Medical diagnosis and therapy planning at modern intensive care units (ICUs) have been refined by the technical improvement of their equipment. However, the bulk of continuous data arising from complex monitoring systems in combination with discontinuously assessed numerical and qualitative data creates a rising information management problem at neonatal ICUs (NICUs). We developed methods for d...

Assembling financial instruments such as equities, bonds, options, and other derivatives into a portfolio requires a thorough understanding of how the portfolio will behave in response to changes of specific economic variables and parameters of the instruments. With more information about a more diverse set of instruments becoming available to traders, it is becoming important to limit the comp...

Quantitative modeling in biology can be difficult due to parameter value scarcity. An alternative is qualitative modeling since it requires few to no parameters. This article presents a qualitative modeling derived from boolean networks where fuzzy logic is used and where edges can be tuned. Fuzzy logic being continuous, its variables can be finely valued while remaining qualitative. To conside...

This paper addresses the methodology for achieving the user interface design reusability of a qualitative software system and effort minimization by applying the inference on the stored design documents. The pictorial design documents are stored in a special format in the form of keyword text [DGML tag based design]. The design document storage mechanism will expose the keywords per design stor...

The diffusion approximation of some Markov chains with Binomial-like transition probabilities is considered and their qualitative behavior is analyzed. The stationary distribution, attainability of boundary and estimation of parameters are investigated. Some examples are reported.

We present a method for DNA extraction from peripheral blood using sugar, commercial detergent, and sodium salt. Our method is simple, fast, and inexpensive; its qualitative parameters do not significantly differ from the standard salting-out procedure.

Qualitative reasoners have been hamstrung by the inability to analyze large models . This includes selfexplanatory simulators, which tightly integrate qualitative and numerical models to provide both precision and explanatory power . While they have important potential applications in training, instruction, and conceptual design, a critical step towards realizing this potential is the ability t...