Acute respiratory infections are a major cause of mortality and morbidity in young children worldwide .ARIs are heterogeneous group of diseases with different causative factors and it affects different parts of respiratory tract. In this study two teaching strategies used to improve the knowledge of mothers regarding acute respiratory infections in under-five children. The aim of the study was ...

The aim of this paper is to describe I-Sim, a simulation tool that is a fully integrated part of the underlying agent framework, I-X. I-Sim controls a discrete event simulator, based on the same activity model that is shared between all I-X components, and multiple process-level simulators that model the continuous change caused by actions that are considered as primitives by the rest of the sy...

1 This paper introduces AutonoVi-Sim, a novel high-fidelity simulation platform for testing au2 tonomous driving algorithms. AutonoVi-Sim is a collection of high-level extensible modules 3 which allows for the rapid development and testing of vehicle configurations, and facilitates con4 struction of complex road networks. Autonovi-Sim supports multiple vehicles with unique steering 5 or acceler...

Subcutaneous or intrastrap muscular (SIM) recurrence is rare in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) patients, and its clinical significance remains unclear. We analyzed 29 patients with PTC who showed SIM recurrence in order to elucidate this issue. The incidence of patient age 55 years or older at initial surgery, extrathyroid extension, and clinically detected lymph node metastasis was 83%, 35%...

Direct infusion nanoelectrospray Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (DI nESI FT-ICR MS) offers high mass accuracy and resolution for analyzing complex metabolite mixtures. High dynamic range across a wide mass range, however, can only be achieved at the expense of mass accuracy, since the large numbers of ions entering the ICR detector induce adverse space-charge effect...

It has been shown tha t d isubstituted butadiynes react with (Ph3P)2N i(C2H 4) [1] or (cod)2Ni [2] in the presence of Ph3P to yield m ononuclear complexes (Ph3P)2N i(//2( l :2 ) -R 'C = C C = C R ) (R ' = R = SiM e3 (1), 'B u (2) Ph (3) and R ' = 'Bu, R = SiMe3 (4) ör R ' = Ph, R = SiM e3 (5)) or dinuclear com plexes {(Ph3P)2Ni}2(//-? /2(l :2),^2(3 :4 ) -R 'C = C -C = C R ) (R ' = R = SiM e3 (6...

The recent emergence of data mining as a major application of machine learning has led to increased interest in fast rule induction algorithms. These are able to efficiently process large numbers of examples, under the constraint of still achieving good accuracy. If e is the number of examples, many rule learners have O(e4) asymptotic time complexity in noisy domains, and C4.5RULES has been emp...

In this paper we discuss the distributed simulation of agent-based systems in HLA. Using the SIM AGENT toolkit and the Tileworld scenario as an example, we present a design proposal showing how the HLA can be used to distribute a SIM AGENT simulation with different agents being simulated by different federates. We outline the changes necessary to the SIM AGENT toolkit to allow integration with ...

Password-based Authenticated Key-Exchange (PAKE) protocols allow users, who need only to share a password, to compute a high-entropy shared session key despite passwords being taken from a dictionary. Security models for PAKE protocols aim to capture the desired security properties that such protocols must satisfy when executed in the presence of an active adversary. They are usually classified...

In the past few years, there has been intense interest in designing and studying peer-to-peer networks. Many initial measurement studies on current deployed peer-topeer networks attempted to understand their performance [10, 11, 12]. However, the large size and complex nature of these networks make it difficult to analyze their properties. Simulation of these peer-to-peer networks enables a met...