Background Evidence suggests that patients who are involuntarily detained because of risk to themselves or others may not recognise after discharge either that they posed a risk or that they suffered from mental disorder [1]. Ward staff may avoid discussing risk with patients who may disagree with their own perceptions of risk [2]. However, discharge planning requires patient and ward nurse to ...

Variations in surface water extent and storage are poorly characterized from regional to global scales. In this study, a multi-satellite approach is proposed to estimate the water stored in the floodplains of the Orinoco Basin at a monthly time-scale using remotely-sensed observations of surface water from the Global Inundation Extent Multi-Satellite (GIEMS) and stages from Envisat radar altime...

We present an automatic mortality prediction scheme based on the unstructured textual content of clinical notes. Proposing a convolutional document embedding approach, our empirical investigation using the MIMIC-III intensive care database shows significant performance gains compared to previously employed methods such as latent topic distributions or generic doc2vec embeddings. These improveme...

This paper is concerned with automatic classification of texts in a medical domain. The process consists in classifying reports of medical discharges into classes defined by the CIE-9-MC codes. We will assign CIE-9-MC codes to reports using either a knn model or support vector machines. One of the added values of this work is the construction of the collection using the discharge reports of a m...

The control of black fly larvae using 2 aqueous suspension formulations of Bocillus thuringiensis,serotlpe H-lG;; ";;i;atei in 6 trials o"'.-"it and Iarge'sized-streams in New Brunswick' Applications equivatent o 2; ;;; iv;;"bac' 12AS) ";lt;;p; (Victobac--24AS) over a 1-min period resulted in 100% .o.,rrot or'ttlit fi; i;;;;p;s L,n a;"'.ir.am of the application point' over the 6 trials, eflecti...

The Menelas project aimed to produce a normalized conceptual representation from natural language patient discharge summaries. Because of the complex and detailed nature of conceptual representations, evaluating the quality of output of such a system is difficult. We present the method designed to measure the quality of Menelas output, and its application to the state of the French Menelas prot...

This paper investigates the prevalence of cyber crimes in Ghana and its impact on ICT adoption. Through a qualitative approach, we explore efforts by organizations and organs of government in Ghana towards curtailing cyber crimes in terms of apprehension, prosecution, reporting, and law enforcement. Findings from our research showed that although awareness of cyber crimes is on the increase, th...

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