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Induction Of Clindamycin Resistance In Erythromycin-Resistant, Clindamycin Susceptible And Methicillin-Resistant Clinical Staphylococcal Isolates, Abdulrahman A. Kader, Angamuthu Kumar, Ananth Krishna Dec 2005

Induction Of Clindamycin Resistance In Erythromycin-Resistant, Clindamycin Susceptible And Methicillin-Resistant Clinical Staphylococcal Isolates, Abdulrahman A. Kader, Angamuthu Kumar, Ananth Krishna

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate the in vitro ability of erythromycin to induce clindamycin in erythromycin resistant and clindamycin susceptible clinical isolates of Staphylococci. METHODS: We studied 291 clinical isolates of erythromycin-resistant (ER-R) clindamycin-susceptible Staphylococci (CL-S) at Almana General Hospitals, Al-Khobar, Dammam, Saudi Arabia during the period from June 2004 to May 2005. The isolates included 70 Staphylococcus aureus, 81 Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and 140 coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CNS). We examined these isolates for inducible clindamycin resistance (ICR) by erythromycin induction test using double disc susceptibility test (D-test). Strains producing ICR show flattening of the clindamycin disc zone adjacent to the …

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Metabolic Syndrome In Saudi Arabia, Mansour Al-Nozha, Akram Al-Khadra, Mohammed R. Arafah, Mohammed A. Al-Maatouq, Mohamed Z. Khalil, Nazeer B. Khan, Yaqoub Y. Al-Mazrou, Khalid Al-Marzouki, Saad S. Al-Harthi, Moheeb Abdullah, Maie S. Al-Shahid, Abdulellah Al-Mobeireek, Mohmmed S. Nouh Dec 2005

Metabolic Syndrome In Saudi Arabia, Mansour Al-Nozha, Akram Al-Khadra, Mohammed R. Arafah, Mohammed A. Al-Maatouq, Mohamed Z. Khalil, Nazeer B. Khan, Yaqoub Y. Al-Mazrou, Khalid Al-Marzouki, Saad S. Al-Harthi, Moheeb Abdullah, Maie S. Al-Shahid, Abdulellah Al-Mobeireek, Mohmmed S. Nouh

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a well-established risk factor for the development of coronary artery disease (CAD). We designed this study to obtain the prevalence of MS and each of its components in Saudi Arabia. This study is part of Coronary Artery Disease in Saudi Study (CADISS). METHODS: We conducted this community-based national epidemiological health survey by examining Saudi subjects in the age group of 30-70 years of selected households over a 5-year period between 1995 and 2000 in Saudi Arabia. We interviewed all subjects, examined and took measurements of their blood pressure, weight, height, waist circumference, as well as …

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Results And Complications Of External Dacryocystorhinostomy Surgery At A Teaching Hospital In Iran, Mohammad R. Besharati, Abolghasem Rastegar Dec 2005

Results And Complications Of External Dacryocystorhinostomy Surgery At A Teaching Hospital In Iran, Mohammad R. Besharati, Abolghasem Rastegar

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To conduct a survey of outcomes, failure frequency rates, and other complications of dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) at a teaching hospital in Iran. METHODS: In this outcome study, we survey the results of DCR in 187 consecutive chronic dacryocystitis patients operated at the Eye Department of Yazd Medical University, Iran from March 2001 to April 2003. We investigated the results and probable complications of this surgical procedure. RESULTS: Our data shows that the success rate of the operation was 90.4% with a confidence interval of 95% (86.3-94.5). The success rate was 91% in female and 89.3% in males (p=0.543). The failure …

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Prevalence, Knowledge, Beliefs And Psychosocial Impact Of Acne In University Students In Central Saudi Arabia Dec 2005

Prevalence, Knowledge, Beliefs And Psychosocial Impact Of Acne In University Students In Central Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of acne among Qassim University students, and to evaluate the knowledge, beliefs, and its psychosocial impact on them. METHODS: We observed 717 students (381 males, and 336 females), at Qassim University Medical clinics during February and March 2005. We interviewed and examined the subjects for the presence of acne. After confirming the diagnosis, we asked the patients several questions about acne, history, knowledge, perceptions, beliefs, and its psychosocial impact on them. We performed statistical analysis using the chi-square test with a 5% significance level. RESULTS: We found 56.2% of the students to have acne. The …

