Islet cell antibodies can predict eventual insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. In the standard method used by the Immunology of Diabetes Workshop (IDW), predictive power depends on antibody titer as determined by testing multiple serum dilutions. Here I report use of a microscope-based photometry system (MPS) to test whether islet fluorescence intensities from undiluted sera can predict IDW re...

BACKGROUND With the current funding climate and need for advancements in implementation science, there is a growing demand for grantsmanship workshops to increase the quality and rigor of proposals. A group-based implementation science-focused grantsmanship workshop, the Implementation Development Workshop (IDW), is one methodology to address this need. This manuscript provides an overview of t...

We present TARGIT’s Xbone memory-based analytics server and define the concept of an Inverted Data Warehouse (IDW). We demonstrate the high-performance analytics properties of this particular design, as well as its resistance to failures. Additionally, we present a large scale solution in which TARGIT Xbone and IDW are implemented incorporating Google search data. The solution is used for so-ca...

We looked into the problem that the quantitative values of 123I data vary according to collimator type. First, we made the assumption that the quantitative values of 123I data are degraded by the scattered photons from the 529 keV component which contaminate the 159 keV imaging data. Then, the 123I Dual Window (IDW) method was proposed to improve the quantitative values of the 123I data. The ID...

To design and implement an open-source parallel GIS (OP-GIS) based on a Linux cluster, the parallel inverse distance weighting (IDW) interpolation algorithm has been chosen as an example to explore the workingmodel and the principle of algorithmparallel pattern (APP), one of the parallelization patterns for OP-GIS. Based on an analysis of the serial IDW interpolation algorithm of GRASS GIS, thi...