RBMS member survey results

The Linguistic Data Consortium Member Survey: Purpose, Execution and Results

Heterogeneous Transfer Learning with RBMs

A common approach in machine learning is to use a large amount of labeled data to train a model. Usually this model can then only be used to classify data in the same feature space. However, labeled data is often expensive to obtain. A number of strategies have been developed by the machine learning community in recent years to address this problem, including: semi-supervised learning, domain a...

Prophylaxis of postoperative endophthalmitis after cataract surgery: results of the 2007 ASCRS member survey.

An online survey of members of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery indicated a strong preference for preoperative and postoperative topical antibiotic prophylaxis, with most surgeons favoring latest generation topical fluoroquinolones. A significant percentage of surgeons reported being concerned about the risks of homemade intracameral antibiotic preparations, and there was...

Clinical experience with intraoperative floppy-iris syndrome. Results of the 2008 ASCRS member survey.

According to an online survey, most members of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery believe that tamsulosin makes cataract surgery more difficult (95%) and increases the risks of surgery (77%). Commonly reported complications of intraoperative floppy-iris syndrome (IFIS) were significant iris trauma and posterior capsule rupture, with 52% and 23% of respondents, respectively,...

Antibiotic prophylaxis of postoperative endophthalmitis after cataract surgery: Results of the 2014 ASCRS member survey.

A 2014 online survey of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery members indicated increasing use of intracameral antibiotic injection prophylaxis compared with a comparable survey from 2007. Forty-seven percent of respondents already used or planned to adopt this measure. One half of all surgeons not using intracameral prophylaxis expressed concern about the risks of noncommerci...