OBJECTIVE Estimating the risk of a complicated course of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) might help doctors guide treatment. We aimed to validate 3 published prediction models: Hensgens (2014), Na (2015), and Welfare (2011). METHODS The validation cohort comprised 148 patients diagnosed with CDI between May 2013 and March 2014. During this period, 70 endemic cases of CDI occurred as well ...

BACKGROUND The objective was to develop a novel algorithm that can predict, based on field survey data, the minimum vaccination coverage required to reduce the mean number of infections per infectious individual to less than one (the Outbreak Response Immunization Threshold or ORIT) from up to six days in the advance. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS First, the relationship between the rate of ...

The Situated Action approach to AI emphasizes the role of the environment in the generation and control of behavior; see (Norman 1993) for an introduction. Work to date has focused mainly on activity within spatially and temporally localized environments such as kitchens and video games (Agre & Chapman 1987; Agre & Horswill 1992). How useful is this perspective when larger-scale activities are ...

__ Neural Network Model (NNM), Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Regression Model (RM) are developed to predict the spread of dengue outbreak in Malaysia. The case study covered dengue cases data from Selangor, which include seven mukims and eight administrative districts in year of 2004 and 2005. Specific criteria concerned are location, time (weeks) and intensity of dengue cases. Critical discuss...

Outbreak prediction is a way to predict the epidemic potentials of diseases using pattern medication sales values. Successful might result in being cautious outbreak and taking necessary measures prevent predicted outcome. As values are too random, analysis correlation one most interesting challenging parts for researchers. The major objective this proposed research method analyze drug certain ...

Origin of the coronavirus was the seafood market of Wuhan city, Hubei province in China. The cases of someone suffering from COVID-19 can be traced back to the end of December 2019 in China. This is the most infectious disease and spread worldwide within three months after the first case reported. The World Health Organization renames Coronavirus as COVID-19. COVID-19 is the β-Coronavirus famil...

Corresponding Author: Nor Azura Husin Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia Email: [email protected] Abstract: Early prediction of diseases especially dengue fever in the case of Malaysia, is very crucial to enable health authorities to develop response strategies and context preventive intervent...

and do not assume endorsement by the Federal Government (Edgar, 75.620(b)). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We gratefully acknowledge Cindy Gruman and Allison Roche for their assistance in preparing this report. We also appreciate the helpful comments on an early draft of the report provided by David Stapleton.