AIM To determine how increases in surgical patient volume will affect emergency department (ED) access to inpatient cardiac services. To compare how strategies to increase cardiology inpatient throughput can either accommodate increases in surgical volume or improve ED patient access. METHODS A stochastic discrete event simulation was created to model patient flow through a cardiology inpatie...

Many recent information extraction (IE) systems have ignored the tedious and timeconsuming nature of the preparation involved in using them. The abundance of graduate students has eased the pain of providing annotated corpora, pre-filled answer templates, and manual examination of automatically-generated rules and final answers. In this paper, we present a new system comprised of previously pub...

Infective endocarditis (IE) carries a high risk of morbidity and mortality. Rapid diagnosis, effective treatment, and prompt recognition of complications are essential to good patient outcome. Therapy of IE caused by the more commonly encountered organisms, including streptococci, enterococci, staphylococci, and the HACEK organisms (Hemophilus parainfluenzae, Hemophilus aphrophilus, Actinobacil...

This study aimed to determine the aerosolization behavior of a nanodispersion of budesonide, prepared using microfluidic reactors. The size and morphology of budesonide nanoparticles were characterized by photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Processing/formulation parameters for formation of the nanoparticles were studied to determine their effects o...

Information Extraction (IE) is a technology for localizing and classifying pieces of relevant information in unstructured natural language texts and detecting relevant relations among them. This thesis deals with one of the central tasks of IE, i.e., relation extraction. The goal is to provide a general framework that automatically learns mappings between linguistic analyses and target semantic...

Vigour was measured using computer-aided analysis of digital images in six seed lots of Impatiens that differed in vigour but retained greater than 86% standard germination. Seed lots that differed in initial seed vigour were selected based on the commercially used Ball Vigour Index and vigour independently assessed using saturated salts accelerated aging tests. Digital images were captured fro...

Preparation and Evaluation of Master seed prepared from Local variant infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) isolated from different poultry farms in Egypt and identified as IS/1494/06 nephropathogenic strain are very important point for vaccine production for controlling of infectious brobchitis(IB) disease in Egypt. Master seed of the virus (MSV) contained 10 EID50 per dose per bird free from bact...

this study was conducted during two years (2007-2009) in shawoor agricultural research station on a silty-clay soil. experiment conducted in split plots in a randomized complete blocks design in three replications. main plots were planting methods including centrifugal broadcaster (p1), centrifugal broadcaster + furrower (p2), seed drill (p3), seed drill + furrower (p4), three lines bed drillin...