INTRODUCTION Although Caesarean sections (CSs) are among the most commonly undertaken procedures in the world, there are wide variations in the surgical techniques used. This study aimed to: (a) review the surgical techniques used for CS by obstetricians working in a tertiary hospital in Singapore; (b) compare the techniques with those recommended in evidence-based guidelines; and (c) examine t...

The web application PCR Suite is an extension of the primer design program Primer3. It allows the design of primer sets encompassing single nucleotide polymorphisms, all exons of a single gene, all open reading frames in a list of cDNAs or the creation of overlapping PCR products.

In this paper, we describe the second release of a suite of language analysers, developed over the last five years, called wraetlic, which includes tools for several partial parsing tasks, both for English and Spanish. It has been successfully used in fields such as Information Extraction, thesaurus acquisition, Text Summarisation and Computer Assisted Assessment.

We present a graph processing benchmark suite with the goal of helping to standardize graph processing evaluations. Fewer differences between graph processing evaluations will make it easier to compare different research efforts and quantify improvements. The benchmark not only specifies graph kernels, input graphs, and evaluation methodologies, but it also provides optimized baseline implement...

IMPACT The Lixto Price Intelligence Suite is a solution that extracts price-comparison information from competitor online web channels and combines it with internal data sources so organizations gain greater visibility into the factors that might influence price. The suite works by navigating and extracting competitive product and pricing information from predefined online data sources before s...

One of the important steps in processing the worst case execution time (WCET) of a program is to determine the loops upper bounds. Such bounds are crucial when verifying real-time systems. In a previous paper we have presented our loop bound evaluation method oRange based on three steps: normalization of loops, building expression of the bounds, applying the context to the expression. This pape...

This paper describes the Integrated Remote Neurosurgical System (IRNS), a remotely-operated neurosurgical microscope with high-speed communications and a surgeon-accessible user interface. The IRNS will allow high quality bidirectional mentoring in the neurosurgical suite. The research goals of this effort are twofold: to develop a clinical system allowing a remote neurosurgeon to lend expertis...