Results Patients, 22 (43.1%) were male and 29 (56.9%) were female with age of disease onset 5 (1-10) years, age of diagnosis and onset of therapy were 6.4 (1.3 to 11) years. According to Tel Hashomer criteria, severity score of the disease was 7 (4-10). When compered of height and weight of the patients at the beginning and at the one year of colchicine treatment a significant increase was foun...

A main challenge in the field of sensor networks is energy efficiency to prolong the sensor’s operational lifetime. Due to low-cost hardware, nodes’ placement or hardware design, recharging might be impossible. Since most energy is spent for radio communication, many approaches exist that put sensor nodes into sleep mode with the communication radio turned off. In this paper, we propose a new T...

In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms' decision to abandon, prematurely stop, seriously slow down, or not to start an innovative project. These results are compared with those from other studies in t...

In a previous paper (Figueiredo and Amorim, 2005), we introduced the continuity lines, a compressed description that encapsulates topological and geometrical properties of urban grids. In this paper, we applied this technique to a large database of maps that included cities of 22 countries. We explore how this representation encodes into networks universal features of urban grids and, at the sa...

Abstract Study question In Individuals with raised Sperm DNA Fragmentation Index (DFI), will sperm selection by magnetic activated cell sorting (MACS) or Microfluidic Sorting (MF) optimize the reproductive outcomes? Summary answer MACS MF offer comparable outcomes. There seems no superiority between them. spermDFI, MACS/MF can be considered to results. What is known already It evident that DFI ...