Our aim was to develop evidence-based interpretation guidelines for the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G), a cancer-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) instrument, from a range of clinically relevant anchors, incorporating expert judgment about clinical significance. Three clinicians with many years' experience managing cancer patients and using HRQOL outcomes...

This paper presents a tool that automatically generates multidimensional schemas for data warehouses from OLTP entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs). Based on user’s input parameters, it generates star schemas, snowflake schemas, or a fact constellation schema by taking advantage of only structural information of input ERDs. Hence, SAMSTARplus can help users reduce efforts for designing data ware...

The surprising discovery of giant planets in inner orbits around solar-like stars has brought into question our understanding of the development and evolution of planetary systems, including our solar system. To make further progress, it is critical to detect and obtain data on the frequency and characteristics of Earth-class planets. The Kepler Mission is designed to be a quick, low-cost appro...

Spatial Data warehouses pose many challenging requirements with respect to the design of the data model due to the nature of analytical operations and the nature of the views to be maintained by the spatial warehouse. The first challenge is due to the multi-dimensional nature of each dimension itself. In a traditional data warehouse the various dimensions contributing to the warehouse data are ...

Several recent Information Extraction (IE) systems have been restricted to the identification facts which are described within a single sentence. It is not clear what effect this has on the difficulty of the extraction task or how the performance of systems which consider only single sentences should be compared with those which consider multiple sentences. This paper compares three IE evaluati...

Malouf R, Areosa Sastre A. Vitamin B12 for cognition. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2003;(3):CD004326. [PubMed abstract] 79. Malouf R, Grimley Evans J. Folic acid with or without vitamin B12 for the prevention and treatment of health elderly and demented people. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008 Oct 8;(4):CD004514. [PubMed abstract] 80. Lukaski HC. Vitamin and mineral status: effects on physical pe...

By H. J. Eysenck. (Penguin, 5s.) This is the third of Professor Eysenck's attempts to bring psychology to the masses but here he rides his hobby-horses almost to extinction. After one chapter in whict1 he describes his own laboratory and the techniques he uses, he goes on to describe his own concepts of Personality. This is followed by a comparison between Behaviour Therapy and Psychoanalysis i...