T HE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WHO UNdergo coronary artery stent implantation and subsequently require noncardiac surgery is a real and challenging clinical problem. In 2008, more than 800 000 percutaneous coronary procedures were performed in the United States, with coronary stents implanted in over 96% of cases. Approximately 5% of patients undergo noncardiac surgery in the 12 months following c...

Unilateral deafness has a high incidence in children. In addition to children who are born without hearing in one ear, children with bilateral deafness are frequently equipped only with one cochlear implant, leaving the other ear deaf. The present study investigates the effects of such single-sided deafness during development in the congenitally deaf cat. The investigated animals were either bo...

Employing IT as the key enable technology, virtual organization (VO) is primarily characterized as being a network of independent, geographically dispersed organizations (member organization) providing electronic services via Internet. To align these services effectively, one of the main challenges is to model cooperation in VO and provide correspondent management tools. Here we present a VOC (...