The accurate prediction of wind energy production is crucial for an affordable and reliable power supply to consumers. Prediction models are used as decision-aid tools electric grid operators dynamically balance the provided by a pool diverse sources in mix. However, different uncertainty affect predictions, providing decision-makers with non-accurate possibly misleading information operation. ...

aim and background:   knee osteoarthritis (oa) is a prevalent and disabling disease. periarticular corticosteroid injection has been traditionally used for the pain control in these patients. recently low power laser has been introduced as a therapeutic option. this study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of low power laser added to periarticular steroid injection for long-term treatment o...

This paper presents a supervising learning approach using Multilayer Feed Forward Neural Network(MFFN) and Radial Basis Fuction Neural Network(RBFN) to deal with fast and accurate static security assessment (SSA) and contingency analysis of a large electric power systems. The degree of severity of contingencies is measured by two scalar performance indices (PIs): Voltage-reactive power performa...

Pharmaceutical care activities at hospital admission have a significant impact on patient safety. The objective of this study was to identify predictive factors for clinically significant pharmacist interventions (PIs) performed during medication reconciliation and medication review at patient hospital admission.A 4-week prospective study was conducted in 4 medicine wards. At hospital admission...

OBJECTIVE To better characterize parotid masses incidentally identified on imaging. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Academic medical center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Medical records were reviewed for 771 patients who underwent parotidectomy at the University of Wisconsin from 1994 to 2013. Patients were stratified into 2 groups: those with tumors identified solely on imagi...

Introduction: Opiates cause dependency via affect on central nervous system. Locus coeruleus nucleus is a main group of noradrenergic neurons in the brain that plays an important role in the expression of opioid withdrawal signs. During opioid withdrawal, brain waves change in addition to physical and behavioral signs. In this study, we examined the effects of locus coeruleus electrical sti...

BACKGROUND Clinical pharmacy activities in a pediatric inpatient department help to improve the management of patients clinically and economically. OBJECTIVE To assess the relevance of pharmaceutical interventions (PIs) in a pediatric inpatient department in Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire). MATERIALS AND METHODS We carried out a cross-sectional, descriptive study from February to September 2014. Th...

High assurance systems must guarantee safety, security, fault tolerance and survivability objectives; it is therefore essential that such objectives be made explicit, refined, specified precisely and completely in application-specific terms, interrelated and analyzed thoroughly. The paper argues that goals are an essential abstraction for eliciting, elaborating, modeling, specifying, analyzing,...