OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of insulin glargine compared with NPH insulin in patients with type 2 diabetes and in whom OAD (oral anti-diabetics) had failed in Switzerland. METHODS Long-term diabetes outcomes were simulated with the Diabetes Mellitus Model (DMM) over a period of 10 years. The incidences of long-term complications (micro- and mac...

abstract the main objective of this paper is to apply the canalman model in the performance assessing of different water operational scenarios in the west main canal of dez irrigation network. the proposed model was calibrated and validated based on the real data of march and april 2006. the real water operational condition during five months (may to september 2006) was simulated. for this peri...

The objectives of multidatabase transaction management are to avoid the inconsistent retrievals and to preserve the global consistency in the presence of multidatabase updates. In order to maintain the global consistency, the MDBS must ensure the global integrity constraints as well as the global serializability of transactions. The global transaction manager must have the responsibility for gl...

In this talk I will review the present status and future perspectives of some popular extensions of the conventional three-neutrino oscillation scenario, from a purely phenomenological point of view. For concreteness I will focus only on three specific scenarios: non-standard neutrino interactions with matters, models with extra sterile neutrinos, and neutrino decay and decoherence.

This document describes the progress we have made and the lessons we have learned in 1999 under the NASA Grant NAG2-1230 entitled \Application-Speci c Supercomputing". The long-term goal of this research is to accelerate large, irregular scienti c applications which have enormous data sets and which are di cult to parallelize. To accomplish this goal, we are exploring two complementary techniqu...

The combined effect of changing climate and changing nutrient loads from land due to altered land use, sewage water treatment and emissions was studied using a 3-dimensional highresolution coupled physical-biogeochemical model for the Baltic Sea. Results suggest that global warming causes increased water temperatures and reduced sea ice cover, combined (eventually) with increased winter mean wi...