The ability to assess the quality of a service (QoS) is important to the emerging cloud computing paradigm. When many cloud service providers exist offering many functionally identical services, the prospective users of these services will wish to use one that offers the best quality. Many techniques and tools have been proposed to assess QoS, and the ability to deal with uncertainty surroundin...

The identification of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and their networks is vitally important to systemically define and understand the roles of proteins in biological systems. In spite of development of numerous experimental systems to detect PPIs and diverse research on assessment of the quality of the obtained data, a consensus--highly reliable, almost complete--interactome of Saccharomy...

Increasing integration services can improve opportunistic development by presenting monolith applications as opportunities for mashups. O pportunities are available resources that yield desired results. Their suitability depends on who seizes the opportunity and the context for its use. Opportunistic development relies on the availability of reusable software components to produce hybrid applic...

This work presents a novel approach for combining multiple Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) to a self-learning fall risk assessment tool. This tool is used by a new type of home-visiting nurses to track the fall risk of their patients. In order to provide personalized healthcare for elderly people, we combine multiple EPRs using an agent-based architecture, where each patient is represented by...

ID: 8857 Title: Self-assessment as a strategy to improve performance of computer-aided diagnosis in breast ultrasound Purpose: The aim of this work was to develop and apply a computerized auto-assessment method in which a computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) system itself provides a level of confidence for its output for each radiologist-identified lesion. Methods and Material: We investigated the p...

Objective Cognitive frailty (CF) refers to the co-occurrence of physical frailty (PF) and cognitive impairment in persons without dementia. We aimed to explore the prevalence and associated factors of CF in China. Method Data were obtained from the China Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Study. A total of 5,708 community-dwelling older adults without dementia were included. CF was assessed u...

Reuse of software components can improve software quality and productivity significantly. This paper mainly concentrates on our approach to reuse assessment, which is a process of identifying and assessing the characteristics of a reusable component based on a set of well-defined reuse guidelines. This paper also proposes a scheme for measuring reuse potential. These techniques have been succes...

BACKGROUND Curriculum evaluation is key to continuous assurance of quality of education. OBJECTIVES To assess the teachers' perceptions on how well student teaching and learning activities were conducted at an institution that had practiced PBL for five years. METHODS A cross sectional descriptive study. 150 teachers from 23 departments at the College of Health Sciences participated in the ...

Because of its vulnerability to errors and, hence, unauthorised access, assignment of access rights is a critically important aspect of RBAC. Despite major advances in addressing this clearly using formal models, there is still a need for a more robust formulation, especially incorporating strict guidelines on assignment of access rights and how to perform such tasks as delegation of access rig...

In order to optimize the usage of testing efforts and to assess risks of softwarebased systems, risk-based testing uses risk (re-)assessments to steer all phases in a test process. Several risk-based testing approaches have been proposed in academia and/or applied in industry, so that the determination of principal concepts and methods in risk-based testing is needed to enable a comparison of t...