abstract background: inadequate dialysis is one of the main causes of mortality of the patients undergoing hemodialysis. the methods that lead to improvement of dialysis adequacy in these patients are of great importance due to them causing an improvement of quality of life. as numerous factors can play a role in improvement of dialysis adequacy, the present study aimed to investigate the level...

We present the idea of estimating semantic distance in one, possibly resource-poor, language using a knowledge source in another, possibly resource-rich, language. We do so by creating cross-lingual distributional profiles of concepts, using a bilingual lexicon and a bootstrapping algorithm, but without the use of any sense-annotated data or word-aligned corpora. The cross-lingual measures of s...

Consolidating entity information spread across multiple documents is a critical problem now with the growing use of large open-domain document sources. Associating every entity in a corpus to a unique entry in a growing knowledge base serves a dual purpose of consolidating (disambiguating) entities as well as to build a rich growing knowledge source containing information about each and every e...

Instantaneous cross sectional flow velocity profiles from early mitral flow in 10 healthy men were constructed by time interpolation of the velocity data from each point in sequentially delayed two dimensional digital Doppler ultrasound maps. This interpolation allows correction of the artificially produced skewness of velocities across the flow sector caused by the time taken to scan the flow ...

• Author of case study within the eStandards project: Marco Eichelberg • Project name: IHE Cross-Community Profiles • Project type: concept (but implemented in large-scale deployment for sustained routine use) • Project status (in 10/2015): deployed for sustained routine use • Countries / Regions: deployments primarily in the United States • Project partners: Integrating t...