Advances in Graph Drawing Special Issue on Selected Papers from the Sixth International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD98 Guest Editors Foreword

... evaluation of the Dirac energy position and the size of the band gap Concurrent with the band structure shift, the size of the band-gap increases The band fitting retrieves the energy of the bottom of ... diagrams of the optical conductivity within the charged phonon framework: the first one represents the electronic background coming from the current–current response functions, the second one resonant ... by the purchaser of the work Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and...

... communicate, leading either to in- or on- body communications between sensors, or to off -body communications with devices located in the close vicinity BAN’s potential applications include, among others, ... adopting an interdisciplinary approach, where the propagation phenomena, the coding or relaying strategies, the MAC protocols, and the network topology are strongly interrelated The coexistence issue ... Special issue on “Towards the connected body: advances in body communications” Philippe De Doncker*1, Jun-Ichi Takada2, Arie Reichman3 and Dries...

... communicate, leading either to in- or on- body communications between sensors, or to off -body communications with devices located in the close vicinity BAN’s potential applications include, among others, ... adopting an interdisciplinary approach, where the propagation phenomena, the coding or relaying strategies, the MAC protocols, and the network topology are strongly interrelated The coexistence issue ... Special issue on “Towards the connected body: advances in body communications” Philippe De Doncker*1, Jun-Ichi Takada2, Arie Reichman3 and Dries...

... Coherence Tomography in ocular toxoplasmosis • Usefulness of vitrectomy in the treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis • Update on the treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis We hope that this special issue ... American Journal of Ophthalmology: Delair E, Monnet D, Grabar S, Dupouy-Camet J, Yera H, Brézin AP Respective roles of acquired and congenital infections in presumed ocular toxoplasmosis Am J Ophthalmol ... will be interesting to readers and provides researchers with timely update on various topics in this important field Conflict of Interest The authors have declared that no conflict of interest...

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... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The guest editors hope you enjoy this special issue and would like to thank all the authors who have contributed to it In addition, special thanks go to all the reviewers who have donated their ... objective criteria The final five papers focus on specific aspects of the wireless physical layer, MAC, or network and how these impact video transmission The first contribution by Alfonso Fernandez ... addresses the assessment of video quality in the context of streaming DVBH services to mobile handhelds Their results demonstrate the shortcomings of existing approaches and help to lay the foundations...

... Citation The 2010 National Healthcare Quality Report and National Healthcare Disparities Report are available online at http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/qrdr10.htm Healthcare Quality and Disparities in Women: ... Healthcare Quality and Disparities in Women: Selected Findings From the 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD Pub No 11-0005-1-EF ... themes from the 2010 NHQR and 2010 NHDR emphasize the need to accelerate progress if the Nation is to achieve higher quality and more equitable health care in the near future Health Care Delivery and...

... by their friends and relatives The men’s social support increased over time for all types of support from all sources The women’s social support increased over time for all types of support from ... result in the loss of support In fact, although the number of reported social ties decreased over time, the amount of emotional and instrumental support reported, for the most part, increased These ... in social support Changes in Social Support The present study extends previous work on the dynamic nature of support (e.g., Antonucci, 1991) On the positive side, to the extent that the pruning...

... al.: Low RBM3 protein expression correlates with tumour progression and poor prognosis in malignant melanoma: An analysis of 215 cases from the Malmö Diet and Cancer Study Journal of Translational ... that the RNA- and DNA-binding protein RBM3 is an independent biomarker of a prolonged OS in patients with primary malignant melanoma and that RBM3 expression is lost during progression of the ... using siRNA techniques in breast cancer cell lines [14] and ovarian cancer cell lines [15] and similar results have been obtained regarding the staining distribution in various normal and cancerous...

... or autologous origin of the donor cells or to the difference in the batch of oocytes used Comparative study using heterologous and autologous donor cells with the same batch of oocytes should be ... with the developmental competence of the oocytes [13] The cumulus cells used in this study were obtained from IVM oocytes In addition, cumulus cells and follicular cells were cultured for 18 and ... cumulus cells from the same pig than from SCNT using autologous follicular cells and heterologous skin fibroblasts (5 ± 2% and 10 ± 1%) There was no significant difference in blastocyst cell number...

... pressure ventilation in acute respiratory failure Organised jointly by the American Thoracic Society, the European Respiratory Society, the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and the Societe ... primary research The last day of this year’s symposium was sadly abandoned by many due to the Belgian rail strike Despite this, the usual convivial atmosphere, both in and around the congress, was ... fractional inspired oxygen, and the level/utility of pulmonary artery wedge pressure measurements continue Gattinoni (Milan, Italy) presented the results of the longawaited Italian multicentre randomized...

... Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Puerto Rico Northern America: United States and Canada Oceania: Australia and New Zealand Asia: India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Israel, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong ... Summary of Baseline Characteristics Used in Mortality Models and Associated Hospital Mortality, a Univariate Analysis; Table S5: Improvement in Baseline Imbalance Using Propensity Score Analysis ... http://ccforum.com/content/14/3/R102 approval to access and retrieve data from the study database Patients Patients could be enrolled in the study only if they had a diagnosis of severe sepsis and were treated in the ICU The...

... moderating roles of impression management, Machiavellianism, and the potential beneficiaries of the knowledge sharing Including knowledge sharing in the appraisal system had a stronger impact ... differences as antecedents of these behaviors A major gap in past research is the general dearth of empirical work that invokes an interactionist approach to studying extra- role behaviors Study looks at ... sharing in the appraisals system (or the joint usage of both appraisals and group based rewards) is the most effective strategy for promoting knowledge sharing in an organization At American Management...