This article highlights preclinical and clinical studies in the field of wasting disorders that were presented at the 7th Cachexia Conference held in Kobe, Japan, in December 2013. This year, the main topics were the development of new methods and new biomarkers in the field of cachexia and wasting disorders with particular focus on inflammatory pathways, growth differentiation factor-15, myost...

This paper describes a project aimed at converting a legacy representation of English idioms into an XML-based format. The project is set in the context of a large electronic English-Polish dictionary which contains several hundred formalized idiom descriptions and which has been released under the terms of a free license. In short, the project consists of three phases: cleaning up the dictiona...

Recent proposals for creating digital scholarly editions (DSEs) through the crowdsourcing oftranscriptions and collaborative scholarship, for the establishment of national repositories ofdigital humanities data, and for the referencing, sharing, and storage of DSEs, have underlinedthe need for greater data interoperability. The TEI Guidelines have tried to establish standardsfor...

Yau Ma Tei Dermatology Clinic, 12/F, Yau Ma Tei Specialist Clinic, 143 Battery Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong A 57-year-old Chinese gentleman presented with pruritic skin eruptions located mainly over the shins since childhood. Scratching resulted in skin blister and finally scarring. He also had nail dystrophy over the fingers and toes since childhood. Incisional skin biopsy for histology and elec...

The paper introduces three patterns for use by university managers and lecturers for creating of Master of Science (MSc) program in engineering and science faculties, developing entrepreneurial skills: TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION (TEI) CURRICULA – provide a valuable and computational set of courses to guarantee the competence of graduate students in the turbulent environment; TEI...

The Text Encoding Initiative is using literate schema design, as instantiated in the completely redesigned ODD system, for production of the next edition of the TEI Guidelines. Key new aspects of the system include support of multiple schema languages; facilities for interoperability with other ontologies and vocabularies; and facilities for user customization and modularization (including a ne...

This paper describes the rationale and design of an XML-TEI encoded corpora compatible analysis platform for text mining called TXM. The design of this platform is based on a synthesis of the best available algorithms in existing textometry software. It also relies on identifying the most relevant open-source technologies for processing textual resources encoded in XML and Unicode, for efficien...

The use of information structure and metadata for the National Curriculum becomes more and more crucial as the demands for advanced eLearning services increases. In a Swedish pilot project a simple information model was developed and tested on the National Curriculum. An implementation of a common XML based Mark-up Language called TEI was used for the first approach. An alternative model where ...

Összefoglaló. Bevezetés: Az európai országok közül Magyarország a colorectalis daganatos incidencia és mortalitás szempontjából az élen szerepel. Ennek hátterében beteghez vagy egészségügyi rendszerhez köthető tényezők is állhatnak. Célkitűzés: Kutatásunk célja, hogy pilotvizsgálat keretében feltárjuk betegek kezeléshez jutásának körülményeit azáltal, első tünetei, kivizsgálásuk jellemzői, bete...