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International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (2007 : Cocoa Beach, Fla.)
No full textDigitized and published in SOAR: Shocker Open Access Repository by Wichita State University Libraries Technical Services, May 2022.The IEMS'07 conference committee: California State University Stanislaus Department of Management, Operations, and Marketing Department (Sponsor); Nael Aly (Conference Co-Chair/Proceedings Ed.); Ahmad Elshennawy (Conference Co-Chair); Alfred Petrosky (Program Chair); Adel Ali (Program Coordinator); Nabeel Yousef (Conference IT Director)Includes author index.This book features the proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (IEMS'07) held March 12-14, 2007 in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Proceedings includes 103 papers presented at the conference.Sponsor: Management, Operations, and Marketing Department, California State University, StanislausAbstract Concepts in Computer Science -- Accounting/Finance -- Automation/Intelligent Computing -- Construction Management -- Decision Making in Management and Engineering -- Decision Support Systems -- Education and Training -- Entrepreneurship -- Global Applications -- Human Computer Interaction -- Human Engineering -- Industry and Academia Collaboration -- Lean Enterprise -- Lean Six Sigma -- Management Information Systems -- Management and Organizational Behavior -- Management of Technology -- Marketing -- Operations Management -- Simulation and Modeling -- Statistical Quality Improvement and Control -- Supply Chain Management -- Technology Commercialization -- Abstract
The Time which Died Inside Myself - Convergence of Manaus City and Nael, Narrator in The Brothers
No full textEste artigo analisa as relações de confluência entre a cidade de Manaus e o narrador Nael, do romance Dois irmãos, de Milton Hatoum, perante as mudanças sociais ocorridas na cidade com a industrialização e a mercantilização dos bens culturais entre os anos de 1920 e 1960. Conforme Fredric Jameson (1992, 1997), durante esse período ocorrem transformações estéticas dos bens culturais, afetando a relações que estes estabelecem com os sujeitos. Para o autor, o capitalismo tardio pode ser visto como causa das mudanças que ocasionam o momento histórico-cultural denominado pós-modernidade. Desse modo, considerando que nesse período a cidade de Manaus passa por uma sede de desenvolvimento, esmaecendo aos poucos a sua história com a chegada do progresso e de uma política que privilegiou determinado setor social em detrimento de outros, pretendemos analisar a confluência que se estabelecem entre o narrador e o espaço urbano, uma vez que consideramos que Nael não apenas busca sua origem (identidade), mas luta por uma resistência política da própria espacialidade em que se insere como sujeito, preservando as memórias do que o faz vivo: a casa e a cidade.This article analyzes relationships of confluence between the Brazilian city of Manaus and the narrator of Milton Hatoum’s The Brothers, Nael, towards the social changes that occurred between 1920 and 1960 with the industrialization and the commodification of cultural goods. According to Fredric Jameson (1992, 1997), aesthetic transformations of cultural goods took place during this period, affecting the relationships that the latter establish with individuals. For the author, late capitalism can be considered a cause of the changes that entail the cultural-historical moment called "postmodernity". Thus, considering that in this period Manaus undergoes a thirst for "development" that progressively effaces its own History with progress and policies that favor a certain social sector over the other, we intend to analyze the confluence between the narrator and urban spaces, since we consider that Nael not only seeks knowledge about his origin (identity), but also struggles for the political resistance of the spatiality in which he acts as a subject, preserving memories of what makes him live: the house and the city
Symptomatic central nervous system involvement in adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia
No full textNael Alakel,1,* Friedrich Stölzel,1,* Brigitte Mohr,1 Michael Kramer,1 Uta Oelschlägel,1 Christoph Röllig,1 Martin Bornhäuser,1 Gerhard Ehninger,1 Markus Schaich2 1Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, 2Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine, Rems-Murr-Klinikum, Winnenden, Germany *These authors contributed equally to this work Introduction: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) rarely involves the central nervous system (CNS). Little is known about the clinical course in adult AML patients since most studies examined pediatric patients. Therefore, this study analyzed the data of patients treated in three prospective trials of the “Study Alliance Leukemia” (SAL) study group for