Infectious disease medicine and intensive care medicine are two well established areas in the realm of medical knowledge and praxis. The former, much older, has developed and reinvented itself ever since medicine gained consciousness of itself as occupation and art. The second, equipped by contemporaneity, presses forward in large strides creating and consolidating its epistemological statutes,...

Most existing rough set-based feature selection algorithms suffer from intensive computation of either discernibility functions or positive regions to find attribute reduct. In this paper, we develop a new computation model based on relative attribute dependency defined as the proportion of the projection of the decision table on a condition attributes subset to the projection of the decision t...

The chronicles of nearshore morphology and surficial beach deposits provide valuable information about the nature of the beach condition and the depositional environment. It imparts an understanding about the spatial and temporal relationship of nearshore waves and its influence over the distribution of beach sediments. This article contains data about wave and sediment dynamics of the ten sand...

OBJECTIVES : To investigate whether a daily exercise session, using a bedside cycle ergometer, is a safe and effective intervention in preventing or attenuating the decrease in functional exercise capacity, functional status, and quadriceps force that is associated with prolonged intensive care unit stay. A prolonged stay in the intensive care unit is associated with muscle dysfunction, which m...

This study investigates the role of tutors in face-to-face as well as computer-mediated problem-based learning. This study examined whether or not a tutor should use his or her expertise in facilitating small group problem discussion practiced in classroom or in synchronous computer-mediated communication. In one experimental condition, the tutor acted as a moderator providing no information re...

Condition monitoring systems of manufacturing processes have been recognised in recent years as one of the key technologies that provide the competitive advantage in many manufacturing environments. It is capable of providing essential means to reduce cost, increase productivity, improve quality and prevent damage to the machine or work-piece. Turning operations are considered one of the most c...

Pulmonary hypertension was once thought to be a rare condition and only managed in specialized centers. Now however, with the advent of echocardiography, it is found in many clinical scenarios, in the neonate with chronic lung disease, in the acute setting in the intensive care unit, in connective tissue disease and in cardiology pre- and postoperatively. We have a better understanding of the p...