Dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-induced colitis is widely used to study pathological mechanisms and potential treatments of inflammatory bowel disease. Because temporal changes in genome expression profiles remain unknown in this model, we performed whole genome expression profile analysis during the development of DSS colitis in comparison with ulcerative colitis (UC) specimens to identify novel ...

A decision support system (DSS) was developed to support tactical decision making in demanding, ambiguous situations. An applied experiment was conducted to evaluate the extent to which the DSS contributed to greater situational awareness. Eight highly experienced CO-TAO teams participated in four realistic scenarios, two with and two without the DSS. Decision performance and team communication...

Cancer Multidisciplinary Meeting (MDM) is a widely endorsed mechanism for ensuring high quality evidence-based health care. However, there are shortcomings that couldultimately result inunintended patient harm. On the other hand, clinical guidelines and clinical decision support systems (DSS)havebeen shown to improvedecision-making invarious measures. Nevertheless, their clinical use requires s...

The high pace emergence in wireless technologies have given rise to an immense demand towards Quality of Service (QoS) aware multimedia data transmission over mobile wireless multimedia sensor network (WMSN). Ensuring reliable communication over WMSN while fulfilling timely and optimal packet delivery over WMSN can be of great significance for emerging IoT ecosystem. With these motivations, in ...

The article discusses a new decision support process for forestry pest management. Over the past few years, DSS have been introduced for forestry pest management, providing forest growers with advice in areas such as selecting the most suitable pesticide and relevant treatment. Most of the initiatives process knowledge from various domains for providing support for specific decision making prob...

We evaluated associations of interstitial changes with radiation pneumonitis (RP) for patients treated with thoracic radiotherapy. Between 2005 and 2009, patients who received thoracic radiotherapy of 40 Gy or more for lung cancer or thymic tumors and were followed-up for more than 6 months were eligible for this study. Possible risk factors for RP included the presence of interstitial changes ...

The USDA-ARS Agricultural Systems Research Unit (ASRU), in a collaborative effort with Colorado State University (CSU), developed the Great Plains Framework for Agricultural Resource Management (GPFARM) DSS. The general purpose of GPFARM is to serve as a whole-farm/ranch DSS for strategic agroecosystem sustainability evaluation across the U.S. Great Plains. Despite a reasonable level of produce...

Using of decision support systems is today far away from being only the domain of top business management. DSSs are successfully applied in many areas of human activities, from traditional finance, financial forecasting and financial management, through clinical medicine, pharmacy, agronomy, metallurgy, logistics and transportation, to maintenance of machinery and equipment. Despite this, the u...