we report the case of a 54-year-old iranian man who presented with melena from three months prior to admission. esophagogastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy were normal. double balloon enteroscopy showed a pedunculated tumor located in the jejunum. he underwent laparotomy and resection of a 9.5 cm tumor from the distal jejunum. histopathologic evaluation confirmed the diagnosis of an inflammatory...

Various methods to control the influence of a covariate on a response variable are compared. In particular, ANOVA with or without homogeneity of variances (HOV) of errors and Kruskal-Wallis (K-W) tests on covariate-adjusted residuals and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) are compared. Covariate-adjusted residuals are obtained from the overall regression line fit to the entire data set ignoring th...

Do scale economies contribute to our understanding of international trade? Do international trade flows encode information about the extent of scale economies? To answer these questions we examine the large class of general equilibrium theories that imply Helpman-Krugman variants of the Vanek factor content prediction. Using an ambitious database on output, trade flows, and factor endowments, w...

Team Leader: Ra ul Rojas ( ollege professor) Team Members: Sven Behnke (s ienti sta ): general design Lars Knipping (s ienti sta ): behavior ontrol Bernhard Frots hl (s ienti sta ): web site, me hani s A him Liers (s ienti sta , did not attend ompetition): ele troni s Wolf Lindstrot (student): behavior ontrol Mark Simon (student): omputer vision, user interfa e Kirill Koule hov (student): beha...

The California Freeway Performance Measurement System stores real-time data from 26,000 loop detectors. PeMS is accessed via an internet browser (http://pems.eecs.berkeley.edu/). It currently has 3 TB of data, growing at 2 GB/day. PeMS extracts useful information from these data and displays it in graphical or tabular form. These data provide an unparalled opportunity to assess freeway performa...