OBJECTIVES Tackling the harm associated with acute kidney injury (AKI) is a global priority. In England, a national computerised AKI algorithm is being introduced across the National Health Service (NHS) to drive this change. The study sought to maximise its clinical utility and minimise the potential for burden on clinicians and patients in primary care. DESIGN An appropriateness ratings eva...

Global Positioning System (GPS) has been proved to be a powerful tool for measuring co-seismic ground displacements with an application to seismic source inversion. Whereas most of the tsunamis are triggered by large earthquakes, GPS can contribute to the tsunami early warning system (TEWS) by helping to obtain tsunami source parameters in near real-time. Toward the end of 2012, the second phas...

background: one of the important aspects of hospital preparedness in disasters is its rapid early warning system. in this study, the activation of early warning system was evaluated under the monitoring of disasters workgroup of the ministry of health based on the national program of “hospitals preparedness in disasters” in shahid motahari hospital.  materials and methods: the sample was compos...

Precipitation is one of the most important parameters on the earth system, and the global distribution of precipitation and its change are essential data for modeling the water cycle, maintaining the ecosystem environment, agricultural production, improvements of the weather forecast precision, flood warning and so on. In the GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement) project, the microwave radiome...

background: all recent accident models emphasis on multi causality of accidents. the suggested models emphasized on human roles in accident occurrence. the results of recent decade's studies have shown that the main causes of accidents are human and his/her unsafe acts. nowadays, application of warning signs is an important way to decrease unsafe acts . methods: in this study, the unsafe acts o...

In this paper we present an approach for an agent-based early warning system (A-EWS) for critical infrastructures. In our approach we combine existing security infrastructures, e.g. firewalls or intrusion detection systems, with new detection approaches to create a global view and to determine the current threat state.

We report the discovery of a discrete hierarchy of microtransitions occurring in models of continuous and discontinuous percolation. The precursory microtransitions allow us to target almost deterministically the location of the transition point to global connectivity. This extends to the class of intrinsically stochastic processes the possibility to use warning signals anticipating phase trans...