patients and methods a questionnaire was developed by a departmental checklist focus group, which aimed to identify the perception of health care checklists in general as well as specific checklists for routine and crisis situations in anesthesia. furthermore participants were asked regarding their perception of performing routine anesthesia and managing crisis situations without any cognitive ...

Radiation hybrid (RH) mapping is a somatic cell technique that is used for ordering markers along a chromosome and estimating physical distances between them. It nicely complements the genetic mapping technique, allowing for finer resolution. Like genetic mapping, RH mapping consists in finding a marker ordering that maximizes a given criteria. Several software packages have been recently propo...

The language features and formal deenitions of the three most popular process algebras, csp, ccs and lotos, are introduced and compared.

Two approaches, resource-oriented and constraint-oriented, for structuring telephone systems specifications, are presented. Both approaches express behaviour by collections of communicating processes, using the language LOTOS. However, requirements are distributed differently among processes. Examples are taken from specifications of telephone systems, first basic, and then with features. The f...

While segments are the smallest perceivable unit of speech, they consist of smaller units called features. In speech production, feature errors can be difficult to distinguish from segment errors. In the production ‘she sells sheashells...’ it is difficult to tell if the erroneous ‘sh’ is a slip of the feature for place (alveolar ‘s’ becoming postalveolar ‘sh’), or a slip of the entire segment ...

An Analysis of the Total Insensitivity of Input Shaping Designs Lucy Y. Pao Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309{0425 Abstract In the modeling of exible structures, there is generally uncertainty in both the frequencies and damping constants, and it is thus important that the control methods for such systems be robust to these uncertainti...

Word reordering is a difficult task for decoders when the languages involved have a significant difference in syntax. Phrase-based statistical machine translation (PBSMT), preferred in commercial settings due to its maturity, is particularly prone to errors in long range reordering. Source sentence pre-ordering, as a pre-processing step before PBSMT, proved to be an efficient solution that can ...

Our health system does not yet have physician order entry to facilitate synchronous pharmacy decision support. To fill a needed gap to screen drug orders, we leveraged an enterprise clinical data repository to develop and implement two asynchronous, rule-based expert systems for screening drug dosage regimens and drug-drug interactions (DoseChecker and PharmADE, respectively). Originally deploy...

Post-ordering of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) output to correct word order errors could be a promising area of research to overcome structural divergence between language pairs. This is especially true when it is difficult to incorporate rich linguistic features into the baseline decoder. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for generating oracle reorderings of MT output. We use the ...