OBJECTIVES Sepsis is one of the most common reasons of increased mortality and morbidity in the intensive care unit. The changes in CRP levels and hemogram parameters and their combinations may help to distinguish sepsis from non-sepsis SIRS. The aim of this study is to investigate the CRP and hemogram parameters as an indicator of sepsis. METHODS A total of 2777 patients admitted to the ICU ...

BACKGROUND: In response to the rising rate of treatment admissions related to illicit use of amphetamines (eg, methamphetamine), we examined the prevalence of amphetamine use among treatment-seeking, opioid-dependent adults, explored whether amphetamine users were as likely as nonamphetamine users to enroll in opioid-dependence treatment trials, and determined whether amphetamine users manifest...

Dated records of ice-cap growth from Arctic Canada recently suggested that a succession of strong volcanic eruptions forced an abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age between A.D. 1275 and 1300 [Miller GH, et al. (2012) Geophys Res Lett 39(2):L02708, 10.1029/2011GL050168]. Although this idea is supported by simulation experiments with general circulation models, additional support from field data ar...

Status updates on social networking sites are prolific. Literature in psychology suggests communicating personal status to oneself, and within a group, has benefits. We present different input (capture) and output (representations) of multi-dimensional wellbeing statuses, discuss quantitative and qualitative findings of an evaluation of the interfaces, and propose a course of work for future st...

Adaboost is a machine learning algorithm that builds a series of small decision trees, adapting each tree to predict difficult cases missed by the previous trees and combining all trees into a single model. We will discuss the AdaBoost methodology and introduce the extension called Real AdaBoost. Real AdaBoost comes from a strong academic pedigree: its authors are pioneers of machine learning a...

The theory of scale relativity suggests that, at very large time scales, classical laws should be replaced by a non-deterministic, quantum-like description. The theory gives up individual, localized trajectories, but it yields the probability density of families of virtual trajectories, as deduced from a generalized Schr6dinger equation. In this paper, we compare the system of three planets rec...