Luekemic infiltration of the prostate is unusual. Acute urinary retention as an initial presentation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia is found only in sporadic cases. Organ confmed adenocarcinoma of prostate associated with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and presenting as acute urinary retention is to our knowledge not reported in literature. This report documents a case of acute urinary retention...

Human memory is imperfect; thus, periodic review is required for the long-term preservation of knowledge and skills. However, students at every educational level are challenged by an ever-growing amount of material to review and an ongoing imperative to master new material. We developed a method for efficient, systematic, personalized review that combines statistical techniques for inferring in...

Objectives To investigate mortality in men admitted to hospital with acute urinary retention and to report on the effects of comorbidity on mortality. Design Analysis of the hospital episode statistics database linked to themortality database of the Office for National Statistics. Setting NHS hospital trusts in England, 1998-2005. Participants All men aged over 45 who were admitted to NHS hospi...

The goal of predicting student behavior on the immediate next action has been investigated by researchers for many years. However, a fair question is whether this research question is worth all of the attention it has received. This paper investigates predicting student performance after a delay of 5 to 10 days, to determine whether, and when, the student will retain the material seen. Although...

Neural projection models are applied in this study to the analysis of Human Resources (HR) from a Knowledge Management (KM) standpoint. More precisely, data projections are combined with the glyph metaphor to analyse KM data and to gain deeper insight into patterns of knowledge retention. Following a preliminary study, the retention of specialized employees in hi-tech companies is investigated,...