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Prevalence Of Visual Deficits Among Young Men In Jordan, Wafed Ramadan, Wafa Asfour Dec 2005

Prevalence Of Visual Deficits Among Young Men In Jordan, Wafed Ramadan, Wafa Asfour

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To report the pattern of various causes of decreased visual acuity (VA), within the age group of young (18-25 years) healthy adults in Jordan. METHODS: We carried out this retrospective study on the records of 16550 candidates examined from June 2004 to June 2005 by the Medical Committee of Employment, Royal Medical Services in Amman, Jordan. All candidates received an ophthalmic examination as well as medical and ENT examination. We divided the candidates with visual acuity of less than 6/12 in either eye into 3 groups. RESULTS: The most important cause of decreased VA in the 18-25 years age …

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Ossifying Renal Tumor Of Infancy, Tareq K. El-Husseini, Siddig A. Egail, Ali M. Al-Orf, Colin Mostert Dec 2005

Ossifying Renal Tumor Of Infancy, Tareq K. El-Husseini, Siddig A. Egail, Ali M. Al-Orf, Colin Mostert

Saudi Medical Journal

Ossifying renal tumor of infancy ORTI is a benign neoplasm, which presents with gross hematuria and less frequently as an abdominal mass, histologically it comprises a large cell with an epithelial nature and osteoid formation. We report a case of a 10-month-old girl who developed ORTI as non-opacified upper calyces of left kidney on excretory urography. We outlined the calcific and tumors nature of the lesion by ultrasound and computed tomography. The macroscopic and histological features were pathognomonic.

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Anesthesia Management In Kabuki Make-Up Syndrome, Remziye Sivaci, Orhan K. Kahveci, Muge Celik, Ali Altuntas, Mustafa Solak Dec 2005

Anesthesia Management In Kabuki Make-Up Syndrome, Remziye Sivaci, Orhan K. Kahveci, Muge Celik, Ali Altuntas, Mustafa Solak

Saudi Medical Journal

Kabuki make-up syndrome KMS is a rare condition with a number of characteristic congenital abnormalities. The syndrome is characterized by peculiar facial appearance resembling the make-up of actors in Kabuki, the traditional Japanese theater, skeletal anomalies, dermatoglyphic abnormalities, postnatal growth deficiency, and mental retardation. These are rare reports of central nervous system dysfunctions, other than mental retardation, and no previously described congenital talipes calcaneo-valgus in this syndrome. We report the case of a 22-month-old girl having Kabuki make-up. At presentation, she had an adenoid hypertrophy and a history of recurrent otitis media. She had also delay in motor development, and …

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Ascites And Eosinophilic Colitis In A Young Patient, Mohammed A. Yassin, Fahmi Y. Khan, Ahmed Al-Ani, Zeinab Fawzy, Issam A. Al-Bozom Dec 2005

Ascites And Eosinophilic Colitis In A Young Patient, Mohammed A. Yassin, Fahmi Y. Khan, Ahmed Al-Ani, Zeinab Fawzy, Issam A. Al-Bozom

Saudi Medical Journal

A 32-year-old man presented with 3-weeks history of abdominal pain and distention. Physical examination showed ascites, with no stigmata of chronic liver disease. Cytological preparations from the ascitic fluid showed a heavy population of mature eosinophils. Histological examination of colonic biopsies revealed a heavy expansion of the mucosa by sheaths of eosinophils. On the following days, the peripheral eosinophilia, ascites and abdominal pain resolved spontaneously.

