The development of scenario analysis (SA) to assist decision makers and stakeholders has been growing over the last few years through mainly exploiting qualitative information provided by experts. In this study, we present SA based on the use of qualitative data for strategy planning. We discuss the potential of SA as a decision-support tool, and provide a structured approach for the interpreta...

Due to brisk growth of data volume in many organizations, large-scale data processing became a demanding topic for industry as well as for academic fields. Hadoop is widely adopted in Cloud Computing environment for unstructured data. Hadoop is an open source, a java based distributed computing framework, and supports large-scale distributed data processing. In the recent years, Hadoop Distribu...

The decision to accept or decline a liver allograft for a patient on the transplant waiting list is complex. We hypothesized that surgeons are not accurate at predicting donor-specific risks. Surgeon members of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons were invited to complete a survey in which they predicted the 3-year risk of graft failure for a 53-year-old man with alcoholic cirrhosis and ...

Failure resilience is a desired feature of the Internet. Most traditional restoration architectures assume single-failure assumption, which is not adequate in present day WDM optical networks. Multiple link failure models, in the form of Shared-Risk Link Groups (SRLG’s) and Shared Risk Node Groups (SRNG’s) are becoming critical in survivable optical network design. We classify both of these for...

BACKGROUND Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) is often considered when the pathogenesis of heart failure cannot be determined by noninvasive testing. Uncertainty remains about the diagnostic and clinical use of EMB in various clinical scenarios. METHODS AND RESULTS We examined the characteristics of a cohort of patients with unexplained heart failure who underwent EMB at a tertiary care medical cent...

Abstract Handover (HO) which can make user equipment (UE) communicate with the eNodeB (evolves NodeB) with the highest signal quality will have bad performance in high-speed railway scenario. In this paper, detailed introduction is made on Layer3 (L3) filtering theory to help solve this problem. HO measurement and HO decision procedure based on L3 filtering are designed and implemented in a dyn...

Background Hydrostatic lung edema is a characteristic complication of acute left-sided ventricular or valvular heart failure that if untreated has a high mortality due to the resulting respiratory failure. Traditionally, formation of hydrostatic lung edema has been attributed to an imbalance of Starling forces, i.e. transcapillary hydrostatic and oncotic pressure in the pulmonary circulation re...