BACKGROUND The use of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is a widely used and effective therapy, which reduces the risk of cardiac death in many cardiac diseases, both implanted for secondary and primary prevention. However, recurrent arrhythmias and ICD discharges have adverse prognostic significance. Additional parameters that would identify patients who are at increased risk of ...

PVDF-based membranes with low-fouling and high permeability properties were developed by blending poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) poly(2-methoxyethyl acrylate) (PMEA), a polymer, via non-solvent induced phase separation (NIPS). Since PMEA suppresses protein adsorption is insoluble in water, the homopolymer was used as an additive. Consequently, transparent dope solutions containing 15 wt% PVDF...

Abstract Recently, Zhang-Rice triplet to singlet excitations have been measured
experimentally and verified numerically in a van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS 3 ,
which reveals collective local change of an electronic structure. In particular, such
numerical simulations predicted that these occur simultaneously
with electric polarizations. this study, we uncover...

We present and summarize the results from 50-, 100-and 200-city TSP benchmarks presented at the 1989 NIPS post-conference workshop using neural network, elastic net, genetic algorithm and simulated annealing approaches. These results are also compared with a state-of-the-art hybrid approach consisting of greedy solution, simulated annealing, and exhaustive search.

This article investigates the performance of combining support vector machines (SVM) and various feature selection strategies. Some of them are filtertype approaches: general feature selection methods independent of SVM, and some are wrapper-type methods: modifications of SVM which can be used to select features. We apply these strategies while participating at NIPS 2003 Feature Selection Chall...

This paper presents a new Bayesian non-parametric model by extending the usage of Hierarchical Latent Dirichlet Allocation to extract tree structured word clusters from text data. The inference algorithm of the model collects words in a cluster if they share similar distribution over documents. In our experiments, we observed meaningful hierarchical structures on NIPS corpus and radiology repor...

Despite the steadily increasing area under protected agriculture there is a current lack of knowledge about effects insect-proof screen (IPS) on microclimate and crop water requirements in arid semi-arid regions. Field experiments were conducted two cycles Ningxia Northwest China to study impact IPS microclimate, reference evapotranspiration (ET0) growth Chinese Flowering Cabbage (CFC). The res...

Background The number of nurse prescribers is increasing, yet little evidence exists about their antibiotic prescribing behaviour. Aim To measure independent prescribers' (NIPs) intention to manage patients, presenting with an upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) for the first time, without and examine determinants this Methods This was a mixed-method study using Reasoned Action Approach (R...

Introduction: The most important purpose in neonatal pain management is to minimize the felt by newborns and help newborn cope with pain. This study planned examine effects of two non-pharmacological methods, using pacifiers or maternal holding, on neonates’ admitted outpatient clinic (OC) hospitalized Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Material Methods: Ninety (30 used pacifiers, 30 holding,...