Gerard Salton is often credited with developing the vector space model (VSM) for information retrieval (IR). Citations to Salton give the impression that the VSM must have been articulated as an IR model sometime between 1970 and 1975. However, the VSM as it is understood today evolved over a longer time period than is usually acknowledged, and an articulation of the model and its assumptions d...

The concept of developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) grew from the earlier concept of fetal origins of adult disease (FOAD) (reviewed in Barker 1995, 1998). There are two important reasons forthechange.Thefirstresults fromthelargeamount of research (much of it reviewed in this book) showing that the early life events which determine in part the risk of later disease occur not only...

The Smart information retrieval project emphasizes completely automatic approaches to the understanding and retrieval of large quantities of text. We continue our work in TREC 7, concentrating on high precision retrieval. In particular, we present an in-depth analysis of our High-Precision Track results, including ooering evaluation approaches and measures for time dependent evaluation. We part...

A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of sensor nodes (SNs) with wireless communication capabilities for specific sensing tasks. Each SN maintains connectivity and exchanges messages between the decentralized nodes in the multi-hop manners. A source node can communicate with its destination via a certain number of relaying nodes, which consequently enlarges the wireless coverage of the sourc...

TOPIC: Imaging TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary nodules are common and usually found incidentally in about 20-50 % Chest Computed Tomography (CT) scans screening trials.[1] Evaluation of is necessary as differential broad includes malignancy, infectious diseases like tuberculosis (TB), hamartomas, sarcoidosis, wegner's granulomatosis, granulomas.[2] There have...

TOPIC: Cardiovascular Disease TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Cardiac involvement in myasthenia gravis (MG) is extremely rare. Antibody (Ab) induced myocarditis MG patients can be difficult to distinguish from myasthenic crisis (MC). Both conditions lead dyspnea and orthopnea, especially with bulbar involvement. If clinicians are unaware, troponin (Tn) elevation electr...

TOPIC: Chest Infections TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapid growing NTM that rarely causes pulmonary disease in immunocompetent individuals. We present an unusual case of young, woman with protracted and complicated clinical course infection. CASE PRESENTATION: A 39 years old female presented two month history right sided pleuritic chest ...

Background The Lewis Y (CD174) carbohydrate antigen is widely expressed in primary and metastatic epithelial tumors like colon, lung, ovarian, breast. Targeting for cancer therapy was pursued before, however, other anti-Lewis antibodies tested clinical trials showed cross-reactivity to related structures on blood cells mostly failed efficacy and/or safety reasons. 1–4 We have developed a humani...

TOPIC: Lung Cancer TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Endometrial cancer (EC) is among the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in female patients. Its incidence has increased through years, being approximately 49,560 cases and 8,190 from EC 2013, to 63,230 new 11,350 2018. fourth most common fifth cause death females. Metastasis with usual sites lymph nodes, omentum, ...