background and purpose: occular toxicity is one of the most important complications of hydroxychloroquine. not any type of treatment has so far been found and recommended for this disorder. the purpose of this study was to report some characteristics of patients with hydroxychloroquine induced retinopathy.    materials and methods: from 107 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (ra) and/or systemi...

purpose: to determine the nature and types of household eye injuries. methods: we prospectively analyzed data from 100 consecutive patients with household eye injuries (104 eyes) referred to emergency room of farabi eye hospital during october 2003. standardized international classification of ocular trauma (birmingham eye trauma terminology) was used for classification. results: household ocul...

IONS CONFIGURATION STEFANIA MONTANI,1 ALESSIO BOTTRIGHI,1 GIORGIO LEONARDI,2 AND LUIGI PORTINALE1 1Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy 2Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy In the hemodialysis domain, we are implementing a case-based, closed-loop architecture aimed at configuring temporal abstractions (TA), which will be applied to time series data. The advantage of a case-based ...

Asian countries strongly depend on rice production for food security. The major rice-growing season (June to October) is highly exposed to the risk of tropical storm related damage. Unbiased and transparent approaches to assess the risk of rice crop damage are essential to support mitigation and disaster response strategies in the region. This study describes and demonstrates a method for rapid...

Time series are ubiquitous, and a measure to assess their similarity is a core part of many systems, including case-based reasoning systems. Although several proposals have been made, still the more robust and reliable time series similarity measures are the classical ones, introduced long time ago. In this paper we propose a new approach to time series similarity based on the costs of iterativ...

â  â  background eosinophilic gastroenteritis (eg) is a rare inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal (gi) tract. there have been several case series of patients with eg from the western world and east asia. however, there has not been a report of patients with eg from the middle east region. the aim of this study is to describe clinical characteristics and treatment response in a series o...

The choice of geometrical shape of the blades has a considerable effect on aerodynamic performance and flow characteristics in axial compressors. In this paper, the effects of the blades shape on the aerodynamic design characteristics are investigated based on Streamline Curvature Method (SCM). Initially, the Streamline Curvature Method (SCM) is used for designing a two-stage axial compressor. ...

The elastic properties of homogeneous, linear-elastic materials can be identified using resonant vibration analysis. Several sources of uncertainty contribute to the combined uncertainty of the measured values. This paper presents a method to handle uncertainty budgets in vibration based mixed numerical-experimental identification techniques. The presented method is evaluated with two numerical...

Time series are ubiquitous, and a measure to assess their similarity is a core part of many systems, including case-based reasoning systems. Although several proposals have been made, still the more robust and reliable time series similarity measures are the classical ones, introduced long time ago. In this paper we propose a new approach to time series similarity based on the costs of iterativ...