The Data Category Registry is one of the ISO initiatives towards the establishment of standards for Language Resource management, creation and coding. Successful application of the DCR depends on the availability of tools that can interact with it. This paper describes the first steps that have been taken to provide users of the multimedia annotation tool ELAN, with the means to create referenc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Brain metastasis was frequent in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with poor prognosis. Gefitinib was an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor which has been used in the treatment of NSCLC. Our study was to evaluate the efficacy and toxicities of gefitinib in lung adenocarcinoma patients with brain metastases. METHODS We retrospec...

It is well-known that severe deformation to metals causes a direct grain refinement of the matrix without special heat-treatments due to the mechanism of dynamic continuous recrystallization (DCR). However, the microstructural revolution during severe deformation is seemed to be different depending on the deformation mode, namely the direction of deformation. In general, multi-directional defor...

INTRODUCTION Obesity-related disturbances are considered to be risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Chromium is shown to improve carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. Conflicting data on effects of chromium supplementation in humans are published. The aim of the study was to assess the concentrations of serum chromium during the 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in obese persons. ...

AIMS To evaluate the long term results of intraoperative mitomycin C application in dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) surgery compared with results of the conventional procedure. METHODS In this prospective randomised controlled study, a total of 88 eyes diagnosed with acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction were randomly divided into a conventional DCR group and a mitomycin C group in which mitomyc...

Background and Objectives External dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) is the method of choice to treat nasolacrimal duct (NLD) obstruction and the other approaches are compared with it, with a failure rate of 4% to 13%. The current study aimed to assess the causes of failure in external DCR by postoperative endoscopic and pathological evaluation. Methods The current retrospective cross sectional stu...

The proliferation of mobile computers—such as laptops, personal digital assistants, and smart phones—has propelled distributed computing into mainstream society. Over the past decade these technologies have spurred interest in both decentralized multiagent systems and wireless mobile ad-hoc networks. Such networks, however, present many challenges to information sharing and coordination. Interf...

Background: External Dacryocystorhinostomy was surgical procedure for the treatment of complete nasolacrimal duct obstruction in adults before the endoscopic dacryocystorhinosotomy. This study was done evaluate the rate of success of Endo DCR procedure in patients with chronic Dacryocystitis. Methods: The study was carried out in MGM Hospital Warangal and 60 pa ents were selected for the proced...