Cauda equina syndrome (CES) is often defined as a complex of symptoms and signs consisting of low back pain, bilateral sciatica, lower extremity weakness, saddle anesthesia, and bowel and bladder dysfunction. CES is considered to be neurosurgical emergency. Delayed or missed diagnosis of CES can result in serious morbidity and neurological sequelae. However, the diagnosis of CES is often diffic...

A spot-adaptive compound clustering-enhancement-segmentation (CES) scheme was developed for the quantification of gene expression levels in microarray images. The CES-scheme employed 1/griding, for locating spotregions, 2/Fuzzy C-means clustering, for segmenting spots from background, 3/ background noise estimation and spot’s center localization, 4/emphasizing of spot’s outline by the CLAHE ima...

The Center for Epidemiologic Studies–Depression (CES-D) scale is a well-known self-report instrument that is used to measure depressive symptomatology. Respondents who take the fulllength version of the CES-D are administered a total of 20 items. This article investigates the use of curtailment and stochastic curtailment (SC), two sequential analysis methods that have recently been proposed for...

OBJECTIVE We determined the reliability and validity of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) against the DSM-IV-based diagnostic inventory, Schedule for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN), in a multiethnic sample of adult subjects with diabetes attending a diabetes center in Singapore. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 522 subjects (74.7% Chinese, 11.1...

—We developed novel conditional expressions (CEs) for Lane and Bates' blind deconvolution. The CEs are given in term of the derivatives of the zero-values of the z-transform of given images. The CEs make it possible to automatically detect multiple blur convolved in the given images all at once without performing any analysis of the zero-sheets of the given images. We illustrate the multiple bl...

Cauda equina syndrome (CES) although uncommon, is a very serious condition, which should be diagnosed as soon as possible. Urinary dysfunction following a lumbosacral trauma is a key for the physician to consider CES as the most probable diagnosis. Up to 62% of CES patients report a recent episode of trauma. We herein report a young man with CES due to sacral fracture with an interesting imaging.

objective: depression is the most common co-morbid psychiatric disorder in patients with epilepsy. yet it remains under recognized and under-treated. for depression screening in this patient need to a convenient questionnaire for patients with epilepsy. this questionnaire has shown high sensitivity for depression screening in many studies. the center for epidemiological studies depression scale...

georges ohnet et jules verne comptent parmi les romanciers célèbres de la deuxième moitié du xixe siècle, verne étant plus connu et le plus universel, bien entendu. tous deux sont considérés comme des romanciers populaires, le deuxième dans le genre du roman d’anticipation et d’aventures et le premier dans celui du roman de mœurs. les deux étaient influencés par le plus grand phénomène du siècl...

Schema evolution is the ability of the database to respond to changes in the real world by allowing the schema to evolve. The multidimensional conditionally evolving schema(MD-CES) is a conceptual model for conditional schema changes, which modify the schema of those tuples that satisfy the change condition. The MD-CES is lossless and preserves schemas, but has an exponential space complexity. ...