Radiographic selection criteria: new guidelines, old challenges

Old Europe, new challenges

Purpose – The paper aims to query the value of strategies implemented, notably in France, and to demonstrate the largely ignored link between demographics and economics. Design/methodology/approach – The paper achieves its objective by comparing statistics of European Union (EU) members and competitors to reveal that traditional views on economics and social policy may no longer apply. Findings...

NEW CRITERIA FOR RULE SELECTION IN FUZZY LEARNING CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS

Designing an effective criterion for selecting the best rule is a major problem in theprocess of implementing Fuzzy Learning Classifier (FLC) systems. Conventionally confidenceand support or combined measures of these are used as criteria for fuzzy rule evaluation. In thispaper new entities namely precision and recall from the field of Information Retrieval (IR)systems is adapted as alternative...

Mix Design Selection For Old and New Generation of SuprePlasticizers

Determination the optimal mix design plays an important role in order to gain the maximum characteristic strength. This research was conducted as a case study for Manjil tunnel project located in Qazvin-Rasht highway. For this purpose, 18 concrete mix designs were prepared at the study phase of the project with specifications such as conventional water-to-cement ratios of 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6, the ...

New Challenges and Old Problems

Radiographic criteria in ARDS.

The article by Rubenfeld et al in a recent issue of CHEST (November 1999)1 highlighted a key problem when applying clinical parameters to the definition of a syndrome. In the daily care of an ARDS patient, physicians of various specialties and other health-care personnel are often the first individuals reviewing the chest x-ray (CXR). However, it is the interpretation from the radiology departm...