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Inpatients’ opinions on a hospital in Portugal

BACKGROUND Little is known about the relationship between the opinions of inpatients and the degree to which hospitals are improving in performance over time. The aim of this study was to determine the personal assessment level of inpatients or their representatives regarding aspects of health care in an internal medicine ward. METHODS We carried out a questionnaire in September 2011 with 284...

"Mehrzweckwaffe" Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On (SSO) erhöht die Sicherheit und spart Geld. Außerdem erreicht Single Sign-On beim Endbenutzer eine sehr hohe Akzeptanz, da, im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Security-Lösungen, der Benutzer nicht eingeschränkt wird, sondern zusätzlichen Komfort erhält: Lästige Aktivitäten, wie häufige Passworteingabe und –wechsel werden ihm abgenommen. Das Starten und Einloggen in eine Applikation e...

On nonnegative sign equivalent and sign similar factorizations of matrices

Natural Selection: Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

Natural selection is an important factor influencing variation in the human genome, but most genetic studies of natural selection have focused on variants with unknown phenotypic associations. This trend is changing. New studies are rapidly revealing the effects of natural selection on genetic variants of known or likely functional importance.

Persian sign language detection based on normalized depth image information

There are many reports of using the Kinect to detect hand and finger gestures after release of device by Microsoft. The depth information is mostly used to separate the hand image in the two-dimension of RGB domain. This paper proposes a method in which the depth information plays a more dominant role. Using a threshold in depth space first the hand template is extracted. Then in 3D domain the ...