Affi liations: From the Chest Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital. Financial/nonfi nancial disclosures: The authors have reported to CHEST that no potential confl icts of interest exist with any companies/organizations whose products or services may be discussed in this article. Correspondence to: Kun-Ta Chou, MD, Chest Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Section 2 S...

Given two large lists of records, the task in entity resolution (ER) is to find pairs from Cartesian product that correspond same real world entity. Typically, passive learning methods on such tasks require amounts labeled data yield useful models. Active Learning a promising approach for ER low resource settings. However, search space, informative samples user label, grows quadratically instan...

The aim of this study is to conduct a cross-sectional analysis of broadband’s impact on a consumers time use on daily life activities. Specifically, this paper aims to achieve the following two objectives: first, to examine and compare the online habits of both broadband and dial-up users; and second, to examine and compare the impacts of both broadband and dial-up on a consumer’s use of time u...

Self-care to help yourself get better more quickly When should you get help? Contact your GP practice or contact NHS 111 (England), NHS 24 (Scotland dial 111), or NHS direct (Wales dial 0845 4647) or GP practice (N.Ireland) Options to help prevent a UTI Antibiotic resistance Treating Your Infection – Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) For women outside care homes with suspected uncomplicated urinary...

Self-care to help yourself get better more quickly When should you get help? Contact your GP practice or contact NHS 111 (England), NHS 24 (Scotland dial 111), or NHS direct (Wales dial 0845 4647) or GP practice (N.Ireland) Options to help prevent a UTI Antibiotic resistance Treating Your Infection – Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) For women outside care homes with suspected uncomplicated urinary...

during CAPD measured with intraperitoneal dextran 70. ASAIO Trans 1991; 37: 662–667 34. Van Biesen W, Carlsson O, Bergia R et al. Personal dialysis capacity (PDC(TM)) test: a multicentre clinical study. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2003; 18: 788–796 35. Van Biesen W, Van der Tol A, Veys N et al. The personal dialysis capacity test is superior to the peritoneal equilibration test to discriminate infl...

In an online dial-a-ride problem, a crew of servers has to process transportation requests as they arrive in real time. Possible objective functions include minimizing the makespan and minimizing the sum of completion times. We give competitive algorithms and negative results for several online dial-a-ride problems with multiple servers. Surprisingly, in some cases the competitive ratio is dram...

1. Kim S, Oh J, Chung W et al. Benefits of biocompatible PD fluid for preservation of residual renal function in incident CAPD patients: a 1-year study. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2009; 24: 2899–2908 2. Hoff CM. In vitro biocompatibility performance of physioneal. Kidney Int Suppl 2003; S57–S74 3. Pajek J, Kveder R, Bren A et al. Short-term effects of bicarbonate/ lactate-buffered and conventional...

UNLABELLED This investigation examined the accuracy of dose calibrator activity measurement of the beta-emitting radiopharmaceutical (90)Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan. METHODS Five different facilities independently measured (90)Y in a 10-mL syringe geometry with 30 dose calibrator models from 3 different manufacturers. The activities ranged from 81.4 MBq (2.2 mCi) to 1,406 MBq (38 mCi) over the vol...

1. Breen CP, Macdougall IC. Improvement of erythropoietin-resistant anaemia after renal transplantation in patients with homozygous sickle-cell disease. Nephrol Dial Transplant 1998; 13: 2949–2952 2. Tomson CRV, Edmunds ME, Chambers K et al. Effect of recombinant human erythropoietin on erythropoiesis in homozygous sickle-cell anaemia and renal failure. Nephrol Dial Transplant 1992; 7: 817–821 ...