Erythropoietin is an essential growth and viability factor to erythroid progenitors of bone marrow, regulating erythrocyte production and adapting it to the physiological needs for oxygen. Human EPO obtained through recombinant DNA (EPO-hr) technology has enabled its wide therapeutic use. Clinical experience has shown that this molecule is capable of modifying anemia associated to chronic renal...

OBJECTIVE To examine the potential value of preinduction cervical length, cervical elastography and angle of progression (AOP) in prediction of successful vaginal delivery and induction-to-delivery interval. METHODS This was a prospective study in 99 women with singleton pregnancy undergoing preinduction ultrasound assessment at 35-42 weeks' gestation. Cervical length, elastographic score at ...

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) has been designed to provide a better separation of concerns at development level by modularizing concerns that would otherwise be tangled and scattered across other concerns. Current mainstream AOP techniques separate crosscutting concerns on a syntactic basis whereas a concern is more a semantic matter. Therefore, a different, more semanticoriented, approach ...

The separation of concerns at implementation level with AspectOriented Programming (AOP) tools raises the conflicts among aspects. The conflicts detection and resolution are critical operations. First the detection of conflicts is a manual task in most of the AOP tools, second the resolution of conflicts is enclosed to order-schemes. The AOP tools structures and mechanisms do not always support...

AOP is widely accepted as a language concept to improve separation of concerns, but it has often been pointed out that an encompassing theory of aspect composition is as yet missing. We define an abstract metamodel in which we capture the elements that we believe are the typical aspect oriented programming concepts. Also, these elements are crucial to the understanding of the semantics of AOP l...

While Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) [Kic+97] enables modularization of crosscutting concerns, Reflection [Smi82] is commonly recognized as a valuable instrument for separation of concerns [Coi99]. In this short paper, we explore the relationships between reflection and AOP. This study is carried out in the context of a project about dynamic adaptability of distributed systems [RNTL00]. We p...

Several authors have debated the modularity and obliviousness of aspects in AOP and the links between these two notions, noting that obliviousness is not always desirable or achievable. Many proposals have appeared, mainly in the context of AspectJ, to mitigate these issues by restricting upfront, or "inferring" and documenting, where aspects can apply. As pointed out, sacrificing certain facet...

BACKGROUND Although transfusion is a common procedure for treating anemia of prematurity, there is no specific protocol for blood transfusion in premature newborns. So in this study we investigate whether application of a strict protocol has any statistically significant effect on reduction of blood transfusion. METHODS In this study, first group admitted in NICU during 2005 - 2006 and the se...

Introduction: Anemia in pregnancy is an important public health problem associated with increased maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the prevalence, associated factors and outcomes of anemia among teenage pregnancy in health clinics in northwestern of Malaysia from 2010 to 2012. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using records o...