Current educational status of pediatric rheumatology in Europe: the survey results

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Energy cost model for frequent item set discovery in unstructured P2P networks

For large scale distributed systems, designing energy efficient protocols and services has become as significant as considering conventional performance criteria like scalability, reliability, fault-tolerance and security. We consider frequent item set discovery problem in this context. Although it has attracted attention due to its extensive applicability in diverse areas, there is no prior work on energy cost model for such distributed protocols. In this paper, we develop an energy cost model for frequent item set discovery in unstructured P2P networks. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that proposes an energy cost model for a generic peer using gossip-based communication. As a case study protocol, we use our gossip-based approach ProFID for frequent item set discovery. After developing the energy cost model, we examine the effect of protocol parameters on energy consumption using our simulation model on PeerSim and compare push-pull method of ProFID with the well-known push-based gossiping approach. Based on the analysis results, we reformulate the upper bound for the peer's energy cost. © 2012 Springer-Verlag London Limited

Musculoskeletal sonography in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus

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A safe protocol for tuberculin test assessment in a country where BCG vaccination is mandatory

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Cardiovascular disease risk assessment in patients with familial Mediterranean fever related renal amyloidosis

Chronic inflammation and proteinuria is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with chronic kidney diseases and rheumatologic disorders. Our aim was to investigate the CVD events (CVDEs) and survival between the patients with FMF-related AA amyloidosis and glomerulonephropathies (GN) to define possible predictors for CVDEs. A prospective follow-up study with FMF-amyloidosis and glomerulonephropathy (GN) was performed and patients were followed for CVDEs. Flow-mediated dilatation (FMD), FGF-23, serum lipid, hsCRP levels, BMI and HOMA were assessed. A Cox regression analysis was performed to evaluate the risk factors for CVDEs. There were 107 patients in the FMF-amyloidosis group and 126 patients with GN group. Forty-seven CVDEs were observed during the 4.2-years follow up; all 28 patients in the FMF-amyloidosis group and 14/19 patients with GN developed CVDEs before the age of 40 (p = 0.002). CVD mortality was 2.8 times higher (95% CI 1.02–7.76) in patients with FMF-amyloidosis. Across both groups, FMD and FGF23 (p < 0.001) levels were independently associated with the risk of CVDEs. Patients with FMF-amyloidosis are at increased risk of early CVDEs with premature mortality age. FGF 23, FMD and hsCRP can stratify the risk of early CVD in patients with FMF-related AA amyloidosis

Does unity of Familial Mediterranean fever with juvenile idiopathic arthritis affect the outcome?

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Conditional stability theorem for the one dimensional Klein-Gordon equation

This is the published version, also available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3660780.The paper addresses the conditional non-linear stability of the steady state solutions of the one-dimensional Klein-Gordon equation for large time. We explicitly construct the center-stable manifold for the steady state solutions using the modulation method of Soffer and Weinstein and Strichartz type estimates. The main difficulty in the one-dimensional case is that the required decay of the Klein-Gordon semigroup does not follow from Strichartz estimates alone. We resolve this issue by proving an additional weighted decay estimate and further refinement of the function spaces, which allows us to close the argument in spaces with very little time decay