The prominence of reciprocal understanding in patient-doctor empathic engagement implies that patient perception of clinician's empathy has an important role in the assessment of the patient-clinician relationship. In response to a need for an assessment tool to measure patient's views of clinician empathy, we developed a brief (5-item) instrument, the Jefferson Scale of Patient Perceptions of ...

In our previous study, five different secretory proteins, including GSN, ADAMTSL4, CALR, PPIA and TXN, have been identified to be associated with the nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) metastasis.In this work, the 5 proteins were further investigated. Bioinformatics analysis suggested that they might play an important role in the process of NPC development.Western blotting analysis showed that all ...

The objective of the study was to assess UC Davis Health System's transition to digital radiology. The study involved pre- and post-PACS analyses of workflow and costs, physician satisfaction surveys, and self-recorded radiology interactions by on-call residents. The study revealed significant results. Before the PACS implementation, physicians spent one to three hours searching for films daily...

In this paper, we present a predictive neural network called Neural Predictive Coding (NPC). This model is used for non linear discriminant features extraction (DFE) applied to phoneme recognition. We validate the nonlinear prediction improvement of the NPC model. We also, present a new extension of the NPC model : NPC-3. In order to evaluate the performances of the NPC-3 model, we carried out ...

BACKGROUND Shortages of human resources for health (HRH) have severely hampered the rollout of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa. Current rollout models are hospital- and physician-intensive. Task shifting, or delegating tasks performed by physicians to staff with lower-level qualifications, is considered a means of expanding rollout in resource-poor or HRH-limited settings. ...

This paper deals with complexity classes PC and NPC, as they were introduced over the complex numbers by Blum, Shub and Smale [3] . Under the assumption PC 6= NPC the existence of non-complete problems in NPC , not belonging to PC , is established.

for diagnosing prom, the need has been acutely felt for special care in obstetrics. coordinated management for patient care between the clinician and midwives is the custom in several obstetric care centers. diagnosis and treatment by the physician has greatly facilitated the work of midwives, to the extent that they now play an important role in the special nursing of women in solving obstetri...

The present paper presents the use of ANN (Artifical Neural Networks) in NPC (Non-Player Character) decisionmaking process in RPG (Role-Playing Games) electronic games. It mainly focus on the making of decision of attacking or not a certain opponent by analyzing the NPC and its opponent internal state. Keywordsgames; artifical neural networks; decision-making process; NPC

An important responsibility of hospitals is to assure the quality medical care they provide. One key pillars assurance a committee local peers determine professional competence physicians. On occasion, incompetence or disruptive behavior clinician found have caused patient harm. The peer review holds deficient physician accountable and hospital uses their authority impose swift corrective actio...