BACKGROUND An evaluation of exercise counseling practices among nephrologists in 2001 demonstrated few clinicians assessing patients' levels of physical activity (PA) and counseling to increase activity. Recent Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) cardiovascular guidelines recommended that nephrologists counsel patients to increase PA. Our objective was to ascertain whether nephro...

Development of an accurate forecasting model for effective prediction Quality Service (QoS) parameters inter-net things (IoT) based web services is highly desired, such that it improves service management and user experience. Mostly, QoS are volatile in nature which make the IoT recommendation process chal-lenging. Artificial neural network (ANN) models found to be worthy modeling nonlinear par...