In this article, we demonstrated an optical-coding method to detect forward scattering and large angle scattering signals within microfluidic devices. Using silicon photodetectors, we can effectively discriminate the ...
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In this paper we explore the design options for the development of a combined physician-parent decision support tool for a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), known as PPADS or Physician and Parent Decision Support. ...
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In this paper we explore the design options for the development of a combined physician-parent decision support tool for a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), known as PPADS or Physician and Parent Decision Support. The work incorporates previous research on the development of a clinical data repository and the development of an NICU clinical decision support system (CDSS) for physicians that predicts mortality and a number of potential complications. In this work, we are combining the physician and parent tools to develop a system designed to facilitate parents' involvement in the shared decision-making process for difficult treatment decisions for their critically ill babies in the NICU. We have described the framework and architectural design for developing the combined physician-parent tool. We identified the design criteria and mode of operation, as well as the standards that apply to this type of decision system. We also explored the existing open-source technologies that would best fit this type of design. Finally, we have developed a prototype of the system that was evaluated by our physician partner and a nurse decision support specialist. Future work will involve a pilot usability study in a tertiary level NICU.
in the paper, we analyze and study the status character in detail which a rotor of some rotating mechanism exist in some different fault types and different fault strengths. The research result shows that a fault ...
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in the paper, we analyze and study the status character in detail which a rotor of some rotating mechanism exist in some different fault types and different fault strengths. The research result shows that a fault rotor reveals distinct return map images, which the rotor runs hi different malfunction status or different malfunction strengths. The research gives an effective method to explore fault character of complex mechanism chaotic dynamic system.
In this paper we present the development and evaluation of a parent decision support tool for a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), known as PPADS or Physician and Parent Decision Support. The NICU interprofessional ...
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(纸本)9781424441211
In this paper we present the development and evaluation of a parent decision support tool for a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), known as PPADS or Physician and Parent Decision Support. The NICU interprofessional (IP) team uses advanced technology to care for the sickest infants in the hospital, some at the edge of viability. Many difficult care decisions are made daily for this vulnerable population. The PPADS tool, a computerized decision support system, aims to augment current NICU decision-making by helping parents make more informed decisions, improving physician-parent communication, increasing parent decision-making satisfaction, decreasing conflict, and increasing decision efficiency when faced with ethically challenging situations. The development and evaluation of the PPADS tool followed a five step methodology: assessing the clinical environment, establishing the design criteria, developing the system design, implementing the system, and performing usability testing. Usability testing of the PPADS tool with parents of neonates who have graduated (survived) from a tertiary level NICU demonstrates the usefulness and ease of use of the tool.
Background: In bioinformatics projects, scientific workflow systems are widely used to manage computational procedures. Full-featured workflow systems have been proposed to fulfil the demand for workflow management. H...
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Background: In bioinformatics projects, scientific workflow systems are widely used to manage computational procedures. Full-featured workflow systems have been proposed to fulfil the demand for workflow management. However, such systems tend to be over-weighted for actual bioinformatics practices. We realize that quick deployment of cutting-edge software implementing advanced algorithms and data formats, and continuous adaptation to changes in computational resources and the environment are often prioritized in scientific workflow management. These features have a greater affinity with the agile software development method through iterative development phases after trial and error. Here, we show the application of a scientific workflow system Pwrake to bioinformatics workflows. Pwrake is a parallel workflow extension of Ruby's standard build tool Rake, the flexibility of which has been demonstrated in the astronomy domain. Therefore, we hypothesize that Pwrake also has advantages in actual bioinformatics workflows. Findings. We implemented the Pwrake workflows to process next generation sequencing data using the Genomic Analysis Toolkit (GATK) and Dindel. GATK and Dindel workflows are typical examples of sequential and parallel workflows, respectively. We found that in practice, actual scientific workflow development iterates over two phases, the workflow definition phase and the parameter adjustment phase. We introduced separate workflow definitions to help focus on each of the two developmental phases, as well as helper methods to simplify the descriptions. This approach increased iterative development efficiency. Moreover, we implemented combined workflows to demonstrate modularity of the GATK and Dindel workflows. Conclusions: Pwrake enables agile management of scientific workflows in the bioinformatics domain. The internal domain specific language design built on Ruby gives the flexibility of rakefiles for writing scientific workflows. Furthermore, readability
We research the multimedia information hiding (MIH) which is a technology to overlay digital information on multimedia contents such as picture, sound, document, etc. As application to disaster management of MIH, we h...
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We research the multimedia information hiding (MIH) which is a technology to overlay digital information on multimedia contents such as picture, sound, document, etc. As application to disaster management of MIH, we have developed a new technology called "PAIH" (Public Address information Hiding) which is a technology to overlay information such as position or destination on siren sound of urgent vehicles. Siren sound is allowed to degrade of sound quality, but PAIH is required to decode correct information from siren sound with pitch shift (Doppler effect) or under noisy environment.
A specialization system is an axiomatic structure for specifying a set of atomic formulas and a set of specialization operations on them. This paper formalizes the concept of logical structure and presents three basic...
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(纸本)9781467301275
A specialization system is an axiomatic structure for specifying a set of atomic formulas and a set of specialization operations on them. This paper formalizes the concept of logical structure and presents three basic ways of logical structure construction, i.e., generating a logical structure from a specialization system, constructing a conjunctive logical structure, and logical structure morphing. Instantiations of the proposed framework in the context of first-order logic, clausal-form logic, and a basic description logic are illustrated. The merits of the framework in understanding different logical systems and logical structure extension are described.
This paper discusses the role of casual attributions and positive emotion in trust repair of *** equation modeling(SEM) was used in our study to analyze 517 valid online *** empirical results indicate that casual attr...
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This paper discusses the role of casual attributions and positive emotion in trust repair of *** equation modeling(SEM) was used in our study to analyze 517 valid online *** empirical results indicate that casual attributions(locus and stability) have a negative impact on positive emotion;however,controllability opposing our initial expectation has a positive impact on positive *** the same time,positive emotion not only influences trust but also mediates the effect of casual attributions on trust.
Sliding mode control (SMC) has been considered as a powerful method for disturbances rejection. On the other hand, we have presented an equivalent-input disturbance (EID) approach to reject disturbances. This paper ta...
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Sliding mode control (SMC) has been considered as a powerful method for disturbances rejection. On the other hand, we have presented an equivalent-input disturbance (EID) approach to reject disturbances. This paper takes a dual-stage feed drive as an example to compare these two methods. The example shows that, while the EID approach obtains almost the same disturbance rejection performance for matched disturbances as that of the SMC does, it can reject unmatched disturbances. This shows the superiority of the EID approach over SMC method.
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