This report describes a case of West Nile virus (WNV) meningoencephalitis in a child who presented with fever, headache, seizures, and altered mental status, as well as hyponatremia and bronzing of the skin. Findings that led to the diagnosis of WNV included plasma-cell pleocytosis of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and linear chorioretinitis on ophthalmologic exam. The diagnosis was confirmed by...

An eight year old girl presented to the hospital with chief complaints of vomiting, diarrhea and swelling of the feet for seven days. The examination revealed a normally nourished child with mild pallor and pedal edema. Cardiovascular and respiratory systems examination was normal. There was mild distension of abdomen. The liver was enlarged 2 cm below costal margin, non tender with smooth surf...

Text categorization is a crucial and wellproven method for organizing the collection of large scale documents. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical multi-class text categorization method with global margin maximization. We not only maximize the margins among leaf categories, but also maximize the margins among their ancestors. Experiments show that the performance of our algorithm is compet...

Present-day correlations between leaf physiognomic traits (shape and size) and climate are widely used to estimate paleoclimate using fossil floras. For example, leaf-margin analysis estimates paleotemperature using the modern relation of mean annual temperature (MAT) and the site-proportion of untoothed-leaf species (NT). This uniformitarian approach should provide accurate paleoclimate recons...