Time adverbials introduced by until impose restrictions on the aspectual class of the main clause they combine with: they only combine with durative sentences. In negative sentences, the situation is more complex. The question arises whether negative sentences are durative, or whether there is a separate use of until as a negative polarity item. In this paper, I discuss the three treatments of ...

An alternative to the typical technique of selecting training examples independently from a fixed distribution is fonnulated and analyzed, in which the current example is presented repeatedly until the error for that item is reduced to some criterion value, ~; then, another item is randomly selected. The convergence time can be dramatically increased or decreased by this heuristic, depending on...

BACKGROUND Reduced glomerular filtration rate is an important predictor of cardiovascular disease and death. Genetic polymorphisms, particularly in genes involved in the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), may influence the rate of renal function decline. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We examined the relation between specific single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), including those in the RAS, ap...

The “evidence” is evidence-based medicine, which defines therapeutic efficacy and safety for specific pharmacological interventions. The “weight” or power of evidence in support of treatment is maximum when determined by large, placebo-controlled, randomized trials (Level A), less definite when based on smaller randomized trials and/or clinical registries (Level B), and least reliable when depe...

Dermoscopy is already considered a fairly established method for diagnosing scabies. This is because dermoscopy enables the visualization both of the burrow and the mite itself, forming the so-called "jet with a contrail" structure. In the present report we present an extraordinary case of a patient with scabies lesions on the face and neck, which was misdiagnosed during sequential visits and u...

Bu yazıda, sol brakiyalis kasında primer lenfomatöz tutulumu olan 52 yaşındaki kadın hasta, ultrasonografi (USG) ve magnetik rezonans (MRG) görüntüleme tetkikleri ile elde edilen bulguları ile birlikte sunulmaktadır. Multimodalite görüntüleme ve iskelet lenfomasının prezentasyon şekli ve görüntüleme bulgularının bilinmesi ayırıcı tanıda ve lenfoma ön tanısında önemli rol oynamıştır. USG kılavuz...

Betweenness centrality is a distance-based invariant of graphs. In this paper, we use lexicographic product to compute betweenness centrality of some important classes of graphs. Finally, we pose some open problems related to this topic.

In 2004, the Healthcare Leadership Alliance, which includes the American Association of Nurse Executives and other health care executives, identified a core set of competencies for executive leaders in health care. The identified core competencies for nurse executives in health care were: (a) leadership, (b) business skills and principles, (c) communication and relationship management, (d) prof...

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis made good on her brash announcement that “there‟s a new sheriff in town” by choosing David Michaels as her Assistant Secretary for OSHA, and Jordan Barab as his Deputy Assistant. Both are mounting a national posse to round up and hang employers. Michaels hit the ground running, calling for – among other things – increased penalties and more aggressive enforcement ...