Material and Method : A prospective study of analysis of 100 cases (50 ascites and 50 pleural fluids) was carried out over a period of 6 months. In all these cases, clinical diagnosis was established after clinical examination and appropriate investigations. The fluid and serum levels of protein, albumin, LDH and cholesterol were determined and various ratios were obtained. The statistical anal...

Few suitable instruments exist for use with people, especially children, with both epilepsy and learning disabilities. One such measure is the Epilepsy and Learning Disabilities Quality of Life scale (ELDQOL), which has recently undergone revision following feedback from relevant users. This paper reports on the final psychometric testing phase of ELDQOL. ELDQOL consists of 70 items covering se...

In reality, the duration of all light sources (oscillators) is finite. So, effectively, light is always pulsed, whether it is of nano second or of giga second durations. This paper develops a conceptually congruent model of propagating the carrier frequency of a generic pulse directly in the time domain through traditional instruments and media. The modeling approach covers all spectrometers li...

Absolute Moment Block Truncation Coding (AMBTC) is one of the lossy image compression techniques. The computational complexity involved is less and the quality of the reconstructed images is appreciable. The normal AMBTC method requires 2 bits per pixel (bpp). In this paper, two novel ideas have been incorporated as part of AMBTC method to improve the coding efficiency. Generally, the quality d...

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a. Be able to facilitate operating room management including allocation of anesthesia and surgical resources. b. Demonstrate the ability for urgent/emergent pre-operative patient preparation, optimization and scheduling. c. Be able to evaluate and implement priorities in patient care. d. Demonstrate basic understanding of cost containment measures. II. MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE a. Be able to discuss "p...

Balkanet aims at combining effectively Balkan lexicography and modern computation. The most ambitious feature of Balkanet is its attempt to represent semantic relations and organize lexical information from Balkan languages in terms of word meanings. Its main objective is the development of six monolingual WordNets and their combination in a common infrastructure, namely the WordNet Management ...