Clinical examination revealed an alert child with a tinge of jaundice. An erythematous rash was noted over the anterior abdominal wall. Multiple firm, mobile, discrete and non-tender lymph nodes, about 1 cm in diameter, were palpable in the cervical and inguinal regions. The throat was normal. The liver was enlarged 4 cm below the right costal margin in the mid-clavicular line and was soft and ...

Statistical information proves that the incidence ofcancer mortality is on the increase, and the possibility of any successful cure is essentially related to early diagnosis. In the fight against cancer, the general practitioner finds himself in the front line. He must regard himself as a person responsible for its early diagnosis or for directing the patient on the paths of its recognition. He...

OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate an electronic dashboard of hospital-wide electronic health record medication alerts for an alert fatigue reduction quality improvement project. METHODS We used visual analytics software to develop the dashboard. We collaborated with the hospital-wide Clinical Decision Support committee to perform three interventions successively deactivating clinically irrele...

Improving quality and safety across an entire healthcare system in multiple clinical areas within a short time frame is challenging. We describe our experience with improving inpatient quality and safety at Kaiser Permanente Northern California. The foundations of performance improvement are a "four-wheel drive" approach and a comprehensive driver diagram linking improvement goals to focal area...

A 39 yr old man presented with a spontaneous pneumothorax. On initial pleural drainage 120 ml of haemorrhagic fluid were collected. Twenty four hours, after re-expansion of the lung, shock developed and 1,200 ml of haemorrhagic fluid were spontaneously collected. The diagnosis haemopneumothorax was considered and at operation a bleeding vessel, which originated from the parietal pleura, was loc...

To examine the role of primary visual cortex in visuospatial integration, we studied the spatial arrangement of contextual interactions in the response properties of neurons in primary visual cortex of alert monkeys and in human perception. We found a spatial segregation of opposing contextual interactions. At the level of cortical neurons, excitatory interactions were located along the ends of...

CUI, YUN. A Toolkit for Intrusion Alerts Correlation Based on Prerequisites and Consequences of Attacks. (Under the direction of Dr. Peng Ning.) Intrusion Detection has been studied for about twenty years. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are usually considered the second line of defense to protect against malicious activities along with the prevention-based security mechanisms such as authen...

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The U.S. Geological Survey’s Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) Database has tracked introductions of freshwater aquatic organisms in the United States for the past four decades. A website provides access to occurrence reports, distribution maps, and fact sheets for more than 1,000 species. The site also includes an on-line reporting system and an alert system for new occurrences. We provide a...