OBJECTIVE Ventilator-associated event surveillance was introduced in the National Healthcare Safety Network in 2013, replacing surveillance for ventilator-associated pneumonia in adult inpatient locations. We determined incidence rates and characteristics of ventilator-associated events reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS We analyzed data reported...

Abstract. Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands were hit by extreme precipitation flooding in July 2021. This brief communication provides an overview of impacts to large-scale critical infrastructure systems how recovery has progressed. The results show that Germany particularly affected, with many assets severely damaged or completely destroyed. Impacts range from destroyed bridges sewage syst...

Many studies have found that the perceived authenticity of cultural and religious events affects event satisfaction and loyalty. Little is currently known about how perceived authenticity is affected by the facilities, such as food and the availability of information, which are independent determinants of satisfaction and loyalty. This study aims to examine the antecedents of event loyalty. Que...

Previous work involving Born-regulated gravity theories in two dimensions is extended to four dimensions. The action we consider has two dimensionful parameters. Black hole solutions are studied for typical values of these parameters. For masses above a critical value determined in terms of these parameters, the event horizon persists. For masses below this critical value, the event horizon dis...

Event processing will play an increasingly important role in constructing distributed applications that can immediately react to critical events. In this paper we describe the CEDR language for expressing complex event queries that filter and correlate events to match specific patterns, and transform the relevant events into new composite events for the use of monitoring applications. Streambas...

The PHENIX experiment has conducted searches for the QCD critical point with measurements of multiplicity fluctuations, transverse momentum fluctuations, event-by-event kaon-to-pion ratios, elliptic flow, and correlations. Measurements have been made in several collision systems as a function of centrality and transverse momentum. The results do not show significant evidence of critical behavio...

This paper outlines the initial motivations and implementation scope supporting a dynamic data driven application system for material and structural health monitoring as well as critical event prediction. The dynamic data driven paradigm is exploited to promote application advances, application measurement systems and methods, mathematical and statistical algorithms and finally systems software...