Shared decision making (SDM), a collaborative process whereby patients and professionals make health care decisions together, is a cornerstone of ethical patient care. The patient-clinician communication necessary to achieve SDM depends on many factors, not the least of which is a shared language (sometimes with the aid of a medical interpreter). However, even when a patient and clinician are s...

Sparse distributed memory is an auto associative memory system that stores high dimensional Boolean vectors. Here we present an extension of the original SDM, the Integer SDM that uses modular arithmetic integer vectors rather than binary vectors. This extension preserves many of the desirable properties of the original SDM: auto associativity, content addressability, distributed storage, and r...

Abstract — This paper presents Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) as a technology to satisfy the user demand for ever higher bit rates in wireless Local area network technology. SDM uses multiple transmit and receive antennas to increase bit rate proportionally, without reducing range, delay spread tolerance and spectrum occupancy. The optimal SDM receiver is the maximum likelihood decoder, whic...

MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) transmission is a promising technology to improve the frequency usage efficiency in mobile radio communications. In this letter, MIMO transmission with eigenbeam space division multiplexing (E-SDM) is focused on and the site-dependent beamforming characteristics is examined to know the transmission characteristics. Site-dependent radiowave direction of arri...

The bit error rate (BER) of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system using Binary Phase Shift Modulation (BPSK) on Rayleigh fading channels is analyzed. Minimum Mean Squared Error, Zero Forcing and Zero Forcing with Successive Interference Cancellation algorithms are used. These Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) algorithms are programmed in MATLAB and some simulations are performed to obtai...

This work presents a low power cascaded sigma-delta modulator (SDM) for W-CDMA and GSM dual bandwidth applications. This proposed SDM has the characteristics of wide bandwidth for W-CDMA applications and has low noise floor in the lower frequency band for GSM applications. Low-distortion swing-suppressing SDM and interpolative SDM cascaded units are used in this modulator. The lowdistortion tec...

The launch of the NIA-AA research criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis illustrates the large advances that have been made in the field of AD diagnosis. These new possibilities however also introduce new dilemmas into the consulting room, and this provides room for shared decision making (SDM). SDM refers to clinicians and patients (and/or their caregivers) working together to decide ...

Most of current asynchronous on-chip routers use the virtual channel flow control method which compromises throughput and latency. Instead of using virtual channels, an asynchronous spatial division multiplexing (SDM) router has been proposed recently. The major design overhead of an SDM router is the enlarged central switch which increases proportionally to the number of virtual circuits. Clos...

This article elucidates the nursing consultation techniques in shared decision making (SDM) for patients with cancer and their family members. Descriptive data (207 records) from the nurse-led SDM consultation facility and content analysis were used to extract the nursing consultation techniques. In addition, the order in which these techniques were used to structure the SDM process for patient...