BACKGROUND Pain is an important issue in end of life care. Although musculoskeletal pain is common in older adults, it is rarely associated with the cause of death and may be overlooked as death approaches. Hence a major target for improving quality of life may be being missed. METHODS The aim of this study was to systematically search and critically review the literature on musculoskeletal p...

The Hypertext-based Webs such as Intranets contain a vast amount of information pertaining to an enormous number of subjects. It is, however, an organically grown and thus essentially structureless environment that is in a constant state of flux. Therefore, finding useful information pertaining to a particular topic is oftentimes a difficult task. Search engines were designed with the intent of...

Repeating targets and distractors on consecutive visual search trials facilitates search performance, whereas switching targets and distractors harms search. In addition, search repetition leads to biases in free choice tasks, in that previously attended targets are more likely to be chosen than distractors. Another line of research has shown that attended items receive high liking ratings, whe...

cost optimization of the reinforced concrete cantilever soil retaining wall of a given height satisfying some structural and geotechnical design constraints is performed utilizing harmony search and improved harmony search algorithms. the objective function considered is the cost of the structure, and design is based on aci 318-05. this function is minimized subjected to design constraints. a n...

background: hypertension is a significant public health concern of world‑wide distribution and is also the most common cardiovascular disease risk factor. adequate control of blood pressure is a critical element in the prevention of hypertension induced‑organ damage and life‑threatening complications. prevention of hypertension is possible and early detection and effective treatment can signifi...

background: primary hyperhidrosis (ph) refers to excessive sweating, beyond normal physiological levels, in specific sites of the body for unknown reasons. it is usually bilateral and is most prominent in the palms, axillae, feet, and face. ph prevalence is estimated to be 0%-6.1% in different populations. it usually begins in childhood and is more frequent in women. in 57% of cases, there is a...

Modern search engines leverage a variety of sources, beyond the conventional query-document content similarity, to improve their ranking performance. Among them, query context has attracted attention in prior work. Previously, query context was mainly modeled by user search history, either long-term or short-term, to help the ranking of future queries. In this paper, we focus on situational con...

Reactive search techniques typically rely on the search history in order to adapt heuristics to the local conformation of the search space. By viewing search history as the trace of the optimization program, we aim to apply strategies for learning from example-traces, as developed in the fields of machine learning and inductive logic programming. We believe that Proof Tree Kernels, which we rec...