy. We conducted a qualitative study to determine salient concerns related to stigma in Kilifi. Themes were generated, and those related to stigma were used to construct an 18-item stigma s...

The two dimensional with a triangular-lattice cross sectional pattern of elliptic air holes photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is investigated in detail by use of plan wave expansion (PWE) method. Using PWE method, the dependence of dispersion on structure parameters is calculated. We compared the dispersion relations between the circular air holes PCF and the elliptic one. We find that the flatter d...