BACKGROUND In recent decades, community pharmacies reported a change of business model, whereby a shift from traditional services to the provision of extended roles was observed. However, such delivery of extended pharmacy services (EPS) is reported from the developed world, and there is scarcity of information from the developing nations. Within this context, the present study was aimed to exp...

We introduce a new kind of patterns, called emerging patterns (EPs), for knowledge discovery from databases. EPs are deened as itemsets whose supports increase signiic-antly from one dataset to another. EPs can capture emerging trends in timestamped databases, or useful contrasts between data classes. EPs have been proven useful: we have used them to build very powerful classiiers, which are mo...

Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) is a devastating complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD), characterized by marked inflammation and severe fibrosis of the peritoneum, and associated with high morbidity and mortality. EPS can occur years after termination of PD and, in severe cases, leads to intestinal obstruction and ileus requiring surgical intervention. Despite ongoing research, the ...

conclusions we suggest avoiding the use of tamoxifen for eps in patients with superimposed calciphylaxis. introduction encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (eps) is a rare but devastating complication of peritoneal dialysis (pd). tamoxifen has been generally well-tolerated, even without randomized controlled trials. case presentation herein, we report a case of a patient undergoing 12 years of pd...

Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) is a rare disease in patients who have undergone peritoneal dialysis (PD). We report a case of EPS following renal transplantation that highlights important clinical issues. Initially, a presumptive diagnosis of EPS was made following surgical and pathological findings at the time of cholecystectomy. CT imaging at this time did not confirm the diagnosis....

Not all phosphorus removed in activated sludge systems can be accounted for by polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAO). A method for the qualitative and quantitative in situ characterization of PAO cell clusters and closely associated extracellular polysaccharides (EPS) is described. X-ray microanalysis was performed on samples from four activated sludge plants situated in Pretoria, South Af...

The 3 Generation Partnership Project(3GPP) standard is developing System Architecture Evolution(SAE) / Long Term Evolution(LTE) for the next generation mobile communication system. In the SAE/LTE architecture, EPS AKA(Evolved Packet System Authentication and Key Agreement) procedure is used to provide mutual authentication between the UE(User Equipment) and the serving network. However the EPS ...

Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) is a rare but severe complication of peritoneal dialysis. It has been reported that the condition of patients with EPS may improve after renal transplantation. However, there are also several reports of EPS occurring after renal transplantation. In this report, we present a patient who developed EPS combined with gastrointestinal cytomegalovirus infectio...

Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) is an uncommon but one of the most serious complications in patients on long-term peritoneal dialysis (PD). The diffuse thickening and sclerosis of the peritoneal membrane that characterizes EPS leads to decreased ultrafiltration and ultimately to bowel obstruction. Given that the prognosis of established EPS is poor, early recognition of the preceding s...

This paper examines factors which lead to the failure of electronic payment systems (EPS). In order to understand these factors a single case study of a failed Australian EPS was conducted. The findings confirm the influence of EPS adoption factors identified from the literature, which include cooperation with established entities, simplicity, trust, security and mutuality of stakeholder benefi...