abstract:introduction: racial and environmental differences in communities leading cause of differences in serum lipids. it can be said this study aimed in assessing percentile curves of serum lipid profile about 6-18 years old students of birjand.method: the present cross-sectional study was done on 4168 students of birjand aged 6-18 years. they were classified into three age groups 6-10 and 1...

background: ovarian cysts are among the diseases which cause reproductive failure and economic losses in dairy herds. high yelding dairy cattles are suseptable to reproductive failure caused by ovarian cysts, as a result of their exposure to stressful coditions during lactation. objectives: this study aimed to monitor metabolic profile tests in dairy cows with ovarian cysts in comparison with c...

BACKGROUND Although health-related quality of life (HRQOL) instruments may offer satisfactory results, their length often limits the extent to which they are actually applied in clinical practice. Efforts to develop short questionnaires have largely focused on reducing existing instruments. The approaches most frequently employed for this purpose rely on statistical procedures that are consider...

In our first-ever appearance at TREC, we explore initial ideas on building an effective search tool over tweet stream as a participation in this year’s microblog track. Among those ideas are tweet expansion with short representation of terms that frequently co-occur with hashtags and URLs, and re-ranking based on statistics that estimate user popularity (using replies and mentions), tweet popul...

Unequal error protection is an important feature regarding transport of multimedia data. The paper presents a novel approach for realising unequal error protection properties with multilevel codes, following the capacity design rule but adjusting the scheme to provide more unequal error protection than a multilevel coding scheme inherently provides. The flexibility of this approach is investiga...

Forthcoming wireless networks will combine high capacity heterogeneous networks, with almost universal availability, with the property of roaming and interaction aimed to mobile users. In this context of ubiquitous networking, applied research will undoubtedly bring the attention to the enduser, who will become the center of services and applications. People-aware scenarios will offer services ...

Recommender systems support users in selecting items and services in an information-rich environment. Although recommender systems have been improved in terms of accuracy, such systems are still insufficient in terms of novelty and serendipity, giving unsatisfactory results to users. Two methods of “serendipitous recommendation” are therefore proposed. However, a method for recommending serendi...

Early use of applying the Common Criteria for specifying and acquiring large-scale telecommunications services is described. Lessons learned and examples are described.

We report on the University of Lugano’s participation in the Contextual Suggestion track of TREC 2013 for which we submitted two runs. In particular we present our approach for contextual suggestion which very carefully constructs user profiles in order to provide more accurate and relevant recommendations. The evaluations of our two runs are reported and compared to each other. Based on the tr...

Arguably one of the most important features of Twitter is the support for “retweets” or messages re-posted verbatim by a user that were originated by someone else. Despite the fact that retweets are routinely studied and reported, many important questions remain about user motivation for their use and their significance. In this paper we answer the question of what users indicate when they retw...