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A Death Due To Electrical Injury Through External Ear Canals, Bora Boz, Kemalettin Acar, Ayse Kurtulus, Gulden Cengel Dec 2005

A Death Due To Electrical Injury Through External Ear Canals, Bora Boz, Kemalettin Acar, Ayse Kurtulus, Gulden Cengel

Saudi Medical Journal

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The Incidence And Impact Of Lupus Anticoagulants Among Patients In The Intensive Care Unit, Abdulaziz S. Aldawood, Mark Crowther, Roman Jaeschke, Ousama Dabbagh, Khalid Alkhairy, Salim Baharoon, Nazir Ahmed Dec 2005

The Incidence And Impact Of Lupus Anticoagulants Among Patients In The Intensive Care Unit, Abdulaziz S. Aldawood, Mark Crowther, Roman Jaeschke, Ousama Dabbagh, Khalid Alkhairy, Salim Baharoon, Nazir Ahmed

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Actinomyces Meyeri Isolation From Synovial Fluid Of A Patient With Metastatic Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma, Emel S. Cetin, Selcuk Kaya, Mustafa Demirci, Buket C. Aridogan Dec 2005

Actinomyces Meyeri Isolation From Synovial Fluid Of A Patient With Metastatic Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma, Emel S. Cetin, Selcuk Kaya, Mustafa Demirci, Buket C. Aridogan

Saudi Medical Journal

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Self-Inflicted Needle In The Urethra Retrieved Endoscopically From The Bladder, Ali Al-Zahrani, Hamed El-Darawani, Yasser M. Al-Jehani, Khalid Moghazi, Ahmed El-Sadr Dec 2005

Self-Inflicted Needle In The Urethra Retrieved Endoscopically From The Bladder, Ali Al-Zahrani, Hamed El-Darawani, Yasser M. Al-Jehani, Khalid Moghazi, Ahmed El-Sadr

Saudi Medical Journal

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Torsion Of An Epiploic Appendix Mimicking Acute Appendicitis, Hisham S. Hurreiz, Callisto M. Madavo Dec 2005

Torsion Of An Epiploic Appendix Mimicking Acute Appendicitis, Hisham S. Hurreiz, Callisto M. Madavo

Saudi Medical Journal

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The Evaluation Of The Internet And Computer Utilization By The Fourth Grade Medical Students, Ali N. Yildiz, Candas Kilic, Gulsum I. Bayhan, Hale Goksever, Ozlem Karaarslan Dec 2005

The Evaluation Of The Internet And Computer Utilization By The Fourth Grade Medical Students, Ali N. Yildiz, Candas Kilic, Gulsum I. Bayhan, Hale Goksever, Ozlem Karaarslan

Saudi Medical Journal

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Diabetes In The Arab World, Basmah Al-Wahhabi Dec 2005

Diabetes In The Arab World, Basmah Al-Wahhabi

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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On Visiting The Bibliothèque Nationale: The Rough Guide, Claire Waters Dec 2005

On Visiting The Bibliothèque Nationale: The Rough Guide, Claire Waters

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Of Treaties And Torture: How The Supreme Court Can Restrain The Executive, Jeffrey C. Goldman Dec 2005

Of Treaties And Torture: How The Supreme Court Can Restrain The Executive, Jeffrey C. Goldman

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Title Vii Disparate Impact Suits Against State Governments After Hibbs And Lane, Claude Platton Dec 2005

Title Vii Disparate Impact Suits Against State Governments After Hibbs And Lane, Claude Platton

Duke Law Journal

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State Punishment And Private Prisons, Sharon Dolovich Dec 2005

State Punishment And Private Prisons, Sharon Dolovich

Duke Law Journal

To date, the debate over private prisons has focused largely on the relative efficiency of private prisons as compared to their publicly-run counterparts, and has assumed that, if private contractors can run the prisons for less money than the state without a drop in quality, then states should be willing to privatize. This "comparative efficiency" approach, however, has two significant problems. First, it is concerned exclusively with efficiency, despite the fact that the privatization of prisons arguably implicates more urgent values. Second, it accepts the current state of public prisons as an unproblematic baseline, thus failing to consider the possibility …

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Natural Forum And The Elusive Significance Of Jurisdiction Agreements, Tiong Min Yeo Dec 2005

