Background and Objectives: Evaluating the performance of clinical units is critical for effective management of health settings. Certain assessment of clinical variables for performance analysis is not always possible, calling for use of uncertainty theory. This study aimed to develop and evaluate an integrated independent component analysis-fuzzy-data envelopment analysis approach to accurate ...

DQ/IQ measurement in general and in the specific context of BI has always been a topic of high interest for researchers. The topic of Data Quality (DQ) in the field of Information Management has been well researched, published, and studied. Despite such research advances, there has been very little understanding either from a theoretical or from a practical perspective of DQ/IQ measurement for ...

Unpublished data of Bradley and associates (1) indicate that about 25 to 30 per cent of the cardiac output, as measured by the ballistocardiograph (2), perfuses the kidney of healthy adults at rest. This figure has been reported in a review on renal physiology (3). Levy and Blalock (4) obtained an average value of 18.5 per cent in unanesthetized dogs, using the catheterization technique or hear...

Recently, genetic algorithm (GA) has been introduced as an effective method to solve the registration problem. It maintains a population of candidate solutions for the problem and evolves by iteratively applying a set of stochastic operators. Accordingly, a key question is how to reduce the population size. In this study, the authors present two techniques for reducing the population size in th...

This paper reviews the current status of point-of-care testing (PoCT) devices that are available for measuring whole blood or serum/plasma creatinine globally and within Australasia. Information on non-analytical specifications and analytical performance is provided using data sourced from recently published literature, external quality assurance programs and evaluative work by the author's uni...

In the context of Software and Technology Engineering ontologies are frequently used. These can be grouped into two main categories, depending on whether they are used to describe the knowledge of a domain (domain ontologies); or they are used as software artifacts in software development processes. This paper presents some experiences and lessons learnt from the effective use of an ontology fo...