In this paper, we present a new software package, TAT, that allows the statistical study of the IP traffic transmitted trough an Internet node. This tool has been successfully tested under a work carried out in a subnet of the regional network of Murcia (Spain) called Ciez@net. Cieza is a village of 30,000 people where the pilot network Ciez@net intends to bring these people the opportunity to ...

Surgery induces immediate hypercoagulability by direct alteration of the vascular bed, release of procoagulant substances from the extravascular spaces and blood flow decrease, and delayed hypercoagulation in response to tissue damage which triggers inflammatory responses. Thus, the postoperative period represents a high-risk time for thrombosis. Recognition of high-risk individuals would make ...

published their groundbreaking monograph " The achievement motive " in 1953, scientific research on human motives such as the needs for achievement, affiliation, or power was off to a great start as a respectable, promising and flourishing branch of psychology. It generated thousands of published research reports over the next three decades and spilled over into other disciplines such as politi...

Let (N) denote a mean-eld measure with potential F. Asymptotic independence properties of the measure (N) are investigated. In particular, with H(j) denoting relative entropy, if there exists a unique non{degenerate minimum of H(j) ? F(), then propagation of chaos holds for blocks of size o(N). Certain degenerate situations are also studied. The results are applied for the Langevin dynamics of ...

OBJECTIVES The coagulation and fibrinolytic system appears to be activated by the septic process independently, leading to the syndrome of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). In this study, we investigated the changes within the hemostatic system related to the severity of the illness and the prognosis in patients with sepsis. METHODS Plasma thrombin-antithrombin III (TAT) and plasm...

an HIV regulatory protein called Tat, to three other products. IAVI President Seth Berkley agreed to work with AVIP to " strengthen the European effort, " with no special emphasis on Italian research, he says. " We won't do it otherwise, " says Berkley, adding that " anything we do would be subject to our scientific review methods. " Although Ensoli's Tat vaccine is but one part of AVIP, some r...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES It has been reported that the influence of plasma fibrinogen on the incidence of myocardial infarction is related to inflammatory processes. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between inflammatory activity, fibrinogen and thrombin generation in patients 5 years after the acute phase of myocardial infarction. DESIGN AND METHODS Sixty-seven patie...

BACKGROUND Speeding up identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) is of foremost importance in the management of blood cultures. Here, we describe a simple, rapid, and standardized approach based on a very short-term incubation on solid medium from positive blood cultures followed by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry identification and automated AST. The aim of the study was to eva...

AIMS Thromboembolic complications have been reported after radiofrequency ablation but the low incidence of overt clinical events has been a limitation to the study of factors affecting thrombogenic risk. The aim of this study was to determine whether radiofrequency ablation has a procoagulant effect and to examine variables that affect thrombio generation. METHODS AND RESULTS Thirty-seven co...

There are three prominent solutions to the Darwinian problem of altruism, kin selection, reciprocal altruism, and trait group selection. Only one, reciprocal altruism, most commonly implemented in game theory as a TIT FOR TAT strategy, is not based on the principle of conditional association. On the contrary, TIT FOR TAT implements conditional altruism in the context of unconditionally determin...