Natural Forum And The Elusive Significance Of Jurisdiction Agreements, Tiong Min Yeo

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The Singapore court's power to stay its proceedings by reason of its not being the appropriate forum the proceedings ought not to be continued is underpinned by the common law principle enunciated in The Spiliada that generally a trial should be heard in its natural forum. The Rainbow Joy adds significantly to Singapore law on forum non conveniens on two important points. First, it establishes that it is not necessary to show that the alternative forum abroad is constituted as a court of law. Secondly, the case establishes that whether there is a defense claim on the merits is an …

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Cryptanalysis Of A Forward Secure Blind Signature Scheme With Provable Security, Shuhong Wang, Feng Bao, Robert H. Deng Dec 2005

Cryptanalysis Of A Forward Secure Blind Signature Scheme With Provable Security, Shuhong Wang, Feng Bao, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A forward secure blind signature scheme was proposed by Duc, Cheon and Kim, in ICICS 2003. The security of the scheme was proved to be equivalent to the strong RSA assumption in the random oracle model. In this paper we present an attack to the scheme by forging valid signatures with public keys only. The attack is so efficient that forging a valid signature needs less computation than legally generating a signature, even considering only the user side. Our result implies that the security proof of the scheme must be invalid. Furthermore we point out the fault of the proof …

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Sequential Aggregate Signatures Working Over Independent Homomorphic Trapdoor One-Way Permutation Domains, Huafei Zhu, Feng Bao, Robert H. Deng Dec 2005

Sequential Aggregate Signatures Working Over Independent Homomorphic Trapdoor One-Way Permutation Domains, Huafei Zhu, Feng Bao, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The contribution of this paper has two folds. In the first fold, we propose a generic construction of sequential aggregate signatures from families of certificated trapdoor one-way permutations. We show that our construction is provably secure in the random oracle model assuming that the underlying homomorphic permutations are trapdoor one-way. Compared to Lysyanskaya et al’s generic construction that is constructed from a trapdoor one-way permutation family working over the same domain [16], our scheme works over independent trapdoor one-way permutation domains. The flexible choice of the underlying permutation domains benefits our scheme to its applications in the real world where …

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An Efficient And Robust Computational Framework For Studying Lifetime And Information Capacity In Sensor Networks, Enrique J. Duarte-Melo, Mingyan Liu, Archan Misra Dec 2005

An Efficient And Robust Computational Framework For Studying Lifetime And Information Capacity In Sensor Networks, Enrique J. Duarte-Melo, Mingyan Liu, Archan Misra

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper we investigate the expected lifetime and information capacity, defined as the maximum amount of data (bits) transferred before the first sensor node death due to energy depletion, of a data-gathering wireless sensor network. We develop a fluid-flow based computational framework that extends the existing approach, which requires precise knowledge of the layout/deployment of the network, i.e., exact sensor positions. Our method, on the other hand, views a specific network deployment as a particular instance (sample path) from an underlying distribution of sensor node layouts and sensor data rates. To compute the expected information capacity under this distribution-based …

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New Efficient Mds Array Codes For Raid Part Ii: Rabin-Like Codes For Tolerating Multiple (>=4) Disk Failures, Gui-Liang Feng, Robert H. Deng, Feng Bao Dec 2005

New Efficient Mds Array Codes For Raid Part Ii: Rabin-Like Codes For Tolerating Multiple (>=4) Disk Failures, Gui-Liang Feng, Robert H. Deng, Feng Bao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A new class of Binary Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) array codes which are based on circular permutation matrices are introduced in this paper. These array codes are used for tolerating multiple (greater than or equal to 4) disk failures in Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) architecture. The size of the information part is m \times n, where n is the number of information disks and (m+1) is a prime integer; the size of the parity-check part is m \times r, the minimum distance is r+1, and the number of parity-check disks is r. In practical applications, m can be …

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A Scalable Correlation Aware Aggregation Strategy For Wireless Sensor Networks, Yujie Zhu, Ramanuja Vedantham, Seung Jong Park, Raghupathy Sivakumar Dec 2005

