to identify mental disorders and their prevalence in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (rp).this descriptive study was carried out between january 2009 and january 2010 on 417 patients with rp, who were members of iran rp center. the necessary data were collected using questionnaires consisting two parts: the background characteristics and questions assessing the mental health and screening pe...

BACKGROUND Increasing indications for oral anticoagulation has led to pressure on general practices to undertake therapeutic monitoring. Computerized decision support (DSS) has been shown to be effective in hospitals for improving clinical management. Its usefulness in primary care has previously not been investigated. AIM To test the effectiveness of using DSS for oral anticoagulation monito...

PURPOSE To develop the dose volume histogram (DVH) management software which guides the evaluation of radiotherapy (RT) plan of a new case according to the biological consequences of the DVHs from the previously treated patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We determined the radiation pneumonitis (RP) as an biological response parameter in order to develop DVH management software. We retrospectivel...

Distributed Resource Management Systems (D-RMS) control the usage of hard resources, such as CPU cycles, memory, disk space and network bandwidth, in high-performance parallel computing systems. Users request resources by submitting jobs, which could be sequential or parallel. The goal of a D-RMS is to achieve the best utilization of resources and to maximize system throughput by orchestrating ...

Objective: Clinical studies evaluating effectiveness and safety of cryosurgery (CS) for clinically localized prostate cancer (PCa) have reported conflicting results. We aim to obtain systematic and comprehensive evidence regarding the potential benefits and safety of CS compared with those of radiotherapy (RT) and radical prostatectomy (RP), respectively. Methods: All controlled trials comparin...

To illustrate the different kinetics of cellular self-repair mechanism under external perturbations from outer environment, a mathematical model of DNA damage repair process is proposed by using the Kinetic Theory of Active Particles (KTAP) framework. The profile of cellular self-repair process is represented by two sub-populations, each of which is made up of the active particles with differen...

This paper reports and discusses the results of a survey conducted among experts working in the field of decision support systems (DSS) in Australian agriculture. It also reviews the literature on DSS in the light of these experts’ responses. The findings from this survey have consolidated our understanding of the current state of DSS in Australian agriculture. The uptake of DSS by farmers has ...

This paper presents the on-going research performed in order to migrate from process automation to process management support in the context of media production and more specifically 3D cinematographic immersive and interactive production. The endeavour has been addressed on the basis of a holistic approach to software engineering applied to media production modelling to ensure design correctne...

The integration of a Data Warehouse and a Decision Support System (DSS) can provide construction managers with sufficient information for decision making without interrupting daily work of an On-Line Transaction Processing system. In this paper, the concepts of the data warehouse, On-Line Analysis Processing and DSS are first reviewed. The method of creating a data warehouse is then shown, chan...