Critical illness myopathy (CIM) is characterized by a preferential loss of the motor protein myosin, muscle wasting, and impaired muscle function in critically ill intensive care unit (ICU) patients. CIM is associated with severe morbidity and mortality and has a significant negative socioeconomic effect. Neuromuscular blocking agents, corticosteroids, sepsis, mechanical ventilation, and immobi...

The increasing burden of chronic diseases presents not only challenges to the knowledge and expertise of the professional medical community, but also highlights the need to improve the quality and relevance of clinical research in this domain. Many patients now turn to complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) to treat their chronic illnesses; however, there is very little evidence to guide ...

CIM is the standard formalism for modeling management information developed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) in the context of its WBEM proposal, designed to provide a conceptual view of the managed environment. In this paper, we propose the inclusion of formal knowledge representation techniques, based on Description Logics (DLs) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL), in CIM-based...

A distributed system is composed of various resources which have mutually complicated dependencies. The fact increases an importance of the dependency resolution facility which makes it possible to check if there is given dependency between resources such as a router, and to determine which resources have given dependencies with other resources. This paper addresses a CIM query facility for dep...

In this paper, we propose a set of mappings and an implementation of an integration agent allowing WBEM-based agents implementing a CIM information model to be managed by OSI-based management platforms and applications, Extending existing integration approaches, this paper provides three original items that are the support of the CIM meta-model in an 0S1 agent, the mapping of relationships onto...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Manufacturing Engineering together with the Navy Manufacturing Technology Program and the Air Force WRDC/MTI program jointly sponsored the first conference to address the problems associated with designing and implementing a system architecture for Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM). More than 125 people attended from the West G...

BACKGROUND This study is to evaluate the predictive value of FDG-PET (PET) in pediatric and adolescent patients suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma (pNHL) in comparison to information provided by conventional imaging methods (CIM). METHODS Imaging was performed at baseline and at interim (after 2 cycles of chemotherapy). The response assessment in PET was carried out visually and semi-quantit...

A 1D Canopy Interface Model (CIM) is developed to act as an interface between a meso-scale and a micro-scale atmospheric model and to better resolve the surface turbulent fluxes in the urban canopy layer. A new discretisation is proposed to solve the TKE equation finding solutions that remain fully concordant with the surface layer theories developed for neutral flows over flat surfaces. A corr...

This paper proposes an MDA approach to knowledge engineering, centered on the CommonKADS knowledge model. The latter corresponds to the CIM level of MDA whereas PRR, which represents production rules and rulesets, corresponds to the PIM level. The paper explores the mapping between CommonKADS knowledge models and production rules and rulesets based on PRR. Mapping CommonKADS knowledge models in...

The identity of the polymorphic form of an active pharmaceutical ingredient is an important parameter that may affect the performance of the drug formulation. This calls for special techniques, able to classify crystal forms or assign the polymorphic identity to a given solid in a mixture. In order to develop a method to determine which of the relevant polymorphs of Cimetidine (CIM) is present ...