OBJECTIVE In this study we used national data to determine changes in the prevalence of hospital admissions for medically complex children over a 15-year period. PATIENTS AND METHODS Data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a component of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, was analyzed in 3-year increments from 1991 to 2005 to determine national trends in rates of hospitalization ...

An experiment was conducted to determine the distribution of nitrogen-15 in tissues of laying hens receiving different levels of N-CCC in diets. Twenty brown laying hens were divided into four groups and randomly assigned into one of four dietary treatment groups consisting of 0, 5, 50 and 100 ppm N-CCC inclusion. The hens were individually fed with the N-CCC diets in battery cages for 11 days ...

Background Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is endemic in Latin America and affects 10 million people worldwide. Approximately 12,000 deaths attributable to Chagas disease occur annually due to Chagas disease cardiomyopathy (CCC), an inflammatory cardiomyopathy presenting with heart failure and arrythmia; 30% of infected subjects develop CCC years after infection. Gene...

C O M P U T E R 0 0 1 8 9 1 6 2 / 1 7 / $ 3 3 . 0 0 © 2 0 1 7 I E E E P U B L I S H E D B Y T H E I E E E C O M P U T E R S O C I E T Y D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 7 7 Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are orchestrations of computers, machines, and people working together to achieve goals using computation, communications, and control (CCC) technologies. Although the term CPS was coined only in 2006 by He...

An r-component connected coloring of a graph is a coloring of the vertices so that each color class induces a subgraph having at most r connected components. The concept has been well-studied for r = 1, in the case of trees, under the rubric of convex coloring , used in modeling perfect phylogenies. Several applications in bioinformatics of connected coloring problems on general graphs are disc...

In the past few years, there has been an increasing interest in developing project control systems. The primary purpose of such systems is to indicate whether the actual performance is consistent with the baseline and to produce a signal in the case of non-compliance. Recently, researchers have shown an increased interest in monitoring project’s performance indicators, by plotting them on the S...

In high-yields process monitoring, the Geometric distribution is particularly useful to control the cumulative counts of conforming (CCC) items. However, in some instances the number of defects on a nonconforming observation is also of important application and must be monitored. For the latter case, the use of the generalized Poisson distribution and hence simultaneously implementation of two ...