OBJECTIVE To investigate response to growth hormone (GH) in the first, second and third years of treatment for all idiopathic GH-deficient (GHD) and idiopathic short stature (ISS) patients in Australia. CONTEXT Eligibility for subsidized GH treatment in Australia is determined on auxological criteria for the indication of Short Stature and Slow Growth (SSSG), which includes ISS (SSSG-ISS). Th...

INTRODUCTION The Internal State Scale (ISS) was developed to simultaneously assess manic and depressive symptoms in bipolar disorder. In the present study, the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of ISS (ISS-TR) were examined. The present study aimed to present the psychometric properties of this scale. METHODS The sample consisted of 200 outpatients with bipolar disorder and 49 h...

Trauma patients with an ISS=75 have been deliberately excluded from some trauma studies because they were assumed to have "unsurvivable injuries." This study aimed to assess the true mortality among patients with an ISS=75, and to examine the characteristics and primary diagnoses of these patients. Retrospective review of the 2006-2010 U.S. Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) generate...

Information Systems Security (ISS) is a critical issue for a wide range of organizations. This paper focuses on organizations belonging to a particular sector, namely Local Public Administration, where public and personal information must be protected by those in charge, and where there must be a concern to view security as a priority. There are several measures which can be implemented in orde...

This paper investigates the input-to-state stability (ISS) properties for stochastic coupled control systems on networks (SCCSNs). With the help of Lyapunov method and graph theory, some inequality techniques and stochastic analysis skills, some sufficient criteria are obtained for eλt-weighted integral ISS in mean and almost sure exponential ISS of SCCSNs. These sufficient criteria are closely...

Time-varying ISS-Lyapunov functions for impulsive systems provide a necessary and sufficient condition ISS. This property makes them more powerful tool stability analysis than classical candidate providing only ISS condition. Moreover, time-varying cover with simultaneous instability in continuous discrete dynamics which remain inconclusive. The present paper links these two concepts by suggest...

In this paper we present a role based approach to the analysis of computer-based information systems (ISs). The concept of work role is a good tool for representing work and division of labour, and the computer supported tasks make no exception of this. Relationships between actors, roles, tasks and computer systems are discussed from the act-oriented perspective. Role based analysis of an acti...

Since the issue of the first regulations concerning the remediation of contaminated sites, the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, on the basis of specific requests, has drawn up various technical opinions regarding the proposed reference values (quality standards) for soils and underground waters, to be achieved when remediating contaminated sites, for substances for which no standard limit values d...