Objective- To evaluate the clinical safety and superiority of monopolar and bipolar electrocauter in laparoscopic ovariohysterectomy in dogs. Design-Elective experimental study Animals- Twenty four mixed breed healthy adult female dogs. Procedures-The dogs divided into two equal groups. Laparoscopic ovariohysterectomy performed using either monopolar (n=12) or bipolar (n=12) electrocoagulati...

We simulate the process of possible interactions between a set of competitive services, web infrastructure agents (portals) that provide online rating for these services, and users of these services. We argue that to have a profitable business, these portals are forced to have subscribed services that are rated by the portals. We follow the what-if methodology, analysing strategies that a servi...

We explore if the geographic variation in excess body-mass in Norway can be explained by socioeconomic status, as this has consequences for public policy. The analysis was based on individual height and weight for 198,311 Norwegian youth in 2011, 2012 and 2013, stemming from a compulsory screening for military service, which covers the whole population aged seventeen. These data were merged wit...

Portals exist for a large number of topics and they have become quite common on the Internet. So far, researchers have not extensively studied the evolution of portals and only a few portal business models have been reported in the literature. We wonder if Internet portals are following the same evolution path, and what kinds of similarities and differences can be observed. The theoretical refe...

In SOA framework, Portal applications aggregate and render information from multiple sources in easily consumable format to the end users. Web services seem to dominate the integration efforts in SOA. Traditional data-oriented web services require portlet applications to provide specific presentation logic and the communication interface for each web service. This approach is not well suited to...

this study deals with the social capital effects on organization?s performance improvement in municipality. evaluating the social capital amount and the level of people?s performance improvement in the concerned society and investigating the relation between social capital and organization?s performance improvement and describing their variables of theoretical basis, are the goals of this resea...

The paper analyzes the problem of interpretations Gettier problem. author draws a distinction between counterexamples presented in Edmund Gettier’s article and Gettier-style cases, general epistemological supposedly occurring all or many cases. It is argued that there gap associated with an insufficiently defined concept justification, which does not allow talking about without any explicit imp...