The Registro Informatizado de Enfermedad TromboEmbólica (RIETE Registry) is an ongoing, international, prospective registry of consecutive patients with acute venous thromboembolism (VTE) designed to gather and analyze data on treatment patterns and outcomes in patients with acute VTE. It started in Spain in 2001, and 6 years later the database was translated into English with the aim to expand...

BACKGROUND Efforts to improve quality of care for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are a national priority. To date, there have been few studies that have prospectively evaluated hospital quality improvement (QI) interventions. METHODS AND RESULTS Using hospitals in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) ACTION Registry-GWTG, a cluster randomized trial of the effectiv...

This paper describes the Advanced Forensic Format (AFF), which is designed as an alternative to current proprietary disk image formats. AFF offers two significant benefits. First, it is more flexible because it allows extensive metadata to be stored with images. Second, AFF images consume less disk space than images in other formats (e.g., EnCase images). This paper also describes the Advanced ...

We study the existential closures of several propositional languages L considered recently as target languages for knowledge compilation (KC), namely the incomplete fragments KROM-C, HORN-C, K/H-C, renH-C, AFF, and the corresponding disjunction closures KROM-C[∨], HORN-C[∨], K/H-C[∨], renH-C[∨], and AFF[∨]. We analyze the queries, transformations, expressiveness and succinctness of the resultin...

In the photolithography processing of semiconductor, line width is smaller and smaller. Therefore, the requirements of process window are stricter than before. In the small line width, the formation of serious white wall will affect line width and cause rejects in following process. The study conducted research on the control of best focus in which particularly explored the relationship between...

Static total and lung compliance measurements were made in five healthy term-pregnant women immediately before and after vaginal delivery using a super-syringe and oesophageal balloon. Chest wall compliance was calculated from the formula of Comroe and associates (1962). The influence of supine recumbent v. lithotomy position was also evaluated and compared to five non-pregnant women. Following...

Static total and lung compliance measurements were made in five healthy term-pregnant women immediately before and after vaginal delivery using a super-syringe and oesophageal balloon. Chest wall compliance was calculated from the formula of Comroe and associates (1962). The influence of supine recumbent v. lithotomy position was also evaluated and compared to five non-pregnant women. Following...

Background: In intracavitary brachytherapy for gynecological cancers, various techniques are used to locate the anterior rectal wall nearest to the sources but there is no consensus on the best method to do so. This study aimed to compare a technique used routinely in some centers that employs a wire marker to locate the position of the maximum rectal dose point, versus the method recommended b...

the baluarte do cavaleiro is part of the stone masonry wall system existing in the city ofchaves of portugal and it is a construction dated from the xvii century. the baluarte docavaleiro is formed by three walls (north-east, ne; south-east, se; south-west, sw) andby two junction elements (designated here by cunhais). the se wall has suffered twocollapses recently. the main objective of this re...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Postoperative ileus is a common and poorly understood problem of abdominal surgery. The aim of this study was to measure postoperative intestinal transit and to evaluate bowel wall perfusion by a novel in vivo indocyanine green (ICG)-fluorescence measurement following intestinal manipulation (IM). METHODS Rats underwent a simple intestinal manipulation. Myeloperoxidase-pos...