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The Critical Link of CPOE and Patient Safety

Underlying patient safety concerns is the gap between management and clinicians. The Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) and support systems are creating a bridge, linking the two divisions and potentially integrating a fragmented healthcare industry. The IT systems provide discipline with quality control thus reducing medical errors. These IT-driven systems can further link entire healthcare systems. Through successful implementation of IT-driven processes emerges a healthcare network with a focus on patient safety. Without proper acknowledgement and cooperation, successful implementation is difficult. Both clinicians and management must work towards the same goal: increase patient safety. However, unless one sector understands the other and is able to develop measuring standards, our endeavors cannot reach their full potential and our goal remains unfulfilled. This paper addresses an emerging means of linking clinicians with management using a market model to monitor progress. MEDICAL ERRORS AND THE CPOE Medical errors and adverse drug effects are some of the major concerns in healthcare industries for both healthcare providers as well as administrative professionals (Potts, Barr, Gregory, and Patel, 2004). The Institute of Medicine reported that an estimated 44,000 to 98,000 of patient deaths result each year from medical errors in American hospitals. Approximately, $17 billion of the $37.6 billion cost in medical errors can be prevented (Notturno, Firestone, McElroy, Murray, 2004). According to the KMCI Research Center, the problem is social as well as scientific essentially underlying knowledge management, epistemology and philosophy of science (Notturno et al, 2004). The CPOE system reduces medication errors and adverse drug effects. Inadequate availability of patient information, such as timely laboratory results, was directly asscoaited with nearly 18 percent of events involving adverse drug effects (Leape et al, 1995). Studies in a pediatric critical care unit also showed positive results of its usage.
USENIX Association Proceedings of USITS ’ 03 : 4 th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems

In this paper, we argue that a broad range of large-scale network services would benefit from a scalable mechanism for delivering state about a random subset of global participants. Key to this approach is ensuring that membership in the subset changes periodically and with uniform representation over all participants. Random subsets could help overcome inherent scaling limitations to services that maintain global state and perform global network probing. It could further improve the routing performance of peer-to-peer distributed hash tables by locating topologically-close nodes. This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of RanSub, a scalable protocol for delivering such state. As a first demonstration of the RanSub utility, we construct SARO, a scalable and adaptive application-layer overlay tree. SARO uses RanSub state information to locate appropriate peers for meeting application-specific delay and bandwidth targets and to dynamically adapt to changing network conditions. A large-scale evaluation of 1000 overlay nodes participating in an emulated 20,000node wide-area network topology demonstrate both the adaptivity and scalability (in terms of per-node state and network overhead) of both RanSub and SARO. Finally, we use an existing streaming media server to distribute content through SARO running on top of the PlanetLab Internet testbed.
Policy transfer in global perspective

Contents: Introduction: is policy transfer rational policy-making? , Mark Evans Understanding policy transfer, Mark Evans. Policy Transfer between Developed Countries: Policy transfer networks: an insider perspective, Mark Evans with Paul McComb Policy transfer in a competition state: Britain's new deal, Mark Evans Environmental policy transfer in Germany and Greece, Stella Ladi. Policy Transfer from Developed to Developing Countries: Policy transfer in a transition state: the case of local government reform in the Ukraine, Veronica Ivanova and Mark Evans Policy transfer in Kyrgyzstan: the case of general practice fund-holding, Andrew Street Transferring higher education policies to Mexico: the case of the technological universities, Pedro Flores-Crespo Public management and policy transfer in South-East Asia, Richard Common. Policy Transfer from Developed Countries: Policy transfer and the developing country experience gap: taking a Southern perspective, Anthony Nedley Policy transfer between developing countries: the transfer of the Bolsa-Escola programme to Ecuador, Xenia Lana and Mark Evans In conclusion - policy transfer in global perspective, Mark Evans Bibliography Index.
Lung cancer with scattered consolidation: detection of new independent radiological category of peripheral lung cancer on thin-section computed tomography.

