The media plays a powerful role in shaping health-related attitudes and behaviours. We investigated reports about children's independent mobility (CIM) associations with parental towards CIM. CIM-related (newspaper, online, television) during 3-month period were extracted from two databases. Concurrent collected via telephone interview 1779 parents of children aged 9–15 years. Media overwhelmin...

Introduction: Cancer is a global health problem. Taste change is one of the most common symptoms in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Cancer patients often use Complementary and Integrative Medicine (CIM) to manage chemotherapy complications. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate CIM used by cancer patients to cope with chemotherapy-related taste alterations. Materials and Methods: T...

This paper describes IEC CIM architecture and demonstrates how this architecture fits into Smart Grid architectural principles: loose coupling, shallow integration and layered approach. The CIM architecture is traced back to UN/CEFACT modeling methodology, Zachman formal architectural framework and Open-EDI model to ensure reusability and repeatability of its design solutions. It maps the CIM a...

In this paper, borrowing the intuition in Rao et al. (2004), we introduce a cumulative version of the inaccuracy measure (CIM). Also we obtain interesting and applicable properties of CIM for different cases based on the residual, past and interval lifetime random variables. Relying on various applications of stochastic classes in reliability and information theory fields, we stu...

Managing an IT environment requires the exchange of structured data between different agents. The Common Information Model (CIM) is a comprehensive open standard that specifies how managed elements in an IT environment are modelled as a set of common objects and relationships between them. It has however limited support for knowledge interoperability and aggregation, as well as reasoning. By co...

The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach introduces a clear separation of the business logic from the implementation logic that's less stable. It uses the models that are more perennial than codes. It puts the models at the centre of the development of software and of the information systems. The MDA approach consists at, firstly, developing the CIM Model, secondly, obtaining the PIM model ...

Background This study compares selected hospital outcomes between patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using either a customized individually made (CIM) implant or a standard off-the-shelf (OTS) implant. Methods A retrospective review was conducted on 248 consecutive TKA patients treated in a single institution, by the same surgeon. Patients received either CIM (126) or OTS (122)...

MDA is a software development framework where the core is a set of automatic transformation of models. One of these models, the CIM, is used to define the business process model. Though a complete automatic construction of the CIM is not possible, we think we could use some requirements models and strategies adapting them to be used in the MDA framework. We present an OCL based transformation t...

INTRODUCTION C-X-C motif chemokine 10 (CXCL10) is a chemokine that plays a critical role in the infiltration of T cells in autoimmune diseases and is reported to be expressed in muscle tissue of polymyositis. To determine the therapeutic efficacy of CXCL10 blockade, we investigated the role of CXCL10 and the effect of anti-CXCL10 antibody treatment in C protein-induced myositis (CIM), an animal...