There is an error in the order of authors. The correct order is: Soo Fan Ang , Elizabeth ShuHui Ng, Huihua Li, Yu-Han Ong, Su Pin Choo, Joanne Ngeow, Han Chong Toh, Kiat Hon Lim, Hao Yun Yap, Chee Kiat Tan, London Lucien Peng Jin Ooi, Peng Chung Cheow, Alexander Yaw Fui Chung, Pierce Kah Hoe Chow, Kian Fong Foo, Min-Han Tan 1 Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singa...

ICU mortality scoring systems attempt to predict patient mortality using predictive models with various clinical predictors. Examples of such systems are APACHE, SAPS and MPM. However, most such scoring systems do not actively look for and include interaction terms, despite physicians intuitively taking such interactions into account when making a diagnosis. One barrier to including such terms ...

Language is a uniquely human phenomenon. People are able to communicate infinite ideas to one another through the use of words. Across the world people communicate in numerous different languages. Although people readily attain proficiency at any language they are exposed to as a child, the difficulties of learning a language later in life, past the critical period, are well known. While the co...

Cindy Olivia, Carlos F. Enguix, Chee-Fon Chang and Aditya K. Ghose Decision Systems Laboratory University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia 2522 Abstract This paper presents the Web CBR-BDI agent architecture for effective and intelligent real-time search on welldemarcated domains on the WWW. The proposed architecture is based upon the integration of case-based reasoning (CBR) with the BDI agent ar...

Privacy preservation is an important issue in the release of data for mining purposes. The k-anonymity model has been introduced for protecting individual identification. Recent studies show that a more sophisticated model is necessary to protect the association of individuals to sensitive information. In this paper, we propose an (α, k)-anonymity model to protect both identifications and relat...

1 Brimacombe J, Richardson C, Keller C, Donald S. Mechanical closure of the vocal cords with the laryngeal mask airway ProSeal. Br J Anaesth 2002; 88: 296–7 2 Kawauchi Y, Nakazawa K, Ishibashi S, Kaneko Y, Ishikawa S, Makita K. Unilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve neuropraxia following placement of a ProSeal laryngeal mask airway in a patient with CREST syndrome. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2005; 4...

Shoot growth, chlorophyll concentrations, gas exchange and starch concentrations were studied in lychee (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) seedlings of cultivar "Wai Chee" grown in a heated greenhouse at Nambour in subtropical Australia (27 degrees S). We also examined the effects of shoot defoliation and root pruning on leaf expansion. Shoot growth showed a rhythmic cycle under constant greenhouse condi...

Ying-Ming Wang , Jian-Bo Yang, Dong-Ling Xu, Kwai-Sang Chin a Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK b School of Public Administration, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, PR China c Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee, Kowloon, Hong Kong Abstract In a paper by Chen...

Advances in neuroimaging permit in vivo investigation of the structural and functional neurobiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Recent reviews of structural and functional neuroimaging in PTSD are discussed together with recent studies. The significance of the findings is limited by the disparate groupings of PTSD trauma exposures, making generalization difficult, and this, combin...

Introduction Studies in sensing of biomolecules such as DNAs, RNAs and bacterial pathogens have grown rapidly and triggered many applications in biological research. Previously reported techniques have shown great significance in the area of medical tests, environmental monitoring and medicine (Cooper, 2002). Sensitivity and selectivity of the detection have been improved by fluorescent tagging...