As if hospitals didn’t already have enough concerns about the FDA’s changes to its existing bar-code rules for drugs, health systems also have to worry about a first-time FDA regulation mandating a unique device identifier (UDI) system for medical devices. Hospitals that want to take advantage of devices that are likely to be marked with GS1-compatible bar codes will have to upgrade their softw...

This paper presents a study that investigates lighting qualities within three computer labs from long-term perspective. Subjective assessments 173 participants were collected. Accurately calibrated simulation models of generated to simulate annual quantities based on horizontal illuminance (Eh), vertical (Ev) and monitor (Em). Gender, eyewear access exterior views have impacts subjective assess...

Social networks are very popular these days, and it facilitates search and retrieval of information through internet. Hence, our understanding and usage of the WWW significantly differs from early days. The Internet, particularly the WWW is not only being used and approached for gathering information anymore. It is used routinely to reach other people through various applications ranging from e...

PURPOSE To evaluate the impact of preoperative patient characteristics and flow rate on failure, early postoperative complications, and voiding in patients who underwent transvaginal tension-free vaginal tape-obturator (TVT-O) treatment for uncomplicated stress urinary incontinence (SUI). METHODS We retrospectively reviewed patients who underwent TVT-O for SUI at 3 Italian centres. The exclus...

In this study, the spatial patterns of relative air humidity and its relation to urban, geographical and meteorological factors in the city of Zaragoza (Spain) is discussed. We created a relative humidity database by means of 32 urban transects. Data were taken on different days and with different weather types. This data set was used to map the mean spatial distribution of urban dry island (UD...

OBJECTIVES We sought to assess validity of the Incontinence Impact Questionnaire (IIQ) and the Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI) (long and short forms) in incontinent women previously urodynamically undiagnosed. STUDY DESIGN Post hoc analysis of responses to the IIQ and UDI questionnaires were obtained from a trial on a urethral device in community-dwelling incontinent women. Internal consi...

The widespread availability of large data-sets poses both an opportunity and a challenge to logic programming. A first approach is to couple a relational database with logic programming, say, a Prolog system with MySQL. While this approach does pay off in cases where the data cannot reside in main memory, it is known to introduce substantial overheads. Ideally, we would like the Prolog system t...

Objective The objective of this study was to assess long-term postoperative urinary incontinence (UI) symptoms and quality of life (QOL) in patients after robotic-assisted sacrocolpopexy (RASC) with or without concomitant midurethral sling (MUS). Materials and Methods This is a cross-sectional survey of patients comparing long-term postoperative urinary symptoms and QOL measurements in women ...