OBJECTIVES Ground glass opacity (GGO) on thin-section computed tomography (CT) has been reported to be a favourable prognostic marker in lung cancer, and the size or area of GGO is commonly used for preoperative evaluation. However, it can sometimes be difficult to evaluate the status of GGO. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted on 572 consecutive patients with resected lung cancer of clinical stage IA between 2004 and 2011. All patients underwent preoperative CT and their radiological findings were reviewed. The areas of consolidation and GGO were evaluated for all lung cancers. Lung cancers were divided into three categories on the basis of the status of GGO: GGO, part solid and pure solid. Lung cancers in which it was difficult to measure GGO were selected and their clinicopathological features were investigated. RESULTS Seventy-one (12.4%) patients had lung cancer in whom it was difficult to measure GGO. In all these cases, consolidation and GGO were not easily measured because of their scattered distribution. In this cohort, nodal metastases were not observed at all. The frequency of other pathological factors, such as lymphatic and/or vascular invasion, was significantly lower (P < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS This new category of lung cancer with scattered consolidation on thin-section CT scan tended to be pathologically less invasive. When lung cancer has GGO and is difficult to measure because of a scattered distribution, its prognosis could be favourable regardless of the area of GGO. This new category could be useful for the preoperative evaluation of lung cancer.
An Efficient Method of Sharing Mass Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Data Based on Cloudera Impala for Traffic Distribution Mapping in an Urban City

The efficient sharing of spatio-temporal trajectory data is important to understand traffic congestion in mass data. However, the data volumes of bus networks in urban cities are growing rapidly, reaching daily volumes of one hundred million datapoints. Accessing and retrieving mass spatio-temporal trajectory data in any field is hard and inefficient due to limited computational capabilities and incomplete data organization mechanisms. Therefore, we propose an optimized and efficient spatio-temporal trajectory data retrieval method based on the Cloudera Impala query engine, called ESTRI, to enhance the efficiency of mass data sharing. As an excellent query tool for mass data, Impala can be applied for mass spatio-temporal trajectory data sharing. In ESTRI we extend the spatio-temporal trajectory data retrieval function of Impala and design a suitable data partitioning method. In our experiments, the Taiyuan BeiDou (BD) bus network is selected, containing 2300 buses with BD positioning sensors, producing 20 million records every day, resulting in two difficulties as described in the Introduction section. In addition, ESTRI and MongoDB are applied in experiments. The experiments show that ESTRI achieves the most efficient data retrieval compared to retrieval using MongoDB for data volumes of fifty million, one hundred million, one hundred and fifty million, and two hundred million. The performance of ESTRI is approximately seven times higher than that of MongoDB. The experiments show that ESTRI is an effective method for retrieving mass spatio-temporal trajectory data. Finally, bus distribution mapping in Taiyuan city is achieved, describing the buses density in different regions at different times throughout the day, which can be applied in future studies of transport, such as traffic scheduling, traffic planning and traffic behavior management in intelligent public transportation systems.
Evaluation of universal antenatal screening for group B streptococcus.

