BACKGROUND Although MIMIC-II, a public intensive care database, has been recognized as an invaluable resource for many medical researchers worldwide, becoming a proficient MIMIC-II researcher requires knowledge of SQL programming and an understanding of the MIMIC-II database schema. These are challenging requirements especially for health researchers and clinicians who may have limited computer...

SOFT (‘Second-Order Functions and Theorems’) is a tool to mimic second-order functions and theorems in the first-order logic of ACL2. Second-order functions are mimicked by first-order functions that reference explicitly designated uninterpreted functions that mimic function variables. First-order theorems over these second-order functions mimic second-order theorems universally quantified over...

A very general class of EDAs is defined, on which universal results on the rate of diversity loss can be derived. This EDA class, denoted SML-EDA, requires two restrictions: 1) in each generation, the new probability model is build using only data sampled from the current probability model; and 2) maximum likelihood is used to set model parameters. This class is very general; it includes simple...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a major health issue, affecting large numbers of patients worldwide. It is associated with an increase in complications and poor prognostics if diagnosis is delayed. Medical guidelines are routinely employed to classify different AKI stages, but guidance on the early detection of AKI risk is limited. In this paper, we present a Bayesian Networks (BN) proof of concep...

A thorough description of the evolving MIMIC Hardware Description Language (MHDL) is presented from the perspective of an analog modeler or designer. Analog simulation issues pertinent to MHDL description are discussed. This includes both transient and steady-state simulation.perspectives. Several modeling examples demonstrate the concepts and simulation issues related to these examples, as wel...

Interest in magnetic-tunnel junctions has prompted a re-examination of tunneling measurements through thin insulating films. In any study of metal-insulator-metal trilayers, one tries to eliminate the possibility of pinholes (small areas over which the thickness of the insulator goes to zero so that the upper and lower metals of the trilayer make direct contact). Recently, we have presented exp...

هدف: با توجه به کاستی‌های موجود، نظام سیاست‌گذاری سازمانی فرایندی سیستماتیک، هدفمند و منظم برای تولید داده‌های حاصل از عملکرد، پردازش آن‌ها اطلاعات تبدیل آن دانش سیاستی نیاز دارد تا نسبت کم کیف تحقق اهداف سیاست‌ها، آثار پیامدهای موفقیت یا ناکامی‌شان آگاهی داشته تصمیم‌گیری بهره گیرد. ازاین‌رو مسئله اصلی که محقق تلاش رفع می‌پردازد تبیین این موضوع است سیاست‌ها راهبردهای کلان چه پیامدها آثاری در پی...