CNS involvement.Methods: In all, 3,261 AML patients included in the prospective AML96, AML2003, and AML60+ trials of the SAL study group were analyzed. Symptomatic patients underwent cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) puncture and CNS involvement was diagnosed depending on morphology and/or flow cytometry of the CSF. Cytogenetic, molecular, clinical, and laboratory parameters were analyzed in order to identify risk factors.Results: A total of 55 patients had proven symptomatic CNS involvement. Significantly more patients revealed CNS involvement at relapse (34 patients, 2.9%) compared with first diagnosis (21 patients, 0.6%), p<0.001. CNS involvement at initial diagnosis had a significantly higher frequency in patients with complex aberrant karyotypes, high serum lactate dehydrogenase activity, French–American–British M5 subtype, FLT3–internal tandem duplication (ITD) mutations alone, and co-occurrence of a FLT3–ITD and NPM1 mutation. Furthermore, AML patients with CNS involvement at diagnosis had an inferior outcome compared with patients without CNS involvement even if treated with intrathecal chemotherapy with an overall survival of 11% versus 30% at 5 years, p=0.004.Conclusion: This study analyzed the largest data set of adult AML patients with proven CNS involvement reported so far. The data demonstrated very low prevalence of CNS involvement at initial diagnosis in adult patients with AML, and described new risk factors. In patients with risk factors, intense diagnostic and treatment strategies should be employed in the future. Keywords: Meningeal leukemia, CNS-involvement, cerebrospinal fluid, extramedullary leukemi
Primary prophylaxis of invasive fungal infections in patients with haematological malignancies: 2017 update of the recommendations of the Infectious Diseases Working Party (AGIHO) of the German Society for Haematology and Medical Oncology (DGHO)
No full textTreatment of invasive fungal diseases in cancer patients—Revised 2019 Recommendations of the Infectious Diseases Working Party (AGIHO) of the German Society of Hematology and Oncology (DGHO)
No full textThe contrast ratio and masking ability of lithium disilicate pressable veneering material
No full textPLEASE NOTE: This work is protected by copyright. Downloading is restricted to the BU community: please log in with a valid BU account to access and click Download. If you are the author of this work and would like to make it publicly available, please contact [email protected] (MSD) --Boston University Institute for Dental Research and Education, Dubai, 2011 (Department of Periodontology and Oral Biology).Includes bibliographic references: leaves 71-76
Interim Results of a Multicenter, Single-Arm Study to Assess Blinatumomab in Adult Patients (pts) with Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) of B-Precursor (BCP) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (GMALL-MOLACT1-BLINA)
No full textSmall Business Management
No full text64 p.Management is the glue that holds a successful business together. An owner has to rely on multiple management teams, while maintaining proficient knowledge of the many facets that make up his/her business. The author interned with a small printing business, Webco Press Inc. The research portion discusses the advantages of a small business in the United States and investigates essential management techniques. This section focuses on the specific skills that are crucial to ensuring a profitable business. Given the limited time resources of an owner, a basic level of knowledge of the many function of management is imperative
Spin Wave Normalization Toward All Magnonic Circuits
No full textThe key enabling factor for Spin Wave (SW) technology utilization for building ultra low power circuits is the ability to energy efficiently cascade SW basic computation blocks. SW Majority gates, which constitute a universal gate set for this paradigm, operating on phase encoded data are not input output coherent in terms of SW amplitude. Thus, their cascading requires information representation conversion from SW to voltage and back, which is by no means energy effective. In this paper, a novel conversion free SW gate cascading scheme is proposed that achieves SW amplitude normalization by means of a directional coupler. After introducing the normalization concept, we utilize it in the implementation of three simple circuits and, to demonstrate its bigger scale potential, of a 2-bit inputs SW multiplier. The proposed structures are validated by means of the Object Oriented Micromagnetic Framework (OOMMF) and GPU-accelerated Micromagnetics (MuMax3). Furthermore, we assess the normalization induced energy overhead and demonstrate that the proposed approach consumes 1.25 times to 1.5 times less energy when compared with the transducers based conventional counterpart. Finally, we introduce a normalization based SW 2-bit inputs multiplier design and compare it with functionally equivalent SW transducer based and 16nm CMOS designs. Our evaluation indicates that the proposed approach provided 1.34 times and 6.25 times energy reductions when compared with the conventional approach and 16nm CMOS counterpart, respectively, which demonstrates that our proposal is energy effective and opens the road towards the full utilization of the SW paradigm potential and the development of SW only circuits.Computer EngineeringQuantum & Computer Engineerin