BACKGROUND Group B streptococcal disease is one of the most common infections in the first week after birth. In 2002, national guidelines recommended universal late antenatal screening of pregnant women for colonization with group B streptococcus to identify candidates for intrapartum chemoprophylaxis. METHODS We evaluated the implementation of the guidelines in a multistate, retrospective cohort selected from the Active Bacterial Core surveillance, a 10-state, population-based system that monitors invasive group B streptococcal disease. We abstracted data from the labor and delivery records of a stratified random sample of live births and of all cases in which the newborn had early-onset group B streptococcal disease (i.e., disease in infants <7 days of age) in 2003 and 2004. We compared our results with those from a study with a similar design that evaluated screening practices in 1998 and 1999. RESULTS We abstracted records of 254 births in which the infant had group B streptococcal disease and 7437 births in which the infant did not. The rate of screening for group B streptococcus before delivery increased from 48.1% in 1998-1999 to 85.0% in 2003-2004; the percentage of infants exposed to intrapartum antibiotics increased from 26.8% to 31.7%. Chemoprophylaxis was administered in 87.0% of the women who were positive for group B streptococcus and who delivered at term, but in only 63.4% of women with unknown colonization status who delivered preterm. The overall incidence of early-onset group B streptococcal disease was 0.32 cases per 1000 live births. Preterm infants had a higher incidence of early-onset group B streptococcal disease than did term infants (0.73 vs. 0.26 cases per 1000 live births); however, 74.4% of the cases of group B streptococcal disease (189 of 254) occurred in term infants. Missed screening among mothers who delivered at term accounted for 34 of the 254 cases of group B streptococcal disease (13.4%). A total of 61.4% of the term infants with group B streptococcal disease were born to women who had tested negative for group B streptococcus before delivery. CONCLUSIONS Recommendations for universal screening were rapidly adopted. Improved management of preterm deliveries and improved collection, processing, and reporting of culture results may prevent additional cases of early-onset group B streptococcal disease.
Semantic Web Service discovery and information fusion using OWLS and SPARQL formal specifications over NATO JC 3 IEDM and TIDE services

Present trends show that the number of services available for decision makers on the battlefield in networked C4ISR systems will increase dramatically over the next few years. Military communication systems The need to automatically discover and consume available information sources is necessarily to achieve information superiority in the area of conflict. The information sources could differ from each other in terms of technology, protocols, data formats and specially semantics: legacy databases, standalone applications, web applications etc. As soon as they are connected to the network they can be automatically interrogated by agents to extract required information. As an agent we define a computer program that is capable of understanding information semantics. In this paper we demonstrate results of conducted research in field of ontology design for military C4ISR interoperability, where the services offered by the legacy systems and NEC enabled environments which collaborate in order to achieve information superiority.
Liquidity and bank capital requirements

in equilibrium. The capital-asset ratio of banks increases in illiquidity of bank assets and the volatility of the market price of bank assets. In the model, both a negative productivity shock and an increase in the degree of asymmetric information can cause a simultaneous deterioration of illiquidity of assets and the market price of assets.
Spectroscopic orbits and variations of RS Oph

The aims of our study are to improve the orbital elements of the giant and to derive the spectroscopic orbit for the white dwarf companion. Spectral variations related to the 2006 outburst are also studied. The spectroscopic orbits have been obtained by measuring the radial velocities of the cool component absorption lines and the broad Halpha emission wings, which seem to be associated with the hot component. A set of cF-type absorption lines were also analyzed for a possible connection with the hot component motion. A new period of 453.6 days and a mass ratio, q=M_g/M_h=0.59 were determined. Assuming a massive white dwarf as the hot component, M_h= 1.2-1.4 M_{\odot}, the red giant mass is M_g= 0.68-0.80 M_{\odot} and the orbit inclination, i = 49-52^{\circ}. The cF-type lines are not associated with either binary component, and are most likely formed in the material streaming towards the hot component. We also confirm the presence of the LiI doublet in RS Oph and its radial velocities fit very well the M-giant radial velocity curve. Regardless of the mechanism involved to produce lithium, its origin is most likely from within the cool giant rather than material captured by the giant at the time of the nova explosion. In April 2006 most of the emission lines present a broad pedestal with a strong and narrow component at about -20 km/s and two other extended emission components at -200 and +150 km/s. These components could originate in a bipolar gas outflow supporting the model of a bipolar shock-heated shell expanding through the cool component wind perpendicularly to the binary orbital plane.
Systems Biology of Cancer: A Challenging Expedition for Clinical and Quantitative Biologists

