INTRODUCTION This paper presents mobile application implementing a decision support system for acid-base disorder diagnosis and treatment recommendation. MATERIAL AND METHODS The application was developed using the official integrated development environment for the Android platform (to maximize availability and minimize investments in specialized hardware) called Android Studio. RESULTS Th...

In many real-world applications, the problem of learning from imbalanced data (the imbalanced learningproblem) is a relatively new challenge that has attracted growing attention from both academia and industry. The imbalanced learning problem is concerned with the performance of learning algorithms in the presence of underrepresented data and severe class distribution skews. Due to the inherent...

This eye-tracking study explores visual recognition of Dutch suffixed words (e.g., plaats+ing ‘‘placing”) embedded in sentential contexts, and provides new evidence on the interplay between storage and computation in morphological processing. We show that suffix length crucially moderates the use of morphological properties. In words with shorter suffixes, we observe a stronger effect of full-f...

Antimicrobials are one of the most widely prescribed classes of therapeutic agents. Although adverse effects of antimicrobials are generally minimal and reversible, serious sequelae can sometimes remain, such as unusual forms of renal failure, acid base disturbance and electrolyte abnormalities. Many antimicrobials, especially vancomycin or aminoglycosides, are associated with development of ac...

Neuromuscular blocking agents are frequently used in the Intensive Care Unit to facilitate tracheal intubation and the application of continuous paralysis. This review will focus on various conditions of the critically ill patient such as multi-organ dysfunction, acid-base and electrolyte imbalance, prolonged immobility, multiple drug interactions and specific disease/injury processes that may ...

In the past decade, several rules for fusion of pattern classifiers’ outputs have been proposed. Although imbalanced classifiers, that is, classifiers exhibiting very different accuracy, are used in many practical applications (e.g., multimodal biometrics for personal identity verification), the conditions of classifiers’ imbalance under which a given rule can significantly outperform another o...

Study Objective: The objective of this integrative review is to update researchers on the clinical and ethical considerations that are shaping the current understanding of informed consent for research participants with a severe mental illness (SMI). METHOD: A literature search was performed within the last 5 years in the following databases: Legal Collection, MasterFile Premier, MEDLINE, and P...

background and aim: the elderly afflicted with hearing loss experience the consequent problems of falling and imbalance. some rea­sons have been reported for the relationship between hearing loss and imbalance. however, a large part of the population of the elderly does not experience hearing assessments and if such assessments are done, the right rehabilitation services are not offered. this s...