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Transfer of patients from the cardiac intensive care unit to the general ward, is one of the main reasons for anxiety. Given that the transfer anxiety may be due to receive at least, inconsistent or do not receive enough information before the patients leaving the intensive care unit, Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of information provision on anxiety levels in patients tran...

Patient safety can be compromised by discontinuities in care. Studies suggest that discontinuity results from poor information transfer and faulty communication, which in turn may cause avoidable adverse events. Improving information transfer and communications among health care providers is an important patient safety practice and has been strongly recommended as a means to improve patient car...

In complex networks such as gene networks, traffic systems or brain circuits it is important to understand how long it takes for the different parts of the network to effectively influence one another. In the brain, for example, axonal delays between brain areas can amount to several tens of milliseconds, adding an intrinsic component to any timing-based processing of information. Inferring neu...

Recently, the permutation-information theoretic approach has been used in a broad range of research fields. In particular, in the study of highdimensional dynamical systems, it has been shown that this approach can be effective in characterizing global properties, including the complexity of their spatiotemporal dynamics. Here, we show that this approach can also be applied to reveal local spat...

We have previously proposed the use of quadratic Renyi’s mutual information, estimated using Parzen windowing, as an ICA criterion and showed that it utilizes data more efficiently than classical algorithms like InfoMax and FastICA. We suggested the use of Renyi’s definition of information theoretic quantities rather than Shannon’s definitions since the Shannon’s definitions are already include...

An information theoretic measure is derived that quantifies the statistical coherence between systems evolving in time. The standard time delayed mutual information fails to distinguish information that is actually exchanged from shared information due to common history and input signals. In our new approach, these influences are excluded by appropriate conditioning of transition probabilities....