A systems-biology approach to complex disease (such as cancer) is now complementing traditional experience-based approaches, which have typically been invasive and expensive. The rapid progress in biomedical knowledge is enabling the targeting of disease with therapies that are precise, proactive, preventive, and personalized. In this paper, we summarize and classify models of systems biology and model checking tools, which have been used to great success in computational biology and related fields. We demonstrate how these models and tools have been used to study some of the twelve biochemical pathways implicated in but not unique to pancreatic cancer, and conclude that the resulting mechanistic models will need to be further enhanced by various abstraction techniques to interpret phenomenological models of cancer progression.
CPHR: In-Network Caching for Information-Centric Networking With Partitioning and Hash-Routing

Recently, research on Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has flourished, which attempts to shift from the current host-oriented Internet architecture to an information-oriented one. The built-in caching capability is a typical feature of ICN. In this paper, in order to fully exploit the built-in caching capability of ICN, we propose a collaborative in-network caching scheme with Content-space Partitioning and Hash-Routing, which is named as CPHR. By intelligently partitioning the content space and assigning partitions to caches, CPHR is able to constrain the path stretch incurred by hash-routing. We formulate the problem of assigning partitions to caches into an optimization problem of maximizing the overall hit ratio and propose a heuristic algorithm to solve it. We also formulate the partitioning proportion problem into a min-max linear optimization problem to balance cache workloads. By simulations with both the characteristics of real Internet traffic and traces of peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic, we show the necessity of collaborative caching since the en-route caching mode cannot yield a considerable overall hit ratio with practical cache size. It is shown as well that CPHR can significantly increase the overall hit ratio by up to about 100% with the practical cache policy Least Recently Used (LRU) while the overhead incurred is acceptable in terms of propagation latency and load on links.
Consumer's Surplus Without Apology

The purpose of this paper is to settle the controversy surrounding consumer's surplus' and, by so doing, to validate its use as a tool of welfare economics. I will show that observed consumer's surplus can be rigorously utilized to estimate the unobservable compensating and equivalent variations-the correct theoretical measures of the welfare impact of changes in prices and income on an individual. I derive precise upper and lower bounds on the percentage errors of approximating the compensating and equivalent variations with consumer's surplus. These bounds can be explicitly calculated from observable demand data, and it is clear that in most applications the error of approximation will be very small. In fact, the error will often be overshadowed by the errors involved in estimating the demand curve. The results in no way depend upon arguments about the constancy of the marginal utility of income. Consequently, this paper supplies specific empirical criteria which can replace the apologetic caveats frequently employed by those who presently apply consumer's surplus. Moreover, the results imply that consumer's surplus is usually a very good approximation to the appropriate welfare measures. To preview, below I establish the validity of these rules of thumb: For a
Random points on the boundary of smooth convex bodies

The convex hull of n independent random points chosen on the boundary of a convex body K C R d according to a given density function is a random polytope. The expectation of its i-th intrinsic volume for i = 1,. , d is investigated. In the case that the boundary of K is sufficiently smooth, asymptotic expansions for these expected intrinsic volumes as n → oo are derived.
Tracking vehicle targets with large aspect change

In this paper we present a novel method for tracking rigid objects (mostly vehicles) in video sequences with cluttered background, obtained from a mobile camera. We estimate the motion model of the target using corners extraction and matching together with LMedS statistical approach. The resultant model assists an active contour (snake) to track the target efficiently. To avoid tracking errors resulting from large aspect change of the target, we propose a snake with an automatic local swelling mechanism. This mechanism enables the snake to include new parts of the target which appear as a result of large aspect change. Several experiments have been conducted to show the promise of our algorithms. Key words: contour tracking , moving target , aspect change , active contour , feature matching
The impact of women in congress

This is a major new assessment of the impact of women members of the US Congress on public policy and Congress itself. Drawing on three key case studies (reproductive health, women's health, and health policy) from the 103rd and 104th Congresses, Dodson highlights the complex forces that shape what women members do and their influence on the institution.
A CAD system for the design of field programmable gate arrays

