In the past few years, Open Source (OS) has become a topic for a far more heterogeneous community for both users and developers than it was before. Simultaneously, commercial aspects have gained a broad interest within the field of OS. More and more OS releases arise. Releasing sources under an OS license touches many different technical, legal, business and project management aspects. We devel...

In the past few years, Open Source (OS) has become a topic for a far more heterogeneous community for both users and developers than it was before. Simultaneously, commercial aspects have gained a broad interest within the field of OS. More and more OS releases arise. The question becomes, what does it mean to publish software under an OS-license? Which working steps and aspects need to be take...

OBJECTIVE To review the use of airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) in the treatment of acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome. DATA SOURCE Published animal studies, human studies, and review articles of APRV. DATA SUMMARY APRV has been successfully used in neonatal, pediatric, and adult forms of respiratory failure. Experimental and clinical use of APRV has been shown ...

Compared with arthroscopic release, open release is more commonly used for the treatment of stiff elbow. Flexion is recovered by releasing posterior tethering soft-tissue structures and by removing anterior impingement between the coronoid and/or radial head and the distal humerus. Extension is improved by releasing anterior soft-tissue tethers and by removing impingement between the olecranon ...

BACKGROUND Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common cause of neurological symptomatology. Surgical decompression remains the treatment of choice in patients not responding to conservative therapies. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of standard open decompression by analysis of symptomatic and functional improvement and to assess whether a general surgeon can still perform this op...

Access control solutions for open systems are typically based on the assumption that a client may adopt approached specifically designed for the server to protect the disclosure of her sensitive information. These solutions however do not consider the specific privacy requirements characterizing the client. In this paper, we put forward the idea of adopting a different model at the client-side,...

The pressure for governments to release much of the vast reservoirs of data that they hold continues to grow. This pressure is grounded not just in principles such as the right of the public to know or freedom of information, but in beliefs, what have even been called myths, about the economic, social, administrative and political benefits that will flow from the wide availability of such data....

MOMIS (Mediator EnvirOnment for Multiple Information Sources) is an Open Source Data Integration system able to aggregate data coming from heterogeneous data sources (structured and semistructured) in a semi-automatic way. DataRiver is a Spin-Off of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia that has re-engineered the MOMIS system, and released its Open Source version both for commercial and ac...

in this study, attempts were made to evaluate the effect of various acrylic acid based carbopols on the release profile of a beta-adrenoreceptor blocking drug, propranolol hcl, from matrix-type tablets invitro. for this purpose, tablets containing 160 mg of propranolol hcl along with various amounts of carbopols 934 (c934), 971 (c971), 974 (c974) and pemulen (pem) were prepared using the wet gr...