The operating theater blood transaction system (OTBTS) is a virtual blood banking system that allows computer crossmatch-compatible blood ordering and delivery in the operating theater remote from the hospital blood bank. It was developed and implemented in our hospital in 1997 and was expanded in 2002 to include an unmatched blood module that allows ordering and issuing unmatched RBCs for intr...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To determine the attitudes of otolaryngology residency program directors and chairpersons toward unmatched residency applicants, including whether a surgical internship or research year is preferred in considering repeat applicants. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. METHODS Approval was obtained from the Colorado Multiple Institution Review Board. A 12-question Web-...

AIM Evaluation of safety in using unmatched human allogeneic umbilical cord blood cells for therapeutic use in individuals with non-haematopoietic degenerative conditions. BACKGROUND The historical data and several recent immunological arguments suggest the therapeutic use of allogeneic Cord Blood Mononuclear Cells (CBMNCs), as these cells do not elicit immune response. Customarily, HLA match...

Received Sep 19, 2017 Revised Dec 30, 2017 Accepted Jan 17, 2018 Penetration of multilevel inverters (MLI) in to high power and medium voltage application has been increasing because of its advantages. A conventional two level inverter has high harmonic distortion which gives poor power quality. Lot of topologies has been developed to overcome the drawbacks of two level inverter. These topologi...

Item Count Technique (ICT) serves the purpose of estimating the proportion of the people with stigmatizing attributes using the indirect questioning method. An improved ICT has been recently proposed in the literature (not requiring two subsamples and hence free from finding optimum subsample sizes unlike the usual ICT) in a classical framework that performs better than the usual ICT and the Wa...

INTRODUCTION GIS continuously increase in complexity, more and more data are created as much features developed to treat them. On the user side, GIS software is now integrated in several processes such as emergency management. In this article, we study how novel Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) techniques can improve GIS usability, especially for making command selection easier and for enabling...

OBJECTIVES In this study, we proposed an algorithm for mapping standard terminologies for the automated generation of medical bills. As the Korean and American structures of health insurance claim codes for laboratory tests are similar, we used Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) instead of the Korean health insurance code set due to the advantages of mapping in the English language. METHODS...

We consider the problem of counting matchings in planar graphs. While perfect matchings in planar graphs can be counted by a classical polynomial-time algorithm [26, 33, 27], the problem of counting all matchings (possibly containing unmatched vertices, also known as defects) is known to be #P-complete on planar graphs [23]. To interpolate between the hard case of counting matchings and the eas...

There has been low confidence in the replicability and reproducibility of published psychological findings. Previous work demonstrated that a population psychologists exists have used questionable research practices (QRPs), or behaviors during data collection, analysis, publication can increase number false-positive findings scientific literature. Across two survey studies, we sought to estimat...