Plasma amino acids were measured in 35 preterm infants, of whom 11 weighed less than 1000 g and 24 weighed between 1000 g and 1500 g at the time of sampling. Repeat samples were obtained in 18 at least seven days later. Seventeen infants were fed with preterm formula milk and 18 with expressed maternal breast milk at one to two hourly intervals during the study period. Formula fed infants gaine...

This paper presents an approach to introduce performance awareness in integrated development environments (IDE) for Java Enterprise Edition (EE) applications. The approach predicts the response time of EE component operations during implementation time and presents these predictions within an IDE. Source code is parsed and represented as an abstract syntax tree (AST). This structure is converte...

Network analysis uses centralities as a method to order the actors and the links between them according to their importance based on the structural properties of the given network. In mathematical terms a network can be modelled as an instance of the abstract object graph, where the actors of the network are vertices and the links are represented by edges. An intuitive form of visualization of ...

Animal models suggest that reduced nitric oxide (NO) synthase activity results in lower values of exhaled NO (eNO) present at birth in those individuals who are going to develop chronic lung disease of infancy (CLDI). Online tidal eNO was measured in 39 unsedated pre-term infants with CLDI (mean gestational age (GA) 27.3 weeks) in comparison with 23 healthy pre-term (31.6 weeks) and 127 term in...

The FERMI@ELETTRA project is an initiative from ELETTRA, INFM and other Italian institutes, to construct a single-pass FEL user-facility for the wavelength range from 100 nm (12 eV) to 10 nm (124 eV), to be located next to the third-generation synchrotron radiation facility ELETTRA in Trieste, Italy. The project is concentrated around the existing 1.2-GeV S-band linac, i.e., the injector for th...

To examine the relative importance of some risk factors and neurological prognosis in the first year of life, 37 small-for-gestational age newborns were followed prospectively to 1 year of conceptional age. An abnormal neurological examination was found in 51.3% of the newborns and, at 12 months, 32.5% were still considered abnormal. Only 8.1% of the group had severe neurological sequelae at 1 ...

The aim of this research is to determine and evaluate teacher views of headmasters regarding to fulfilling management functions of human resources. A conceptional frame is provided regarding to importance of human resources at educational institutions and for the definition of human resources primarily. In the research, sufficiency of headmasters regarding teacher views on fulfilling functions ...

In this paper we present a strategy for handling of multimodal signals from pen-based mobile devices for Human to Computer Interaction (HCI), where our focus is on the modalities of spoken and handwritten inputs. Each modality for itself is quite well understood, as the exhaustive literature demonstrates, although still a number of challenges exist, like recognition result improvements. Among t...

Mass-wasting events are a key process in the evolution of volcanic ocean islands. They occur at various dimensional scales and present major source hazard. When collapsed material plunges into sea, destructive tsunamis can be generated. Yet, hazard potential collapse-induced is still poorly understood with different opinions on what consequences to expect from this type events, particularly tho...