Abstract Background Patients with injection drug use (IDU) have increased risk of developing infective endocarditis (IE). Previous studies reported recurrent IE, duration hospital stay, poor adherence and compliance as well higher mortality worse outcomes after surgery in the IDU-IE patient group. Further are needed to provide a basis for optimized care prevention readmissions this population. ...

apres avoir presente l'origine, ie spectre de rayonnement et la totalite' de l'energie solaire arrivant sur la terre, nous citons tout d'abord les methodes et moyens d'utilisation de l'energie solaire dans ie passe(. nous presentons ensuite, les capteurs plans, concentration lineaire et ponctuelle; les moteurs et centrales solaires. puis nous discutons des generate...

The creation of the WTO revived the use of "safeguard" measures to protect troubled industries against surges in import competition. Many of these measures have now been challenged in the WTO dispute resolution process, and in each case the process has found the challenged measure to be a violation of WTO law. This paper examines the WTO rules on safeguards from an economic perspective, and off...

Instruction-giving systems for virtual interactive 3D worlds have a wide range of applications in education, games and others. This paper discusses the computational task of referring expression generation for systems of this kind, focusing on the use of spatial relations to describe domain objects. Resumo. Sistemas de geração de instruções em mundos virtuais interativos 3D possuem uma ampla ga...

The present study was carried out to characterize the cervical mucus (CM) collected when inseminating Holstein cows and to relate the secretion pattern with pregnancy. The mucus was collected from mid-cervix of 64 cows with spontaneus estrus (SE) and induced estrus (IE). The quantity, pattern and consistency of the mucus, pH, arborization patterns and the sperm motility were observed. The level...