Medical literature searches have become more complex because of the increasing amount of published material and the multiple available databases indexing those publications. Although newly graduated physicians may have received some training in literature searching as part of a medical school curriculum, most clinicians have received no formal training in this skill. In today's world of evidenc...

OBJECTIVES While researchers are increasingly recognizing the importance of adjusting waist circumference (WC) for height, no standard has yet been established. In this study we contrast three standard methods for indexing WC by height (using height, root-height and height-squared) via comparisons with age-specific optimal indices. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Measurements from 722 male and 746 f...

The rapid advance of DNA sequencing technologies has yielded databases of thousands of genomes. To search and index these databases effectively, it is important that we take advantage of the similarity between those genomes. Several authors have recently suggested searching or indexing only one reference genome and the parts of the other genomes where they differ. In this paper, we survey the 2...

abstract soil invertebrate and their spatial pattern are affected strongly by environmental factors. spatial variability of soil properties is one of the most important reasons of the macrofauna variability. this study was conducted to investigate the spatial variability of soil properties and soil macrofauna biomass in the riparian forest landscape of karkhe river. soil macro fauna were sample...

To support “Database as a service” (DaaS) in the cloud, the database system is expected to provide similar functionalities as in centralized DBMS such as efficient processing of ad hoc queries. The system must therefore support DBMS-like indexes, possibly a few indexes for each table to provide fast location of data distributed over the network. In such a distributed environment, the indexes ha...

Among the conditions in which creatine kinase (CK)-MB activity is elevated in the absence of myocardial injury or infarction, macroenzyme (macro) CK merits special attention from clinicians. We present 2 cases, 1 with macro CK type 1 and the other with macro CK type 2, to stress the common clinical situations and diagnostic dilemma that clinicians encounter when evaluating patients with macro C...

We define the class of micro-macro stack graphs, a new class of graphs modeling infinite-state sequential systems with a decidable model-checking problem. Micro-macro stack graphs are the configuration graphs of stack automata whose states are partitioned into micro and macro states. Nodes of the graph are configurations of the stack automaton where the state is a macro state. Edges of the grap...

This paper presents Wizard, a generalised framework for learning macro-actions in planning. Wizard suggests macroactions that can be provided as additional actions for future planning. It enhances a domain for a planner through comprehensive macro suggestions. Wizard learns macro-actions for arbitrary planners or domains without exploiting their structural properties. It not only captures macro...

The index selection problem (ISP) concerns the selection of an appropriate indexes set to minimize the total cost for a given workload under storage constraint. Since the ISP has been proven to be an NP-hard problem, most studies focus on heuristic algorithms to obtain approximate solutions. The problem becomes more difficult for indexes defined on multiple tables such as bitmap join indexes, s...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between the nutritional status and handgrip strength of older people in rural Malawi. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING : Lilongwe rural, Malawi, situated approximately 35-50 km from the city. SUBJECTS Ninety seven males and 199 females participated in this study. METHODS Selected anthropometric measurements were taken and nutrition indices were...