General Discussion: Session I

Discussion: Session I

Background: Bacterial meningitis remains a source of substantial morbidity and mortality in childhood. During the last decades gradual changes have been observed in the epidemiology of bacterial meningitis, related to the introduction of new polysaccharide and conjugate vaccines. The study presents an overview of the epidemiological patterns of acute bacterial meningitis in a tertiary children ...

Session 6: ATIS Site Reports and General Discussion

Many of the evening session papers served to describe local implementations of ATIS domain systems and to provide local "glass-box" diagnostic evaluations to complement the NIST "black box" scoring. In some cases, these had the appearance of "nit-picking". However, since our collective intent was to develop and implement an evaluation procedure, the criticisms were generally constructive, and e...

Discussion session: biomarker trials

Various speakers In a combined presentation and discussion session, representatives from academia and industry discuss the role of Biomarker trial design and implementation , to improve health by improving trials. which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver

Discussion: Session IV

Session III Discussion Notes

This paper presents a preliminary investigation of a new interesting method to build easy to use and representative workloads to evaluate file-systems. The basic principle is to instrument a file-system, with the aid of domain knowledge, to breakdown workloads into micro-functions; then a subset of micro-functions are selected as predictors of a particular type of workload function; and finally...