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20 Jun 2009
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Mini-epidemics of infection by Pseudomonas and its outbreak

Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies

Although outbreaks of infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa pseu extra-mural have been described, this germ is not pathogenic in the immune competent host. For against, it is a major agent of nosocomial infections, especially in the ICU, where he is responsible for pneumonia, urinary or skin...

20 Jun 2009
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Serotonin syndrome: A risk that should not be overlooked

Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies

Serotonin syndrome is a complication potentially lethal psychotropic. It is characterized by altered mental status and the presence of disorders neuro vegetative and neuromuscular. In most cases, this syndrome is secondary to the prescription of several drugs responsible for an increased rate of...

20 Jun 2009
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Reducing multi-medication in the elderly

Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies

The multi medication is generally defined as taking more than four concomitant medications. However, it can also be defined as the prescribing or use more drugs than those actually needed to care for a patient. The latter definition adds a qualitative dimension, that of the adequacy of the...

20 Jun 2009
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Prevention of recurrence of pre-term birth by progesterone

Thesis - 8 pages - Medical studies

For years, the prescription of progesterone in the event of a threat of premature birth was normal, despite the absence of any demonstration of a fetal or neonatal benefit in this situation. The description of an increased risk of cholestasis of pregnancy during this treatment was terminated this...

19 Jun 2009
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LED syndrome antiphospholipide and CNS

Thesis - 11 pages - Medical studies

The neurolupus represents the second leading cause of death in the LED. Although its incidence is high, it remains difficult to diagnose because of the diversity of events and the possible confusion with other brain diseases. In the absence of pathognomonic lesions, the diagnostic approach based...

18 Jun 2009
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Optical fiber based communication systems

Thesis - 26 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

For years, fiber optics has been merely a system for piping light around corners and into the inaccessible places to allow the hidden to be lighted. But now, fiber optics has evolved into a system of significantly greater importance and use. Throughout the world, it is now being used to transmit...

18 Jun 2009
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Pharmacodynamics of substance abuse

Thesis - 9 pages - Medical studies

Abuse of pharmacologically active substances has attracted in recent decades numerous pharmacological studies, using a wide range of models and methods, and generating a considerable literature. Several reasons explain this trend: first, of course, the extent of the scourge, the severity of their...

18 Jun 2009
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Lupus erythematosus and respiratory

Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies

Most patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have, during their illness, respiratory reached the most frequent is the pleurisy (one of the eleven diagnostic criteria recognized by the American Rheumatism Association). The respiratory events that found in the LED cover both the lung...

18 Jun 2009
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Intrinsic asthma

Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies

It is widely accepted that asthma is a clinical manifestation of atopy. Specially relevant in children, this concept is less obvious in adults where there is the classic distinction between asthma "extrinsic" (allergic) and "intrinsic" (non-allergic). Intrinsic Asthma is deliberately late third,...

18 Jun 2009
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Concrete technology

Presentation - 410 pages - Physics

The presentation is based on concrete and starts with the objectives of the presentation and moves onto a review of the composition of concrete. It then moves towards RCC structures and covers points like methods used in the designing of RCC structures, the codes used and the functions of...

17 Jun 2009
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E-Horoscope

Dissertation - 43 pages - Computer science

First, a horoscope is an astrological map of the heavens keyed to the time and place of a specific birth. It is a kind of a map that appears as a two dimensional chart. It shows positions of the Sun, the Moon, and planets at the precise moment of your birth. The earth moves from west to east &...

17 Jun 2009
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Asynchronous messaging services using Java

Dissertation - 47 pages - Computer science

Messaging Services provides asynchronous communication facility between two Business organizations. This system saves the time, money and reduces the man-power and both participant organizations may be benefited by each other. Consider two business organizations are an insurance company and the...

16 Jun 2009
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One dimensional cellular automata based security scheme with both authentication and confidentiality

Thesis - 11 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

In the past few years organization have widely adopted local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN) and internet to take advantages of advancement in technology1, 2. As a result of connecting private and internal network to the outside network, exchange of information is greatly facilitated....

16 Jun 2009
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Security using firewalls

Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science

In this age of universal electronic connectivity of viruses and hackers, of electronic Eavesdropping and electronic fraud, there is indeed no time at which security does not matter. The explosive growth in computer systems and their interconnections via network has increased the dependence of...

16 Jun 2009
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Active character technology based on neural networks Genetic Algorithms and AI

Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science

A combination of Neural networks genetic algorithms and conventional computing in Multimedia and Gaming industry has never been attempted before. Existing technologies operate on fixed databases and manipulate limited data that is bound by some logical algorithm. Even many of the AI based...

