background: the classical supportive therapy for î² -thalassemia major consists of regular blood transfusion, iron-chelation therapy and specific treatment of the related complications. a balance between the maintenance of the highest possible level of haemoglobin and lowest possible level of iron accumulation in heart and liver give the best chance of survival and the best quality of life. met...

Generating high quality synthetic data for testing algorithms and system implementations is challenging. This research designed and developed a tool called QUAlity Synthetic Information Log Generator (Quasi-Log) to facilitate the development and testing of a new series of Information Discovery Systems (IDS) that focus on detecting User Behavior Patterns to improve the quality, security and pote...

Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts placed the first of several retroreflector arrays on the lunar surface. Their continued usefulness for laser ranging might suggest that the lunar environment does not damage optical devices. However, new laser ranging data reveal that the efficiency of the three Apollo reflector arrays is now diminished by a factor of 10 at all lunar phases and by an additiona...