It has been estimated that in Argentina, rotavirus causes approximately 80,000 to 100,000 clinic consultations annually and is responsible for 40% of acute diarrhea related hospital admissions in children under 5 years. In this study, national rotavirus surveillance data from 2009-2011 was consulted to asses prevalence, seasonality, age-group distribution as well as the national and regional ge...

Material and methods A total of 252 Icelandic horses (≥ 4 years; 142 geldings, 101 mares, 9 stallions) from 46 different barns were included. All horses were assigned a BCS on a scale from 1-9 (1 is poor, 5 is moderate and 9 is extremely fat) by their owner and by an experienced person. A horse with a BCS of ≥7 is considered to be obese. Two weight tapes (WT) were used to asses BW. Neck circumf...

To asses the sensitivity of conclusions to model choices in the context of selection models for non-random dropout, several methods have been developed. None of them are without limitations. A new method called kernel weighted influence is proposed. While global and local influence approaches look upon the influence of cases, this new method looks at the influence of types of observations. The ...

The purpose of the research described in this paper is to propose a framework and supporting tools that will help software companies to establish formalised methods that will be technically and socially sound with their needs. Following the framework the companies can asses and improve their existing ways of working, capture them into formalised methods and continuously enrich them based on the...

Our aim was to asses the efficacy of deep brain stimulation in post-stroke neuropathic pain. Since 2000, 15 patients with post-stroke intractable neuropathic pain were treated with deep brain stimulation of the periventricular gray area (PVG), sensory thalamus (Ventroposterolateral nucleus-VPL) or both. Pain was assessed using both a visual analogue scale and the McGill's pain questionnaire. VA...

We propose a paradigm for modeling speech production based on neural networks. We focus on characteristics of the musculoskeletal system. Using real physiological data articulator movements and EMG from muscle activitya neural network learns the forward dynamics relating motor commands to muscles and the ensuing articulator behavior. After learning, simulated perturbations, were used to asses p...

We examine deployment strategies for text translation and text summarization tasks. We formalize a deployment strategy along three dimensions: work structure, workforce organization, and work style. Work structure can be either simultaneous or sequential, workforce organization independent or collaborative, and work style either crowd-only or hybrid. We use Amazon Mechanical Turk to evaluate th...

With the increasing growth of the size and complexity of modern safetycritical systems, the demand for model based engineering methods that both help in architecting such systems and to asses their safety and correctness becomes increasingly obvious. Causality checking is an automated method for formal causality analysis of system models and system execution traces. In this paper we report on w...

Reflection on one’s own behaviour and practice is an important aspect of lifelong learning. However, such practice and the underlying assumed principles are often hidden from the learner’s vision, and are therefore difficult to evaluate. Social interactions with others stimulate the learner to re-asses and reflect on the nature of the learner’s own behaviour and practice, such as in professiona...

Introduction: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is common orthopaedic operations with low complication rates. In the preoperative knee, 90° flexion allows the popliteal artery (PA) to move safely backward from the tibia [1]. However, this surgery is in close proximity to the PA, the behavior of which during flexion of the prosthetic knee is poorly understand. Especially, there is little appropriate...