Highlights Best paper award IEEE Int. Middle Eastern Multiconf. on Simul. & Model. Beirut, Lebanon Creation of the Regional network on healthcare engineering (RIS) Members of the board of the French CNRS national research group GDR MACS Co animation of the IMS2 “Intelligent Manufacturing and Services Systems” GDR MACS PPF project with LAMIH, LAGIS and the University Politehnica of Bucharest Int...

Several patient demographic factors, including marital status, have been demonstrated to have prognostic significance for survival in extremity soft tissue sarcoma (ESTS). A study population of 12,546 adult patients diagnosed with ESTS from 1991 to 2010 was identified from the SEER database, a large population-based registry, in order to determine whether overall survival had changed over this ...

rangelands have been composed of different plant species that emergence of phenological stages in every one of them will be influenced by environmental and genetic factors. in order to exploit the time and achieve acceptable performance in each plant species, it is necessary that the emergence of biological phenomena are recorded and studied. the objective of the present study is to survey the ...

Imported dengue cases pose the public health risk for local circulation in European areas, especially southeast France, where the Aedes mosquito is established. Using a capture-recapture method with Chao's estimator, we estimated the annual incidence of dengue fever and the completeness of existing mandatory notification and laboratory network surveillance systems. During 2007-2010, >8,300 case...

1. introduction in recent years, regarding climate changes, the analysis of natural variability of climate at different time scales has attracted a lot of attention. while, the data series with short statistical period just shows a likelihood estimation of a few decades of climate variability, the data series with long period shows the fluctuations of several decades with statistical importance...

BACKGROUND Shortly after the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine recommendation and hence the reimbursement of vaccination costs for the respective age groups in Germany in 2007, changes in the incidence of anogenital warts (AGWs) were observed, but it was not clear at what level the incidence would stabilize and to what extent herd immunity would be present. Given the relatively low HPV vaccina...

BACKGROUND No study to date has systematically examined use, expenditure, and outcomes associated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) use in Taiwan. The aim of this study was to examine ECMO use, expenditure, and outcomes during an 11-year period in Taiwan. METHODS Claims data were collected from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database for patients who received ≥1 E...