Contrast-induced nephropathy is defined as a serum creatinine level that increases by at least 25% or is 44.2 μmol/L greater than baseline within three days of receiving contrast medium intravascularly in the ab sence of another cause. Contrastinduced nephropathy is usually selflimiting; at worst, it can make the patient permanently dependent on hemodialysis or can result in death. Main risk fa...

Well-founded orders are the opposite of noetherian orders: every nonempty subset contains at least one minimal element. And a set is well-ordered when it is totally ordered by a wellfounded order: every nonempty set contains exactly one minimal element. Sofar, noetherian induction has been the most powerful way of proving properties inductively; it is indeed the most general one in the precise ...

In this paper we present a new approach for automatic topology optimization of backpropagation networks. It is based on a genetic algorithm. In contrast to other approaches it allows that two networks with diierent number of units can be crossed to a new valid "child" network. We applied this algorithm to a medical classiication task, which is extremely dii-cult to solve. The results connrm, th...

The proposed system enables the control of sound sources in a large auditorium both in direction and distance. Reproduction of 3D sound fields over loudspeakers whereas distance coding is taken into account is a rather difficult goal. Because different simple and complex properties of a sound event contribute to the perception of distance. Similar to the perception of pitch, the perception of d...

objective: this study focused on the factors affecting the institutional delivery and delivery assisted by health professionals in urban slums. materials and methods: a semi-structured questionnaire was developed to collect information from women aged 15-49 who had at least one birth. totally 540 eligible women were interviewed. results: the results showed that around 20% of women delivered at ...

La santé mobile et la robotique sociale d’assistance sont deux marchés en pleine expansion. Le secteur de du soin s’intéresse particulièrement à ces nouvelles technologies, notamment pour leur potentiel matière prévention (pour mobile) d’accompagnement au handicap perte d’autonomie robotique). Chaque jour, nouveaux produits dévelop...

this study aimed to investigate the spatial perception and evaluation of the place-based affordance of mosques in tehran. reviewing the literature and applying gibson`s affordance and canter`s place theory, the new model called place-based affordance is proposed. in this model, each location contains two potential types of symbolic and behavioural affordance. accordingly, throughout history, be...

The sense of the place is a collection of anecdotes and individual or collective narratives that take place in association with the place, they play a role in developing social attachments to the place. This sense leads to a link between the individual to the place in which human being considers himself or herself as a part of the place and considers a role for himself or herself a role in that...