Where local or international guidelines are available they should be used to guide therapy. Peritoneal dialysate effluent should be collected and processed in an appropriate manner to ensure culture-negative episodes account for < 20% of all PD-associated peritonitis. While there is no good evidence to support specific antibiotic choice, empiric intraperitoneal therapy should consider local mic...

Query auto-completion (QAC) is one of the most recognizable and widely used services of modern search engines. Its goal is to assist a user in the process of query formulation. Current QAC systems are mainly reactive. They respond to the present request using past knowledge. Specifically, they mostly rely on query logs analysis [11, 10, 12] or corpus terms co-occurrences [8] and rank suggestion...

With OWL 2 about to be completed, it is the right time to start discussions on possible future modifications of OWL. We present here a number of suggestions in order to discuss them with the OWL user community. They encompass expressive extensions on polynomial OWL 2 profiles, a suggestion for an OWL Rules language, and expressive extensions for OWL DL.

There are a number of variations on the standard singleor double-cuff Tenckhoff catheter that are now available which have been developed in an attempt to improve both the infectious complications, such as peritonitis and ESIs, and mechanical complications, such as flow problems and tip malposition. These variants include a coiled-tip Tenckhoff, Toronto Western Hospital catheter with silicone d...

Whenever possible it is suggested that a native arteriovenous fistula is created and used for haemodialysis, as it is superior to an arteriovenous graft and to a central venous catheter. (Level III evidence) When a native arteriovenous fistula is not possible, an artificial arteriovenous graft should be used in preference to a central venous catheter. Arteriovenous grafts have similar patency t...

1. The abstract should not exceed 150 words. Shorter is better. 2. Avoid statistical details; words suffice to carry your message. 3. Avoid sentences such as, “The implications are described.” The Abstract should be meaningful by itself; it should not be a teaser. 4. In general, do not use abbreviations.

Introductions to Philosophy There are many good introductions to philosophy: [21], [51] and [1] have the advantage of being short and cheap. There are a few books [42, 10, 33] that introduce philosophical ideas by analysing films which raise philosophical issues. One of the advantages of these books is that they allow you to say that you are doing valuable research for this module while watchin...

Rather than providing a big picture about monetary policy, I appoint myself as a discussant of the two papers presented in this session, one on inflationary expectations by Galati, Poelhekke, and Zhou, and the other on the recent commodity boom by Erceg, Guerrieri, and Kamin. For each of the two papers, which I take to be the best industry practice, I will suggest an alternative methodology. My...