Radiosurgery is a non-invasive procedure that uses focused beams of radiation to destroy brain tumors. Treatment planning for ra-diosurgery involves determining a series of beam conngurations that will destroy the tumor without damaging healthy tissue in the brain, particularly critical structures. A new image-guided robotic radiosurgical system has been developed at Stanford University in a jo...

A b stract The Xerox Part-of-Speech Tagger (XPOST) claims to be practical. One aspect of practicality as defined here is reusability. Thus it is meant to be easy to port XPOST to a new language. To test this, XPOST was ported to Swedish. This port is described and evaluated. In previous work on part-of-speech tagging, a practical part-of-speech tagger was defined as one with the following set o...

The authors present the use of Wavelet Transform, using a quadratic spline function, and Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) to classify 8 heartbeat conditions. The process consists of four mains stages. The first part consists of preprocessing a nd f iltering selected ECG l ead II (D II) data re gisters f rom t he PhysioNet repository. The filtered signal is fed to a w avelet transform process ...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated differences in accuracy between the CONTOUR® NEXT EZ (EZ) blood glucose monitoring system (BGMS) and four other BGMSs [ACCU-CHEK® Aviva (ACAP), FreeStyle Freedom Lite® (FFL), ONE TOUCH® Ultra®2 (OTU2), and TRUEtrack® (TT)]. METHODS Up to three capillary blood samples (N = 393) were collected from 146 subjects with and without diabetes. One sample per subject wa...

A new suppressor of +1 frameshift mutations has been isolated in Salmonella typhimurium. This suppressor, sufJ, maps at minute 89 on the Salmonella genetic map between the argH and rpo(rif) loci, closely linked to the gene for the ochre suppressor tyrU(supM). The suppressor mutation is dominant to its wild-type allele, consistent with the suppressor phenotype being caused by an altered tRNA spe...

AIM The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between structural empowerment and patient safety culture among staff level Registered Nurses (RNs) within adult critical care units (ACCU). BACKGROUND There is literature to support the value of RNs' structurally empowered work environments and emerging literature towards patient safety culture; the link between empowerment and...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate how different parameters of short-term glycemic control would correlate with the perception of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D). SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 50 T1D patients aged 18 to 50 years were evaluated with the questionnaires Problem Areas in Diabetes (PAID) scale and Diabetes Quali...

Background: Anthropogenic activities release high concentrations of heavy metals into the aquatic ecosystems, which can be absorbed by the aquatic organisms. In this study, the accu-mulation of cadmium (Cd) and arsenic (As) was compared in liver, gill and muscle tissues of toothed carp (Aphanius sophiae) in fresh and salt water. Methods: A total of 175 fish samples were collected from the Sh...

Experimental analysis of running gear-soil interaction traditionally focuses on the measurement of forces and torques developed by the running gear. This type of measurement provides useful information about running gear performance but it does not allow for explicit investigation of soil failure behavior. This paper describes a methodology based on particle image velocimetry for analyzing soil...