Assessing the influence of a scholar’s work is an important task for funding organizations, academic departments, and researchers. Common methods, such as measures of citation counts, can ignore much of the nuance and multidimensionality of scholarly influence. We present an approach for generating dynamic visualizations of scholars’ careers. This approach uses an animated node-link diagram sho...

Abstracts of the 5 Cachexia Conference, Barcelona, Spain, December 5–8, 2009s of the 5 Cachexia Conference, Barcelona, Spain, December 5–8, 2009 # The Author(s) 2010. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com 001 How does the new diagnostic criteria for protein-energy wasting in chronic kidney disease compare with the ICD-10 AM definitions? Sharyn Denmeade, Lynda Moynahan, ...

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Abstract Background and Aims Protein energy wasting (PEW) is a syndrome of adverse nutritional catabolic changes common among chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. Handgrip strength (HGS) was one the methods screening PEW mentioned in Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative guidelines. However, only few studies determined validity HGS detecting maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) The study aimed...

has been considered as one of important risk factors for cardiovascular (CV) disease and mortality in the general population. As its harmful aspect has been too much emphasized, many physicians ignore other facets of overweight/obesity nowadays. A number of epi-demiologic studies from large samples of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have reported that worse survi...

Today’s learners have sophisticated technological skills, and since technology offers learners a myriad of new and highly effective tools which they can use to learn autonomously, digital games could be a case for such an educational use (Oblinger & Oblinger, 2005; Reeves, 2008). According to PEW Reports (2008), computing Hyungsung Park Kyonggi University, South Korea Interaction to Facilitate ...