OBJECTIVES On July 13, 2011, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a public health notification with concerns regarding vaginal mesh for the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse. Our study compares the frequency and type of mesh complications related to female pelvic floor disorders presenting to our center before and after this notification. METHODS We performed a retrospective co...

objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiological aspects of childhood tuberculosis in kermanshah, iran. results: 35% of cases were male and 65% were female. of total 150 tuberculosis cases, 56% were pulmonary and 44% were extra pulmonary. the most common symptoms were fever and cough. about 16% were asymptomatic. about 17% of patients had adult pulmonary tuberculosis in the...

INTRODUCTION Infectious disease notification practices in Victoria were reviewed to identify areas for potential improvement. METHODS Confirmed or probable cases of certain infectious diseases required to be notified to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Victoria in 2013, excluding elevated blood lead, foodborne or water-borne illness with 2 or more related cases and chlamydia...

This document describes an extension to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). The purpose of this extension is to provide an extensible framework by which SIP nodes can request notification from remote nodes indicating that certain events have occurred. Concrete uses of the mechanism described in this document may be standardized in the future. Note that the event notification mechanisms defin...

abstract since gasoil due to the aromatics of the most important environmental pollutants and is one of the oil with many applications. according to its damaging effects on living organisms and human beings, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of gasoil on the parameters of liver, white rat race was albino nmri. the 40 mice in 4 groups, adult male mice were divided into con...

Software engineering is an established discipline for the systematic creation of large and complex software systems. Relatively more recent are attempts to systematise the creation and management of large data sets, in data engineering. A key feature of these disciplines is managing engineering processes using several stages that form a development life cycle. This leads to a methodical process...

A step that many context-aware systems have in common is that of context reasoning. A major problem this research is currently facing, is the absence of reallife data, which would enable the verification of the usefulness of the reasoning mechanisms for specific datasets. In this paper we describe a server mechanism that enables the flexible collection and storage of context data from multiple ...

Many software applications require co-operative work support, including collaborative editing, group awareness, versioning, messaging and automated notification and coordination agents. Most approaches hard-code such facilities into applications, with fixed functionality and limited ability to reuse groupware implementations. We describe our recent work in seamlessly adding such capabilities to...

The Willow architecture is a comprehensive approach to survivability in critical distributed applications. Survivability is achieved in a deployed system using a unique combination of (a) fault avoidance by disabling vulnerable network elements intentionally when a threat is detected or predicted, (b) fault elimination by replacing system software elements when faults are discovered, and (c) fa...

Usability is considered as a very significant factor towards the wide acceptance of software applications. Although the usability evaluation can take place in different forms, the entire evaluation procedure usually follows predefined ways according to a classification of the common characteristics of software applications. However, contemporary Web 2.0 applications, which aim at both social ne...