. Additionally, the particular design of the dipole vacuum chamber has been optimized to allow an excellent transmission of these far-infrared wavelengths. We believe that the CIRCE source can be constructed for a modest cost.

Background: Safe and cost-effective programs for implementing early infant male circumcision (EIMC) in Africa need to be piloted. We present results on a relative cost analysis within a randomized noninferiority trial of EIMC comparing the AccuCirc device with Mogen clamp in Zimbabwe. Methods

audience. The studies included in this article represent the most significant research in the area of health costs, cost-effectiveness, and resource utilization. (Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2012;5:e9-e15.) The rising cost of health care is front-page news. According to theKaiser Family Foundation

The objective of this study was to compare healing rates and costs of treating venous ulcers with traditional Unna boots (UB) or a CircAid Thera-Boot (TB). A multicenter, prospective, randomized parallel-group study was performed in three university medical center vascular surgery clinics and three

-induced alterations in cardiac ionic currents), which can put patients at risk of developing cardiac arrhythmias such as Torsades de Pointes (TdP). An optimal preclinical evaluation of drug cardiotoxicity is pivotal to reduce the huge costs of the drug development process since by the time a drug reaches the clinical

Background—Congenital heart disease consumes significant health care resources; however, there are limited data regarding factors affecting resource utilization. The purpose of this study was to evaluate variation between centers in total hospital costs for 4 congenital heart operations of varying

Circ and NATs, and in particular the effect of nesting. The latter is found a source of complexity, as both formalisms are proved to be PSPACE-complete. We identify cases of lower complexity, including a tractable case. Our results give insight into the "cost" of using L Circ resp. NATs

(NATs) as a tool for modular knowledge representation, tailored for applying circumscription to minimize exceptional circumstances. Abstracting from this particular objective, we propose L CIRC , which is an extension of generic propositional circumscription by allowing propositional combinations

with premature deaths consume the greatest proportion of the costs associated with this disease. In spite of some limitations of study, this could be a reliable evid-ence of economic burden of inflammatory heart disease. (Korean Circ J 2011;41:712-717)

. Ensuring high quality in requirements is dicult and costly, and often requires extensive study on the part of the requirement engineer (RE) of the applicative domain. An interesting alternative to the traditional approach is the adoption of a cooperative requirement writing (CRW) process