This study tested a PC based version of the CCC System on students' performance of charting patient care plans. The application was designed for any PC with Windows and Microsoft Office(r) programs. The PC based system was tested in a randomized trial with the control group using a type-in text-based only system also mounted on the bedside computer. The results demonstrate that the application ...

Charting and understanding lattice thermal conductivity of inorganic materials discovery REX for thermoelectrics.

Congress on Alcohol and Health is updated and submitted to Congress by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) every 3 years. This important document summarizes recent advances in alcohol research and charts current progress toward preventing and decreasing alcohol abuse and alcoholism. As well as being submitted to Congress, the report is distributed throughout the country to research...

The advent of more complicated control charting schemes has necessitated the use of Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) methods. Unfortunately, few sources exist to study effective design and validation of MCS methods related to control charting. This paper describes the design, issues, considerations and limitations for conducting normal-based control chart MCS studies, including choice of random num...

This article deals with the use of computers to carry out musicological practices which rely on scores segmentation and charting. We present a document model which allows to conduct complete multimedia (synchronization), efficient (spatial organization control, segmentation, material and logical document structuration) and semantic (annotations, hyperlinks) analysis, and propose an experimental...

Different parsers trained on the same corpus deliver different results, both in terms of overall performance and in terms of the individual analyses they provide. In particular, for any given sentence, one parser may provide a correct analysis, while another will produce an incorrect analysis; but when faced with a different sentence, the first parser may be in error while the second is correct...

Few companies have a clear strategic vision. The problem, say the authors, stems from the strategic-planning process itself, which usually involves preparing a large document, culled from a mishmash of data provided by people with conflicting agendas. That kind of process almost guarantees an unfocused strategy. Instead, companies should design the strategic-planning process by drawing a pictur...

This article presents the evolution of the Arabic cryptologic treatises discovered in Istanbul’s Süleymaniye library, linking its various phases to the greater bureaucratic trends of the regimes which produced these treatises.

We construct a nonlinear mapping from a high-dimensional sample space to a low-dimensional vector space, effectively recovering a Cartesian coordinate system for the manifold from which the data is sampled. The mapping preserves local geometric relations in the manifold and is pseudo-invertible. We show how to estimate the intrinsic dimensionality of the manifold from samples, decompose the sam...

W" TThen historians of the future ponder the twentieth century WV what will they focus on as its central hallmarks? The holocaust, with its frightening reminder of the fragility of human decency? The rise and fall of communism? The end of the colonial era and the triumphs and trials of the newly independent nations? The women's movement, with its profound effects on one half of our species?" Th...