A Scalable Correlation Aware Aggregation Strategy For Wireless Sensor Networks, Yujie Zhu, Ramanuja Vedantham, Seung Jong Park, Raghupathy Sivakumar

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Sensors-to-sink data in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are typically correlated with each other. Exploiting such correlation when performing data aggregation can result in considerable improvements in the bandwidth and energy performance of WSNs. In order to exploit such correlation, we present a scalable and distributed correlation-aware aggregation structure that addresses the practical challenges in the context of aggregation in WSNs. Through simulations and analysis, we evaluate the performance of the proposed approach with centralized and distributed correlation aware and unaware structures.

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Distributed Simulation Modeling For Manufacturing Systems Design Using Xml, Rawinkhan Srinon, Sreeram Ramakrishnan Dec 2005

Distributed Simulation Modeling For Manufacturing Systems Design Using Xml, Rawinkhan Srinon, Sreeram Ramakrishnan

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Discrete event simulations have been used to model manufacturing systems. Various decomposition methods such as distributed simulations have been employed for this modeling. in the context of distributed simulations, each federate must be able to share the embedded logic with the other federates, irrespective of the software used to design and build such systems. This paper provides an extensible Markup Language (XML)-Based representation for distributed models that can be shared across the federation of simulations. Specifically, the paper outlines three different model components that forms the basis of a design framework for distributed simulation models - object model (for simulation …

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Harmony Search For Structural Design, Zong Woo Geem, Kang Seok Lee, Chung-Li Tseng Dec 2005

Harmony Search For Structural Design, Zong Woo Geem, Kang Seok Lee, Chung-Li Tseng

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Various algorithms have been developed and applied to structural optimization, in which cross-sectional areas of structure members are assumed to be continuous. in most cases of practical structure designs, however, decision variables (cross-sectional areas) are discrete. This paper proposes a combinatorial optimization model for structural design using a new nature-inspired algorithm, harmony search (HS). HS is also compared to genetic algorithms through a standard truss example. Numerical results reveal that the proposed HS is a powerful search algorithm for combinatorial structure optimization.

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A Mixed-Form Fast Multipole Algorithm, Li (Lijun) Jun Jiang, Weng Cho Chew Dec 2005

A Mixed-Form Fast Multipole Algorithm, Li (Lijun) Jun Jiang, Weng Cho Chew

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The fast multipole algorithm manifests in two very different forms at low frequencies and at mid frequencies. Each can operate in their respective regimes, but are not tenable in the other regimes. The paper reports on a way to factorize the Green's function for fast algorithm using a mixed form. The low-frequency fast multipole algorithm (LF-FMA) will be used at low frequencies or the long-wavelength regime, and the multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) will be used for the mid frequencies or the shorter-wavelength regime. For object modeling where both long-wavelength and wave physics are important, we propose a mixed-form fast …

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Remapping Hand Movements In A Novel Geometrical Environment, Kristine M. Mosier, Robert A. Scheidt, Santiago Acosta, Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi Dec 2005

Remapping Hand Movements In A Novel Geometrical Environment, Kristine M. Mosier, Robert A. Scheidt, Santiago Acosta, Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

The issue of how the Euclidean properties of space are represented in the nervous system is a main focus in the study of visual perception, but is equally relevant to motor learning. The goal of our experiments was to investigate how the properties of space guide the remapping of motor coordination. Subjects wore an instrumented data glove that recorded the finger motions. Signals generated by the glove operated a remotely controlled endpoint: a cursor on a computer monitor. The subjects were instructed to execute movements of this endpoint with controlled motions of the fingers. This required inverting a highly redundant …

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(Review) Self-Interest Before Adam Smith: A Genealogy Of Economic Science, Spencer J. Pack Dec 2005

(Review) Self-Interest Before Adam Smith: A Genealogy Of Economic Science, Spencer J. Pack

Economics Faculty Publications

Pierre Force, Self-Interest Before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. ix, 279, $65.00. ISBN 0-521 83060-5.

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