Background: Substantial reductions in maternal mortality are called for in Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG-5), thus assuming that maternal mortality is measurable. A key difficulty is attributing causes of death for the many women who die unaided in developing countries. Verbal autopsy (VA) can elicit circumstances of death, but data need to be interpreted reliably and consistently to serve ...

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Background and Aims: The insertion of ventriculoperitoneal (VP) and ventriculoatrial (VA) shunts is the first-line treatment of patients with hydrocephalus and normal-pressure hydrocephalus. The provision of a safety profile for shunting in the treatment of hydrocephalus patients is very important. This study aimed to determine the success rates and complications of VP and VA shunting in patien...

Model: Treat IDS as a black box Intrusion detection capability CID = I(X ;Y ) H(X) ): How much (normalized) ground truth information an IDS can identify [Gu et al. ASIACCS’06] take into account all aspects of detection capability an intrinsic measure of intrusion detection capability an objective trade-off between FP and FN (without involving subjective cost) yields a series of related informat...

Cancer is a major public health problem throughout the world. It is estimated that one third of the American population will develop the disease at some time during their lifetimes. Among these, melanoma will account for 7% of the cases. In Brazil, in 2012, it is estimated that over six thousand new melanoma cases occurred. During recent years, the incidence of melanoma has increased, mainly du...

ଝ Influencia del desprendimiento seroso macular en la eficacia del tratamiento con ranibizumab en las oclusiones venosas retinianas Dear Sir: Venous occlusions are a frequent cause of retinal vascular disease , only exceeded by diabetic retinopathy. 1 Macular edema constitutes the main cause of visual acuity loss (VA) and accordingly the therapeutic approach aims at reducing said edema by means...