Background: Double layer stents (DLS) were designed to overcome the limitations of plastic stents (PS) and self-expandable metal stents (SEMS) in palliating inoperable malignant biliary obstructions (MBO). Aims: Primary outcomes are stent patency period, occlusion rates and adverse events. Methods: Study Selection Criteria: Studies using DLS, SEMS and PS for palliation of patients with inoperab...

This paper presents the preliminary results of a study of the Knowledge Organisation System (KOS) deployed in major Digital Libraries (DLs) of the world. While traditional libraries (physical libraries) had evolved certain norms and systems, the kinds of KOS being deployed in DLs vary. Hence there is need to study in depth the Knowledge Organization (KO) tools, such as library classifications, ...

To represent and reason about contextualized knowledge often two-dimensional Description Logics (DLs) are employed, where one DL is used to describe contexts (or possible worlds) and the other DL is used to describe the objects, i.e. the relational structure of the specific contexts. Previous approaches for DLs of context that combined pairs of DLs resulted in undecidability in those cases wher...

In the past two decades, the use of digital libraries (DLs) has grown significantly. Accordingly, questions about the utility, usability and cost of DLs have started to arise, and greater attention is being paid to the quality evaluation of this type of information system. Since DLs are destined to serve user communities, one of the main aspects to be considered in DL evaluation is the user’s o...

PURPOSE To evaluate the relationship between electrophysiological, psychophysical, and structural measurements in normal and glaucomatous eyes and to test the hypothesis that there is a continuous structure-function relationship between ganglion cell numbers and visual field sensitivity. METHODS Thirty-four normal subjects and 40 patients with glaucoma were examined with the pattern electrore...

Recent years have seen a boom in the creation and development of ontologies. Unfortunately, the maintenance of such ontologies is an error-prone process. On one side, it is in general unrealistic to expect a developer to be simultaneously a domainand an ontology-expert. This leads to problems when a part of the domain is not correctly understood, or when, although correctly understood, is trans...