Lenalidomide is an effective therapy against malignant plasma cells and a potent agent against proinflammatory and proangiogenic cytokines. The use of lenalidomide in POEMS (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal protein with plasma cells, skin changes) has been reported, but its benefit in long-term use is not well established. A 55-year-old man with POEMS and debilitating po...

The present case showed M protein spike with varying type of plasma dyscarasias, ascites, gynaecomastia, impotence and mild acanthosis. POEMS syndrome is a rare multisystem disorder involving polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy and skin changes. It usually manifests in 5–6 decade of life with a mean survival period of 8 years. We report a case of a 56 years old m...

POEMS syndrome is an acronym for polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy and skin changes, which is a rare paraneoplastic disease of monoclonal plasma cells. A mandatory criterion to diagnose POEMS syndrome is the presence of a monoclonal plasma cell dyscrasia in which plasma cell leukemia is the most aggressive form. Early identification of the features of the POEMS...

Pemuisi is a poetry generation system that generates topical poems in Indonesian using a constraint satisfaction approach. It scans popular news websites for articles and extracts relevant keywords that are combined with various language resources such as templates and other slot fillers into lines of poetry. It then composes poems from these lines by satisfying a set of given constraints. A Tu...

A 58 year old man presented with a three year history of impotence, night sweats and ankle swelling. On examination, the patient fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for POEMS syndrome, but was unusual in that he also had underlying Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia with IgM kappa paraproteinaemia. The patient was treated with intermittent chlorambucil and made a good recovery. POEMS syndrome has b...

Dear Editor, POEMS syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome caused by a plasma cell disorder that is clinically characterized by polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal plasmaproliferative disorder, and skin changes.1 Ischemic diseases of the coronary and lower limb arteries have often been reported in patients with POEMS syndrome.2,3 However, acute ischemic stroke is uncommo...

Computer poetry generation is our first step towards computer writing. Writing must have a theme. The current approaches of using sequence-to-sequence models with attention often produce nonthematic poems. We present a conditional variational autoencoder with augmented word2vec architecture that explicitly represents the topic or theme information. This approach significantly improves the relev...

The class of pattern languages was introduced by Angluin (1980), and a lot of studies have been undertaken on it from the theoretical viewpoint of learnabilities. However, there have been few practical studies except for the one by Shinohara (1982), in which patterns are restricted so that every variable occurs at most once. In this paper, we distinguish repetitive variables from those occurrin...

In this paper a modification of He's variational iteration method (VIM) has been employed to solve Dung and Riccati equations. Sometimes, it is not easy or even impossible, to obtain the first few iterations of VIM, therefore, we suggest to approximate the integrand by using suitable expansions such as Taylor or Chebyshev expansions.