BACKGROUND/AIM Peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients have an increased risk for cardiovascular diseases. The aim of the study was to evaluate the cardiovascular changes in patients undergoing chronic PD and the eventual existing differences depending on biocompatibility of dialysis solutions. METHODS After 3 +/- 2 years of starting PD, 21 PD patients on the treatment with bioincompatible dialysis...

The integrated optimization of product development process (PDP) is a critical strategy to improve the product development capability. It should be targeted for time, quality, cost, service and environment. Based on review of existing optimizing methods and tools applied in PDP, which are sorted in their optimizing goals, the problems and difficulties of PDP integrated optimization are put forw...

Storage-as-a-Service (SaaS) offered by cloud service providers is a paid facility that enables organizations to outsource their data to be stored on remote servers. Thus, SaaS reduces the maintenance cost and mitigates the burden of large local data storage at the organization’s end. However, the fact that data owners no longer physically possess their sensitive data raises new challenges to th...

In this position paper we discuss the application of personalization in persuasive technology design in light of the Personalized Design Process model (PDP-model). The PDP-model defines personalization as aligning a persuasive product to the end-user by stakeholder involvement (i.e. designers, endusers, domain experts and family/relatives) across the Problem Definition-, the Product Designand/o...

RATIONALE Pachydermoperiostosis (PDP) is a rare hereditary disorder that affects the skin and bones. PDP is characterized by periostosis, digital clubbing, and pachydermia. Previous studies demonstrated that increased prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) levels resulting from defective protein degradation pathways play a crucial role in PDP pathogenesis, and males were more commonly and severely affected th...

OBJECTIVE As the literature for the treatment of functional (psychogenic) movement disorders (FMD) is sparse, we assessed clinical outcomes in patients with FMD who underwent treatment with psychodynamic psychotherapy (PDP). METHODS A retrospective analysis of the data of patients with FMD who were referred for PDP from 2008-2014 at Emory University Medical Center was performed. RESULTS Thi...

Plagiarism is described as the reuse of someone else’s previous ideas, work or even words without sufficient attribution to the source. This paper presents a method to detect external plagiarism using the integration of semantic relations between words and their syntactic composition. The problem with the available methods is that they fail to capture the meaning in comparison between a source ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence, incidence, risk factors, and concomitants of Parkinson disease (PD)-associated psychosis (PDP) in a population-based prevalent cohort. DESIGN Prospective longitudinal cohort study. SETTING Community-based study in southwestern Norway. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred thirty community-based PD patients were followed up prospectively for 12 years. Reassessme...