16 Jun 2009
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Network security on Bluetooth

Essay - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

Wireless communications offer organizations and users many benefits such as portability and flexibility, increased productivity, and lower installation costs. Wireless local area network (WLAN) devices, for instance, allow users to move their laptops from place to place within their offices...

16 Jun 2009
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Nano-robots: The molecular manipulators

Thesis - 8 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

A human fetus begins life as a single cell, and then divides to become two cells, then four, then eight and so on. Nanotechnology aims to build in a similar way, constructing objects out of their most basic components. A nanometer is a thousandth of a millionth of a meter. This is about as far...

16 Jun 2009
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A look at cogeneration

Thesis - 14 pages - Computer science

Power is one of the basic requirements for the economic development of a country. The performance of various activities is dependent on the availability of adequate and reliable power supply. Our country has made a rapid progress in the field of electricity generation. Thermal power plants are a...

16 Jun 2009
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Grid computing: Faster networking

Case study - 6 pages - Computer science

Today we are in the Internet world and everyone prefers to enjoy fast access to the Internet. But due to multiple downloading, there is a chance that the system hangs up or slows down the performance that leads to the restarting of the entire process from the beginning. This is one of the serious...

16 Jun 2009
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Security and advantages of cluster computing over distributed systems

Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science

A cluster is a parallel or distributed system consisting of independent computers that cooperate as a single system. In the case Server, Cluster consists of two types of participant's dispatchers and servers. The goal of a cluster is to allow distributing of the computing load over the several...

16 Jun 2009
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Cellular communication technologies: Understanding how the cellular service works

Thesis - 7 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

Today's work force is demanding mobility, flexibility and real-time access to critical data. Over recent years, the trend towards the smaller and faster device, coupled with the need for information access on the move, has paved the way for a new technology of the Mobile Communications. Mobility...

16 Jun 2009
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Authentication techniques: An overview

Thesis - 8 pages - Computer science

Authentication is a process by which one can prove the identity of a communicating partner and/or confirm the genuineness of a document. The process becomes a corner stone of security services in any applications ranging from “defense sector” to “grocery shop”. Initially,...

11 Jun 2009
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Parellel performance modelling using a genetic programming based error correction procedure

Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science

Performance models of high performance computing (HPC) applications are important for several reasons. First, they provide insight to designers of HPC systems on the role of subsystems such as the processor or the network in determining application performance. Second, they allow HPC centers more...

11 Jun 2009
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A report on activities on and around OFDM

Thesis - 5 pages - Physics

Multi-carrier communications are currently in a state of very rapid development, both in the introduction of new techniques and in its application to a wide variety of channels and services. Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a bandwidth-efficient signaling scheme for wideband...

11 Jun 2009
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Providing mobility management in a heterogeneous wireless networks

Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science

Mobile Routers moving in a heterogeneous network environment can take advantage of the different, often complementing, characteristics of the various wireless network technologies. Satellite and cellular networks can provide wide coverage outside urban areas. However, the cost of communications...

11 Jun 2009
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Location-based service over 3GPP IMS: Approaching real-time connectivity with the next generation of network communication

Essay - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

Emerging mobile applications will need location information for delivering the right services to right persons at right places and time. A location-based service (LBS) is an information and entertainment service, accessible with mobile devices through the mobile network and utilizing the ability...

11 Jun 2009
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Non inclusion property in chip multiprocessors with multi-level cache

Thesis - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

Difference between speed of processor and memory is increasing with the advent of new technology. Chip Multi Processors (CMP) has further increased the pressure on the memory hierarchy. So it has become important to manage on chip memory very judiciously to reduce average memory access time....

11 Jun 2009
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Cyber Terrorism: The darker side of internet applications

Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science

Cyber terrorism is the convergence of cyberspace and terrorism. Computers and the Internet are aggressively being used by many international terrorist groups. Although cyber terrorism attacks have not yet happened and also there is no such identified substantiation that terrorists are planning a...

11 Jun 2009
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Growth of distributed systems using grid computing and softer aspects of E science

Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science

Grid computing and eScience are two major areas of growth of distributed systems. The grid concept refers to the virtualization of computing resources in the sense that end-users should have the illusion of using a single source of computing power without knowing the locality of the computation....

11 Jun 2009
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Use of SOA and semantics for creating and retaining consistency in loosely coupled systems

Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science

The primary objective of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to use information technology to address the key goals of business today: innovation, agility, and market value. Agility in SOA is achieved by use of the principles of encapsulation, modularity, and loose coupling. Loose coupling...