I n this essay I have undertaken what may be frankly admitted a philosophic inquiry into the
mind and writings of Edgar Allan Poe. I know that professional philosophers (if they should …

Twenty-eight patients with delayed gastric emptying as measured by an abnormal barium “burger”
were treated with metoclopramide in a randomized, double-blind fashion. Five had …

Nutritional status was investigated in 10 patients who had previously undergone total
gastrectomy without evidence of malignancy. The ability of these patients to ingest and absorh …

Background Thoughtful use of assessment tools to monitor disease requires an understanding
of clinimetric properties. These properties are often under-reported and, thus, potentially …

Data cache misses reduce the performance of wide-issue processors by stalling the data
supply to the processor. Prefetching data by predicting the miss address is one way to tolerate …

Direct-mapped caches are often plagued by conflict misses because they lack the associativity
to store more than one memory block in each set. However, some blocks that have no …

Objectives: To compare a proprietary extract of American ginseng, CVT‐E002, with placebo
in preventing acute respiratory illness (ARI) in an institutional setting during the influenza …

BACKGROUND: Fat grafting has been shown clinically to improve the quality of burn scars.
To date, no study has explored the mechanism of this effect. We aimed to do so by …

This case describes a 40-year-old man with abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting, who
was found to have a cystic lesion in the tail of the pancreas. Distal pancreatectomy and …

More and more scientists and engineers are becoming interested in using supercomputers.
Earlier barriers to using these machines are disappearing as software for their use improves. …