Dois Irmãos and its precursors: a dialogue between the novel by Milton Hatoum, the Bible and the Amerindian mythology
No full textEsta dissertação detém-se na análise e na comparação do romance Dois Irmãos (2006), de Milton Hatoum, com a narrativa bíblica dos embates fraternos presentes no livro do Gênesis, especialmente o episódio dos gêmeos Esaú e Jacó. O relacionamento conflitante entre irmãos é um constante leitmotiv, um foco de interesse que se desenvolve de diversas formas ao longo de todo primeiro livro da Bíblia Hebraica. Hatoum vai à narrativa bíblica, considerada matriz do pensamento ocidental e da memória cultural da Humanidade pelo impulso do seu tema, logo, ele não parte da Bíblia. Como, então, o autor brasileiro trabalha o seu romance em que o fulcro é justamente o embate entre irmãos em torno da primogenitura (o que nos remeteria ao texto matricial bíblico Gênesis) para alinhavar sua ficção? A nossa viagem em busca dessa resposta é iluminada por um caminho tateante e trôpego. Como numa dança folclórica, narrador e protagonistas giram, trocam de lugar e se revezam nos papéis de Esaú, Jacó, Caim, Abel e José. Nossa pesquisa vai aproximar as narrativas ora por semelhanças ora por estranhamentos com base no romance de Hatoum. Buscaremos os vestígios da narrativa bíblica presentes na obra do autor brasileiro seguindo os rastros de Omar, Yaqub e, especialmente, Nael, um narrador intervalar, meio índio, meio árabe, filho bastardo de um dos gêmeos do romance com a cunhantã, empregada da família de origem libanesa. Diante de Nael, flertaremos o tempo todo com os olhos da memória. Nael nos conduzirá a uma surpreendente descoberta: é ele quem acende o foco nacional na nossa pesquisa e, como descendente do povo indígena do Amazonas, revela-se o mais legítimo herdeiro de toda ancestralidade mitológica, originária das lendas e mitos que envolvem gêmeos inimigos em narrativas tão ou mais milenares que a Bíblia. De certa forma, então, Nael rouba para si a luz, a princípio lançada sobre os gêmeos Omar e Yaqub, e se apropria da primogenitura quando estão em jogo o poder e o nome seja do patriarca da família libanesa, seja do mito original.The following dissertation focuses on the analysis and comparison of Milton Hatoums novel Dois Irmãos (The Brothers, 2006) and the biblical narrative of the fraternal clashes in the book of Genesis, especially that of the twins Jacob and Esau. The conflict-ridden relationship between brothers is a constant leitmotiv, a point of interest that develops in different ways throughout the first book of the Hebrew Bible. Hatoum seeks the biblical narrative matrix for Western thought and Humanitys cultural memory through the impulse of his theme, therefore he does not set out from the Bible. How then, does the Brazilian author progress through his novel, whose fulcrum is the clash between brothers in respect to their primogeniture, which brings us back to the generative biblical text of Genesis to baste his fiction? Our journey in search of this answer is brightened by a fumbling and stumbling path. As in a folkloric dance, narrator and protagonists spiral, trade places and take turns in the roles of Esau, Jacob, Cain, Abel, and Joseph. Our research will approximate these narratives either through similarities or through the estrangement from the Hatounian novel. We will seek the vestiges from the biblical narrative present in the Brazilian authors work following the trails of Omar, Yaqub, and especially the narrator, Nael. An interspersed narrator, half Indian, half Arab; bastard son, progeny of one of the novels twins and a young Indian girl, the Lebanese family\'s maid. Led by Nael\'s narrative, we will constantly flirt with the eyes of memory. Nael leads us to a surprising discovery: it is he who brings into focus the national scope in our research and, as a descendant to the indigenous Amazonian peoples, he reveals himself as the most legitimate heir to all mythological ancestrality born from folktales and myths of rival twins narratives that are as ancient if not more than the Bible. So, to a certain extent, Nael steals the light originally shined upon the twins Omar and Yaqub for himself and embraces the primogeniture, while the power and name are at stake, be it from the familys patriarch, or the original myth
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