February 17, 2004

Extramural Update February 2004

Introduction Whereas most studies focus on laboratory and clinical research, little is known about the causes of death and risk factors for death in critically ill patients. Methods Three thousand seven hundred patients admitted to an adult intensive care unit (ICU) were prospectively evaluated. Study endpoints were to evaluate causes of death and risk factors for death in the ICU, in the hospi...

Thursday 26 February 2004

s of the 2nd Scientific Conference "Restauración Neurológica 2004" 252 Centro Internacional de Restauración Neurológica, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba. Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain Treatment with L-DOPA is today the most efficacious, non-invasive therapy for Parkinson’s Disease. However, chronic treatment with L-DOPA induces in most of the patients the appearance of abnormal involuntary mov...

Lecture 5 – February 17 , 2016

This lecture is on dimensionality reduction, which aims at ‘squashing’ down the dimensionality while still preserving some geometric properties. The motivation behind this technique is that many types of data are high-dimensional, and it will be operationally much easier to manipulate these data in a lower dimension. For instance, the bag-of-words representation of documents, which treats every...

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Fellowships Grants and Awards February 2004

The complex biology of critical illness not only reflects the initial insult that brought the patient to the intensive care unit but also, and perhaps even more importantly, it reflects the consequences of the many clinical interventions initiated to support life during a time of lethal organ system insufficiency. The latter may amplify or modify the response to the former and are eminently ame...