BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to develop and validate a reliable clinical prediction rule that could be employed to identify patients at higher likelihood of mortality among those with hematological malignancies (HMs) and bacterial bloodstream infections (BBSIs). METHODS AND FINDINGS We conducted a retrospective cohort study in nine Italian hematological units. The derivation cohort co...

in the past decades, much effort has been devoted to simulation of the rainfall-runoff process. hydrological models are simplified representations of the natural hydrologic system. in each case, the choice of the model to be applied depends mainly on the objective of the modeling but also on the available information. the relative performances of two lumped conceptual-based hydrology models (ta...

Hydatidiform moles (HMs) most often occur sporadically and are either diploid androgenetic or triploid. The very rare familial recurrent HMs (FRHMs) have been related to NLRP7 and C6orf221 mutations in the mother. FRHMs are most often diploid with both maternal and paternal origin of the molar genome. We have screened a cohort of 11 women with diploid HMs with biparental contributions to the mo...

The history of the heat kernel Gaussian estimates started with the works of Nash [25] and Aronson [2] where the double-sided Gaussian estimates were obtained for the heat kernel of a uniformly parabolic equation in IR in a divergence form (see also [15] for improvement of the original Nash’s argument and [26] for a consistent account of the Aronson’s results and related topics). In particular, ...

A 45-year-old male patient was evaluated because of involuntary spasms in his right masseter muscle. Five years before, following an acute respiratory insufficiency which required endotracheal intubation, he had presented with dysarthria, bilateral (predominantly right) supranuclear facial and hypoglossal palsy, and inability to achieve tongue protrusion, difficulty in chewing and bilateral dys...

The amount of rainfall can be used to estimate the runoff that enters a reservoir. Runoff is influenced by land use, and soil type greatly affects will occur. This study discusses development hydrological model with application Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC-HMS) in Karangmumus watershed using data has been verified field divided into zones based on permeability testing laboratory. With hel...

One of the key design issues of holonic manufacturing systems (HMS) is to effectively respond to resource failures based on the flexible holonic architecture. The objective of this paper is to propose a viable design methodology to implement reconfiguration mechanism in HMS. A reconfiguration mechanism is developed to accommodate changes based on collaboration of holons without leading to chaos...

Rainfall-runoff processes in a small oil palm catchment (8.2 ha) in Johor, Malaysia were examined. Storm hydrographs show rapid responses to rainfall with a short time to peak. The estimated initial hydrologic loss for the oil palm catchment is 5 mm. Despite the low initial loss, the catchment exhibits a high proportion of baseflow, approximately 54% of the total runoff. On an event basis, the ...

Although information about individuals' exposure to highly stressful events such as traumatic stressors is often very useful for clinicians and researchers, available measures are too long and complex for use in many settings. The Trauma History Screen (THS) was developed to provide a very brief and easy-to-complete self-report measure of exposure to high magnitude stressor (HMS) events and of ...