BACKGROUND Efforts to improve quality of care for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are a national priority. To date, there have been few studies that have prospectively evaluated hospital quality improvement (QI) interventions. METHODS AND RESULTS Using hospitals in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) ACTION Registry-GWTG, a cluster randomized trial of the effectiv...

This paper describes the Advanced Forensic Format (AFF), which is designed as an alternative to current proprietary disk image formats. AFF offers two significant benefits. First, it is more flexible because it allows extensive metadata to be stored with images. Second, AFF images consume less disk space than images in other formats (e.g., EnCase images). This paper also describes the Advanced ...

We study the existential closures of several propositional languages L considered recently as target languages for knowledge compilation (KC), namely the incomplete fragments KROM-C, HORN-C, K/H-C, renH-C, AFF, and the corresponding disjunction closures KROM-C[∨], HORN-C[∨], K/H-C[∨], renH-C[∨], and AFF[∨]. We analyze the queries, transformations, expressiveness and succinctness of the resultin...

I . ABSTRACT JPL is developing novel RF tracking sensors for both of NASA’s New Millennium Program constellation missions, ST-3LStarLight and ST-5. ST-3/StarLight9 the Separated Spacecraft Inlerferometer, is a two-satellite formation in heliocentric orbit designed to demonstrate various technologies required for space interferometry. Scheduled for a 2006 launch. ST-3 will fly JPL’s Autonomous F...

In order to evaluate the performance of feedback fuzzy logic control of inspired oxygen and isoflurane concentrations, we studied 30 patients undergoing discectomy for lumbar (n = 26) or cervical (n = 4) disc herniation. Patients were allocated random to one of two groups: a standard group (n = 15) with low flow anaesthesia (1.2-1.3 litre min-1) and manual control of gas concentrations; and a f...

Cancer is the leading life-threatening disease for people in today’s world. Although cancer formation is different for each type of cancer, it has been determined by studies and research that stress also triggers cancer types. Early precaution is very important for people who have not fallen ill yet with a disease like cancer that has a high mortality rate and expensive treatment. With this stu...