The paper presents a cursory examination of clustering, fo-cusing on a rarely explored field of hierarchy of clusters. Based on this, a short discussion of clustering quality measures is presented and the F-score measure is examined more deeply. As there are no attempts to assess the quality for hierarchies of clusters, three variants of the F-Score based index are presented: classic, hierarchi...

OBJECTIVES To design and validate an objective clinical scoring system to identify unwell neonates, by using routinely collected bedside observations. METHODS A Neonatal Trigger Score (NTS) was designed by using local expert consensus and incorporated into a new observation chart. All neonates >35 weeks' gestation admitted to the NICU over an 18-month period, and an age-matched "well" cohort,...

Building Energy Asset Score (Asset Score), developed by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is a tool to help building owners and managers assess the efficiency of a building’s energy-related systems and encourage investment in cost-effective improvements. The Asset Score uses an EnergyPlus model to provide a quick assessment of building ene...

Background: The purpose of this study was to identify differences and similarities in teachers' and students’ viewpoints about the factors affecting this evaluation.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 70 teachers and 148 students (34.86 % females and 65.13 males) of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences were selected by convenience sampling. Data were...

introduction: evaluation of human resources requires proper indicators for its performance measurement. in fact, compiling indexes consider as the basic source of information evaluation. the aim of this study was to compiling the basic human resources indicators in health system to provide enough information to evaluate human resource management in this sector. this work developed by designing ...

In a multimodal biometric system, the effective fusion method is necessary for combining information from various single modality systems. In this paper the performance of sum rule-based score level fusion and support vector machines (SVM)-based score level fusion are examined. Three biometric characteristics are considered in this study: fingerprint, face, and finger vein. We also proposed a n...

Methods This is an observational prospective cohort study. Population is composed of adults hospitalized in ICU of the Service of Burns near University Hospital Center, Tirana, Albania for 5 years(2010-2015).Patients are grouped according glucose values on three categories: Patients with Euglycemia ( 80-120 mg/dL), Moderate Hyperglycemia (121-180 mg/dL) and Critical Hyperglycemia (> 180 mg/dL )...

BACKGROUND Appendicitis being the commonest surgical emergency is primarily diagnosed clinically but posses diagnostic difficulty usually, especially to junior surgeons, demanding the need for tool/scoring system that can be easily applicable, accurate & reproducible in the diagnosis of appendicitis, with low negative Appendicectomy rate. This study is designed to assess one such scoring system...