INTRODUCTION This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on "Biosignal Interpretation: Advanced Methods for Studying Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems". OBJECTIVES Detect presence of sleep-related breathing disorders (SRBD) in epochs of 1 min by signal analysis of Holter ECG recordings. METHODS In 121 patients, 140 synchronized polysomnograms (PSGs) an...

The Risk Management Index, RMI, brings together a group of indicators that measure risk management performance and effectiveness. These indicators reflect the organizational, development, capacity and institutional actions taken to reduce vulnerability and losses, to prepare for crisis and to recover efficiently from disasters. This index was designed to assess risk management “performance”. It...

BACKGROUND Individuals with unrecognized myocardial infarctions (UMIs) detected with cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) constitute a recently defined group whose prognosis has not been fully evaluated. However, increasing evidence indicate that these individuals may be at considerable cardiovascular risk. The aim of the present study was to investigate the prognostic impact of CMR detected...

During early September 2014, the Arkansas Department of Health identified an increased number of tuberculosis (TB) cases among a unique population in a well-circumscribed geographical area in northwest Arkansas. The Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-239, amended in 2003 by Public Law 108-188) established the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) as an independent nation, a...

Java and distributed object models are important for building modern, scalable, interoperable applications. This paper is focused on the performance analysis, comparison and optimization of distributed object middleware for Java 2: RMI (Remote Method Invocation), CORBA IDL (Interface Definition Language) and RMI-IIOP (Remote Method Invocation on Internet Inter-ORB Protocol). The paper presents ...

In this article we have done a qualitative and quantitative comparison of common approaches used to develop distributed solutions in Java: RMI and Web services for regular unsecured communication, RMI-SSL and WS-Security for secure communication and authentication, and HTTP-to-port and HTTP-to-CGI/servlet tunneling for RMI communication through firewalls and proxies. We have done a functional c...

Infections of the bloodstream, central nervous system, peritoneum, joints, and other sterile areas are associated with high morbidity and sequelae risk. Timely initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy is crucial to improving patient prognosis. However, standard final identification and antimicrobial susceptibility tests (ASTs) are reported 16-48 h after a positive alert. For a rapid, effec...

REMOTE PROCEDURE CALL SYSTEMS have been around since Andrew Birrell and Greg Nelson first proposed them in 1984.1 During the intervening 15 years, numerous evolutionary improvements have occurred in the basic RPC system, leading to improved systems—such as NCS2—that offer programmers more functionality or greater simplicity. The Common Object Request Broker Architecture from the Object Manageme...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of demographic and clinical characteristics on mobility, disability, and activities of daily life of patients with stroke. METHODS This cross-sectional clinical study was performed in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine in Adana, Turkey, between February 2011 and December 2011. The study included ...

The Jini technology provides an infrastructure for spontaneous networking of devices based on Java-classes and interfaces. With the help of Jini, small devices with minimal resources should be able to join such infrastructures. Due to the fact that Jini is based upon RMI (Remote Method Invocation) and is therefore on top of RMI, it is impossible to Jini-enable these limited devices: the use of ...