Background: Hospitals must improve patient flow to achieve better efficiency and improve patients’ outcomes. Recent advancements in real time monitoring have provided immediate feedback for clinicians to address any bottlenecks. However, root causes of delays remain embedded in the details of clinicians’ activities. This work presents an observational study of a clinical pathway within a heart ...

Serge Hercberg ([email protected]) Katia Castetbon ([email protected]) Sebastien Czernichow ([email protected]) Aurelie Malon ([email protected]) Caroline Mejean ([email protected]) Emmanuelle Kesse ([email protected]) Mathilde Touvier ([email protected]) Pilar Galan (p.galan@...

In the current multi-scale LBP (MS-LBP) on texture and material classification, each scale is encoded into histograms individually. This strategy ignores the correlation between different scales, and loses a lot of discriminative information. In this paper , we propose a novel and effective multi-scale joint encoding of local binary patterns (MSJLBP) for texture and material classification. In ...

This study focused on the association between dietary patterns and socio-demographic and lifestyle factors. A population-based cross-sectional study was performed in 1,026 adult women from Southern Brazil. Dietary patterns were identified using principal components analysis. In the multivariable analysis, a Poisson regression model was used to estimate the prevalence ratio and 95%CI. Wealthier ...

Research Summary Although researchers began to assemble open-source terrorism event databases in the late 1960s, until recently most of these databases excluded domestic attacks. This exclusion is particularly misleading for the United States because, although the United States is often perceived to be the central target of transnational terrorism, the domestic attacks of foreign groups targeti...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present paper is to assess the relationship between food insecurity and food consumption patterns, anthropometric measures and serum micronutrient levels in rural Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. DESIGN A population-based cross-sectional study was carried out between March and May of 2005. SETTING Rural Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. SUBJECTS Analysis was restricted to 1014 adu...

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We present a method for estimating transmission matrices that describe the mixing and the probability of infection between age groups. Transmission matrices can be used to estimate age-dependent forces of infection in age-structured, compartmental models for the study of infectious diseases. We have analyzed the social network generated by bipartite graphs for the synthetic city of Portland and...

background there has been no data on population based dietary patterns during the ramadan fasting month. objectives the purpose of this study was to detect ramadan major dietary patterns among those who fast in tehran. materials and methods this cross-sectional study included 600 subjects, aged 18-65 with body mass index (bmi) of 18.5-40, who had decided to fast during ramadan. anthropometric m...

learning is tedious and momentary when clinical education is uniform. one of the aspects that affect the structure and qualitative texture of clinical education are utilization of clinical education patterns. because nursing students must learn about problem solving skills, some thought provoking strategies for problem solving is needed. many studies showed that clinical education patterns are ...