Reducing Overtriage Without Compromising Outcomes in Trauma Patients

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture without compromising food security?

(1) IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, (2) INRA, Paris, France, (3) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, (4) Gund Institute, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA, (5) University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine, (6) CSIRO, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, St Lucia, Australia, (7) Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of A...

How long can patients with renal cell carcinoma wait for surgery without compromising pathological outcomes?

INTRODUCTION Surgical wait times have been shown to be of significance in other malignancies, but limited studies exist in renal cell cancer (RCC). We analyzed surgical waiting time for RCC patients to see if there was an adverse impact on pathological characteristics. METHODS Our centre triages RCC patients on the basis of perceived tumour risk. The waiting time for surgery is adjusted stage...

Efficient Logging without Compromising Testability

Funhaler spacer: improving adherence without compromising delivery.

A novel asthma spacer device, the "Funhaler", incorporates incentive toys which are isolated from the main inspiratory circuit by a valve. Here we show that its use does not compromise drug delivery. Improved adherence combined with satisfactory delivery characteristics suggest that the Funhaler may be useful for management of young asthmatics.

Concurrent Warehouse Maintenance Without Compromising Session Consistency

To achieve acceptable query response times in data warehouse environments, the data have to be pre-aggregated according to the need of the applications and stored redundantly. These materialized views must be kept up to date, to assure their usability. In this paper we present an algorithm which improves the maintenance of materialized views in two ways. In the first place, the maintenance proc...