The normal form derived by Mansour [I] for single-input / single-output, time-invariant, linear discrete systems will be extended to the multivariable case. An algorithm will be used to achieve simple computation of this form starting with the Luenberger first canonical form. The construction of this form will be illustrated by examples applied to model reduction of multivariable discrete-time ...

The convergence rate of LDPC decoding is comparatively slower than turbo code decoding: 25 LDPC iterations versus 8-10 iterations for turbo codes. Recently, Mansour proposed a ‘turbo-schedule’ to improve the convergence rate of LDPC decoders. In this letter, we first extend the turbo-scheduling principle to the check messages. Second, we show analytically that the convergence rate of both turbo...

Citation Ankomah, Pierre, Suzanne Mccluskey, Michael Abers, Benjamin Bearnot, Shreya Patel, Philipp Schuetz, Victor Chiappa, Kent Lewandrowski, Jatin Vyas, and Michael Mansour. 2017. “Serial Procalcitonin Levels Correlate with Microbial Etiology in Hospitalized Patients with Pneumonia.” Open Forum Infectious Diseases 4 (Suppl 1): S351. doi:10.1093/ofid/ofx163.846. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid...

Mansour and colleagues recommend not routinely using the pulmonary artery catheter to guide hemodynamic management in the intensive care unit, because the perceived benefits are largely intangible [1]. Pulmonary artery catheter monitoring of the right ventricular ejection fraction (RVef) and of the right ventricular end-diastolic volume (EDV), however, reflects powerful yet underutilized relati...

Mayo Clinic Arizona, 13400 East Shea Boulevard, Scottsdale, AZ 85259-USA Phone: 480 301-6907 Fax: 480 301-8018 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Accepted Date: 28.01.2015 Available Online Date: 04.03.2015 ©Copyright 2015 by Turkish Society of Cardiology Available online at www.anatoljcardiol.com DOI:10.5152/akd.2015.5914 Sherif Moustafa1,2, David J. Patton 3, Mansour ...

We build on the work of Andelman & Mansour and Azar, Birnbaum, Karlin, Mathieu & Thach Nguyen to show that the fullinformation (i.e., offline) budgeted-allocation problem can be approximated to within 4/3: we conduct a rounding of the natural LP relaxation, for which our algorithm matches the known lower-bound on the integrality gap.

We are interested in the problem of planning for factored POMDPs. Building on the recent results of Kearns, Mansour and Ng, we provide a planning algorithm for fac-tored POMDPs that exploits the accuracy-eeciency tradeoo in the belief state simplii-cation introduced by Boyen and Koller.

John T. Maple, DO, FASGE, Chair and primary author, Rahul Pannala, MD, MPH, Barham K. Abu Dayyeh, MD, MPH, Harry R. Aslanian, MD, FASGE, Brintha K. Enestvedt, MD, MBA, Adam Goodman, MD, Sri Komanduri, MD, Michael Manfredi, MD, Udayakumar Navaneethan, MD, Mansour A. Parsi, MD, FASGE, Zachary L. Smith, DO, Nirav Thosani, MD, Shelby A. Sullivan, MD, Subhas Banerjee, MD, FASGE, previous Committee C...