Author details Department of Periodontics and Community Dentistry, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, PO box: 65506, Riyadh 11588, Saudi Arabia. Stem Cell Unit, Anatomy Department, Collage of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Endocrine Research Laboratory (KMEB), Odense University Hospital & University of Southern Denmark,...

Background: Early nutritional support in critical illness is important. There exists a debate about whether and when to initiate enteral nutrition as opposed to feeding parenterally. In addition to other indicators, nonspecific indicators such as bowel sound are used in the decision, but there is little evidence to show the value of bowel sound. Methods: Feeding intolerance was assessed and cor...

Valerie Maupin’s best friend had a loved one who needed a kidney. In an act of extraordinary altruism, Maupin offered one of hers, but she was not a match. Then she wondered: If I’m willing to do this for someone I know, why not for someone else whose need is just as great? With that thought, Maupin, a 24-yold nursing student and hair stylist living in San Diego, decided to do something even mo...

Recent work on gravitational geons is extended to examine the stability properties of gravitational and electromagnetic geon constructs. All types of geons must possess the property of regularity, self-consistency and quasistability on a time-scale much longer than the period of the comprising waves. Standard perturbation theory, modified to accommodate timeaveraged fields, is used to test the ...

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This paper addresses the formation of standards in business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. The contrast between the developing of generic standards and sector specific standards is considered and the argument that users will commit to developing sectoral standards while IT vendors will direct their resources to generic standards is restated. Specifically, the emergence of the OASIS committee dev...

From medium-resolution radio images, DR 16 was suspected to be a large cometary nebula. To test this suggestion we obtained a higher resolution (15′′) VLA continuum map. We also analyzed data from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey in continuum, H i line, and IR. These data were supplemented by published near-infrared (J, H, K) stellar photometric results and MSX 8.28 μm data. We suggest that D...

THE advance of scientific knowledge is a combined early differentiation of the Drosophila egg chamber in product of both the contributions of the individual the 1960s. Through painstaking three-dimensional (3D) scientist and the acceptance and authentication of his reconstructions of serially sectioned egg chambers, they or her work over time by the larger scientific community. deciphered the p...

Antonio Colmenarez Brendan Frey Thomas S. Huang Adaptive Systems Department Department of Computer S ien e Be kman Institute Philips Resear h University of Waterloo University of Illinois Briar i Manor, NY 10510 Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Urbana, IL 61801 USA Canada USA Abstra t We des ribe a real-time system for fa e and faial feature dete tion and tra king in ontinuous video. The ore of this s...