Objectives: To describe the characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of active infective endocarditis (IE) in Europe. Design: Prospective survey of medical practices in Europe. Setting: 92 centres from 25 countries. Patients: The EHS (Euro heart survey) on valvar heart disease (VHD) enrolled 5001 adult patients between April and July 2001. Of those, 159 had active IE. Results: 118 patients (74%...

1.2 Machine failure A system is composed of 5 components, each of which is either working or broken. Consider an experiment that consists of observing the status of each component, and let the outcome of the experiment be given by the vector (x1, x2, x3, x4, x5), where xi = 1 if component i works and 0 if component i is broken. 1. How many outcomes are in the sample space of this experiment? 2....

Neoplastic transformation is a complex process that results from multiple changes in gene activities. Probably most of these are mutational, i.e. alterations in the genomic structure of DNA, but others may be due to adaptive changes wherein genes are expressed that are inappropriate to a stage of development or differentiation. In this commentary neoplastic development is discussed in the conte...

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a condition that could possibly be induced by poor oral hygiene. Peptidoglycan (PGN) and lipoteichoic acid (LTA) promote cytokine expression and nitric oxide (NO) production by binding toll-like receptor (TLR)-2, considered the innate immune response initiator. Some studies have indicated that flavonoids possess antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. The ai...

During COVID-19, various public institutions tried to shape citizens’ behaviour slow the spread of pandemic. How did their authority affect support measures taken combat COVID-19? The article makes two contributions. First, it presents a novel conceptualisation as source heuristic. Second, analyses four types (health ministries, universities, health agencies, WHO) in countries (Germany and UK),...

OBJECTIVES To describe the characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of active infective endocarditis (IE) in Europe. DESIGN Prospective survey of medical practices in Europe. SETTING 92 centres from 25 countries. PATIENTS The EHS (Euro heart survey) on valvar heart disease (VHD) enrolled 5001 adult patients between April and July 2001. Of those, 159 had active IE. RESULTS 118 patients (...

Abstract Celiac Disease (CeD) is an autoimmune-like inflammatory disorder triggered by exposure to dietary gluten in genetically predisposed individuals. Tissue destruction CeD driven tissue-resident, cytotoxic CD8+ intraepithelial lymphocytes (IE-CTLs). Upregulation of tissue alarmins and cytokines – including IL-15, IL-21, type I interferon evident biopsies from patients. It thought that thes...

Pattern-based approaches for Information Extraction (IE) typically apply a pattern learner to a set of domain-specific training documents to generate extraction patterns for the IE system. This restricts the coverage of the system primarily to the expressions and language constructs that appear within the limited training data. Our research looks to the vast quantities of readily available text...

le mouvement transversal de la locomotive ou des wagons , appele ie lacet, provient de deux causes principales: -la conicite des bandages -les irregularites de la voie dans ie plan horizontal. on se propose ici d'etudier la premiere cause , ce qui nous conduit a une equation differentielle non lineaire du deuxieme ordre. • l'equation en question est etudiee dans plusieurs cas difftten...

We design and release BONIE, the first open numerical relation extractor, for extracting Open IE tuples where one of the arguments is a number or a quantity-unit phrase. BONIE uses bootstrapping to learn the specific dependency patterns that express numerical relations in a sentence. BONIE’s novelty lies in task-specific customizations, such as inferring implicit relations, which are clear due ...