The information systems management sets the attention to the importance of data and above all the activities of selection to individualise this data. The decisive lines to the aforesaid problem can be individualised in the activities of Data Mining (DM). DM procedures can be implemented through different techniques and formalities. Among all, the most properly employed in the solution of busine...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to investigate whether the length of informed consent documents (ICDs) for oncological trials have increased from 1987 to 2007 and analyze the content of the ICDs. DESIGN In total, 87 ICDs from oncological trials approved by the Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics (REC) in the central region of Norway from 1987 to 2007 were analyzed. A...

A physician-patient relationship is established as a result of a contract, express or implied, that the doctor will treat the patient with proper professional skill. 3 But it does not require the formalities of a contract—a contract can be implied in fact, which means it “arises from the acts and conduct of the parties, it being implied from the facts and circumstances that there was a mutual i...

We survey the literature on methods for inference and learning in Bayesian Networks composed of discrete and continuous nodes, in which the continuous nodes have a multivariate Gaussian distribution, whose mean and variance depends on the values of the discrete nodes. We also brie y consider hybrid Dynamic Bayesian Networks, an extension of switching Kalman lters. This report is meant to summar...