OBJECTIVES This study aims to explore the issues and challenges involved in designing and organizing pilot implementations of health information systems (HIS). Pilot implementations are a widely used approach for identifying design flaws and implementation issues before full-scale deployment of new HIS. However, it is not uncommon for pilot implementations to fail in the sense that little can b...

background: massive ischemic stroke causes significant mortality and morbidity in stroke patients. the main treatments for massive ischemic stroke are recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtpa), craniotomy, and endovascular interventions. due to destructive  effects  of   bradykinin  on  the  nervous system in ischemic stroke, it seems reasonable that using noscapine as a bradykinin antago...

Pilot/feasibility studies can be an essential part of trial preparation, particularly in planning complex interventions. However, recent research indicates that these studies suffer from publication bias and a lack of clarity in the objectives and methodological focus. Misunderstandings about the purpose of pilot/feasibility studies mean that opportunities to answer the important research quest...

OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this project were to (1) identify the heterotrophic bacteria that colonize chloraminated distribution systems using bench-scale, pilot-scale, and full-scale environments, (2) determine whether benchscale and pilot-scale chloraminated systems are adequate models of full-scale chloraminated distribution systems, in regards to heterotrophic bacteria, and (3) explore t...

objective herpes simplex virus (hsv) infection during pregnancy may lead to fetal loss. the aim of this study was to explore the infection rate of hsv type 1 and 2 infection associated with spontaneous abortion in a pilot case-control study in two cities of iran in 2010. patients and methods placenta and curettage samples from 35 healthy full term neonates and 35 cases of spontaneous abortion w...

Many extreme scale scientific applications have workloads comprised of a large number of individual high-performance tasks. The Pilot abstraction decouples workload specification, resource management, and task execution via job placeholders and late-binding. As such, suitable implementations of the Pilot abstraction can support the collective execution of large number of tasks on supercomputers...