This article presents a substance abuse treatment method that acknowledges and accommodates the personal needs that are being addressed by substance. This method, Utilization Sobriety, bypasses perceived resistances and employs idiosyncratic psychobiological learning to achieve a body-mind gestalt that is complementary to the client's sobriety. It develops a safe framework for addressing any su...

World Health Organization estimates of health care expenditure reveal a global trend of increasing costs, and health care systems need to become more efficient at treating patients to slow this trend. Incentives are in place to develop information-based health care systems, and I claim that using machine learning tools in medicine will lead to improvements in patient care. My work demonstrates ...

We study the problem of estimating the continuous response over time of interventions from observational time series—a retrospective dataset where the policy by which the data are generated are unknown to the learner. We are motivated by applications where response varies by individuals and therefore, estimating responses at the individual-level are valuable for personalizing decisionmaking. We...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of the individualized rehabilitation programs on the recovery of swallowing during acute stroke. METHODS A total of 88 stroke patients with dysphagia (within 2 weeks of acute stroke) were enrolled and classified into the experimental and control groups (n=44). The control group was treated with conventional rehabilitation program, while a multidisciplinary reh...

By researching the factors related to exposure indoor and outdoor allergens, such seasons, climate changes particulate matter, allergists can screen sensitization profile of individuals according their exposures conduct preventive treatment individualized immunotherapy.