BACKGROUND We assessed the potential impact of infusion tubing on blood glucose imbalance in ICU patients given intensive insulin therapy (IIT). We compared the incidence of blood glucose imbalance in patients equipped, in a nonrandomized fashion, with either conventional tubing or with a multiport infusion device. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the nursing files of 35 patients given IIT...

The single machine scheduling problem is considered in which each task has a release dates, a processing time and a due date. The objective is to mimimize the maximum lateness. Preemption is not allowed. Scheduling problem 1|rj |Lmax is a NP-hard problem. We define an IIT (inserted idle time) schedule as a feasible schedule in which a processor is kept idle at a time when it could begin process...

OBJECTIVE Intensive insulin therapy (IIT) reduces morbidity and mortality in patients in surgical intensive care units. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of IIT using a closed-loop system in hepatectomized patients. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Patients were randomly assigned to receive IIT using a closed-loop system: an artificial pancreas (AP group) or conventional insulin therapy ...

In this paper we describe our progress towards building an interlingua based machine translation system, by capturing the semantics of the source language sentences in the form of Universal Networking Language (UNL) graphs from which the target language sentences can be produced. There are two stages to the UNL graph generation: first, the conceptual arguments of a situation are identified in t...

This paper investigates some dynamic aspects of the “smooth adjustment hypothesis” that is commonly associated with intraindustry trade (IIT). The analysis is conducted on a panel of plant-level employment data and industry-level production and trade data for Ireland. Rates of intraindustry job turnover are used as a proxy for labor-market adjustment. Three findings stand out. First, a measure ...

iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank all the faculty members in the department for being patient with me and working hard to help me improve and mature. Specifically I would like to thank Craig Wells, who helped me with most of my projects and always gave encouraging words. Finally, I would like to thank the people at both HP and Excelsior College for their contributions to this work. Witho...

Intensive insulin therapy (IIT) improves the outcome of prolonged critically ill patients, but concerns remain regarding potential harm and the optimal blood glucose level. These questions were addressed using the pooled dataset of two randomized controlled trials. Independent of parenteral glucose load, IIT reduced mortality from 23.6 to 20.4% in the intention-to-treat group (n = 2,748; P = 0....

For TREC-10, we participated in the adhoc and manual web tracks and in both the site-finding and cross-lingual tracks. For the adhoc track, we did extensive calibrations and learned that combining similarity measures yields little improvement. This year, we focused on a single highperformance similarity measure. For site finding, we implemented several algorithms that did well on the data provi...

BACKGROUND The benefits and harms of intensive insulin therapy (IIT) titrated to strict glycemic targets in hospitalized patients remain uncertain. PURPOSE To evaluate the benefits and harms of IIT in hospitalized patients. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews from 1950 to January 2010, reference lists, experts, and unpublished sources. STUDY SELECTION English-...

A long with improving patients' safety and reducing medical errors, one of the main challenges in medicine is implementing new strategies that have the potential to improve health outcomes. After the process of critically appraising clinical trials has fi nished, and the results of this appraisal are used to guide changes in clinical practice, it is then time to critically appraise the success ...