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA’s) are a relatively new type of chip. This paper describes the software necessary to support two distinct but closely related aspects of them: the development of a new FPGA architecture, and the use of FPGA’s from an application viewpoint. The basic CAD support structure consists of a set of file formats and programs that successively bind and evaluate design decisions. The FPGA designer starts by specifying a block architecture as a schematic. This is analyzed, manipulated, and condensed into a set of files that characterize the routing capabilities and programming requirements of the proposed FPGA design. The application designer specifies a circuit in a standard format (SLIF). This is bound to the resources available in the generic FPGA. The result is a configuration file that maps the application onto the proposed FPGA fabric. During FPGA development, the efficiency of this mapping can be analyzed, and the architecture modified. Once the FPGA has been fabricated, the configuration data can be sent to the actual hardware.
Knockdown of Myostatin Expression by RNAi Enhances Muscle Growth in Transgenic Sheep

Myostatin (MSTN) has been shown to be a negative regulator of skeletal muscle development and growth. MSTN dysfunction therefore offers a strategy for promoting animal growth performance in livestock production. In this study, we investigated the possibility of using RNAi-based technology to generate transgenic sheep with a double-muscle phenotype. A shRNA expression cassette targeting sheep MSTN was used to generate stable shRNA-expressing fibroblast clones. Transgenic sheep were further produced by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) technology. Five lambs developed to term and three live lambs were obtained. Integration of shRNA expression cassette in three live lambs was confirmed by PCR. RNase protection assay showed that the shRNAs targeting MSTN were expressed in muscle tissues of three transgenic sheep. MSTN expression was significantly inhibited in muscle tissues of transgenic sheep when compared with control sheep. Moreover, transgenic sheep showed a tendency to faster increase in body weight than control sheep. Histological analysis showed that myofiber diameter of transgenic sheep M17 were bigger than that of control sheep. Our findings demonstrate a promising approach to promoting muscle growth in livestock production.
and Binyamin Hochner Arm the Obliquely Striated Muscle Cells of the Octopus Ionic Currents Underlying Fast Action Potentials in

[PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , August 1, 2005; 94 (2): 1459-1468. J Neurophysiol Yoram Yekutieli, Roni Sagiv-Zohar, Binyamin Hochner and Tamar Flash Dynamic Model of the Octopus Arm. II. Control of Reaching Movements [PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] 2006; 210 (3): 308-317. Biol Bull Binyamin Hochner, Tal Shomrat and Graziano Fiorito Memory Mechanisms The Octopus: A Model for a Comparative Analysis of the Evolution of Learning and [PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] 2006; 211 (3): 212-222. Biol Bull Yoram Gutfreund, Henry Matzner, Tamar Flash and Binyamin Hochner Patterns of Motor Activity in the Isolated Nerve Cord of the Octopus Arm
Autoencoder, Principal Component Analysis and Support Vector Regression for Data Imputation

Data collection often results in records that have missing values or variables. This investigation compares 3 different data imputation models and identifies their merits by using accuracy measures. Autoencoder Neural Networks, Principal components and Support Vector regression are used for prediction and combined with a genetic algorithm to then impute missing variables. The use of PCA improves the overall performance of the autoencoder network while the use of support vector regression shows promising potential for future investigation. Accuracies of up to 97.4 % on imputation of some of the variables were achieved.
A PSO-optimized type-2 fuzzy logic controller for navigation of multiple mobile robots

In this paper, an Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic controller was used to control the robot cooperation and target reaching tasks during navigation for multiple mobile robots. This controller had been optimized by the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm and the Hybrid Reciprocal Velocity Obstacles algorithm was also used to handle collision avoidance. This controller was tested on Webots™ robot simulation software and experimentally applied on two real E-puck mobile robots. The simulation and experimental results had shown that the optimized controller outperformed the same controller without optimization.