The purpose of this short article is to help authors get their research published. First, I would like to call attention to two excellent articles in the September 2011 issue of the Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal (FCSRJ). First, Robert Nielsen (2011) describes cues for quality in quantitative research. Second, Nancy Hodges (2011) explains five frequently articulated qualms (FAQs) a...

The number of publications in biomedicine is increasing enormously each year. To help researchers digest the information in these documents, text mining tools are being developed that present co-occurrence relations between concepts. Statistical measures are used to mine interesting subsets of relations. We demonstrate how directionality of these relations affects interestingness. Support and c...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been designed in accordance with the way people have conceptualized space (Freundschuh & Egenhofer, 1997). While the reality is tridimensional in nature, paradoxically, its representation has been for long decades dominated by the metaphor of the paper map. This has resulted to two separate models: 2D GIS models and Digital Terrain Models (DTM). “The th...

Introduction Currently, three types of therapy are approved for the treatment of exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD): laser photocoagulation, photodynamic therapy with Verteporfin and intravitreal injections of antiangiogenic agents (Ranibizumab and Pegaptanib). Other treatments revealed to be ineffective or even more aggressive than natural disease progression. Examples of these l...

Having stealth and lightweight authentication methods is empowering network administrators to shelter critical services from adversaries. Spread-Spectrum TCP (SSTCP) [1] is one of these methods by which the client sends an authentic sequence of SYN packets to the server for authentication. Since SSTCP have some certain drawbacks and security flaws, we propose an enhanced version of SSTCP (ESSTC...

1. Shigeoka J. Demand valves for oxygen therapy: your mileage may vary (editorial). Respir Care 2004;(49)2:156–157. 2. Heimlich HJ. Respiratory rehabilitation with transtracheal oxygen system. Ann Otol Rhino Laryngol 1982;91(6 Pt 1):643–647. 3. Christopher KL, Spofford BT, Petrun MD, McCarty DC, Goodman JR, Petty TL. A program for transtracheal oxygen delivery: assessment of safety and efficacy...

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a clinically challenging disease with high interpatient variability in response to chemotherapy. Despite continuing advances in treatment options, current 5-year survival rates for pediatric AML are suboptimal at ~60%. Variability in treatment response and survival outcomes are due in part to the heterogeneous nature of AML, with many genetic les...

1. How came a retrospective study based on information retrieved from routine client charts have their ethnic group, occupation and duration of labor included. This could be verified by just checking at random any patient chart on UVP or other clinical diagnosed cases of other clinical disciplines for that matter unless a prospective design made it possible to collect all relevant information r...

C hild health promotion activities offer some of the most cost-effective interventions that any government can make. Many child disease prevention activities are affordable, can be delivered effectively and offer decades of good health for a modest investment. This chapter focuses on some key health promotion activities in South Africa including: immunisation, the Integrated Management of Child...