OBJECTIVES To develop an electronic registry of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) treated in a nephrology practice in order to provide clinically meaningful measurement and population management to improve rates of blood pressure (BP) control. METHODS We combined data from multiple electronic sources: the billing system, structured fields in the electronic health record (EHR), and fr...

“Baby Bollinger” (first name: Allen) was born to Anna and Allen Bollinger at the German-American Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The seven-pound Baby Bollinger was diagnosed with multiple physical anomalies and became the first victim in a string of public infanticides of disabled babies committed by the head of staff at the hospital, Dr. Harry Haiselden. The doctor declared Baby Bollinger a “mo...

image retrieval is an important research field which has received great attention in the last decades. in this paper, we present an approach for the image retrieval based on the combination of text-based and content-based features. for text-based features, keywords and for content-based features, color and texture features have been used. query in this system contains some keywords and an input...

This paper discusses the generation of cryptic crossword clues: a task that involves generating texts that have both a surface reading, based on a natural language interpretation of the words, and a hidden meaning in which the strings that form the text can be interpreted as a puzzle. The process of clue generation realizes a representation of the hidden, puzzle meaning of the clue through the ...

In scientific and information visualization 3D diagrams are now more common. Text or name labels in any kind of diagram play an important role. In this work we combine both 3D diagrams and text labels by evaluating the legibility of text on 3D shaded diagram elements. The focus is on using a transparent background for the text labels on the nodes. The investigation seeks to determine whether a ...