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Commentary: how can we make diagnosis safer?.

Diagnostic errors are common and are a leading cause of patient dissatisfaction and malpractice suits. Because of its traditional heavy reliance on memory and lack of standardization, the diagnostic process is particularly error prone. A study by Zwaan and colleagues on diagnostic failures in treating dyspneic patients makes several important contributions: examining the process behind the diag...

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How fast can we make interpreted Python?

Python is a popular dynamic language with a large part of its appeal coming from powerful libraries and extension modules. These augment the language and make it a productive environment for a wide variety of tasks, ranging from web development (Django) to numerical analysis (NumPy). Unfortunately, Python’s performance is quite poor when compared to modern implementations of languages such as L...

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...

How sparse can we make the auditory representation of speech?

In this work we deal with a speech coder which is based on a model of the human peripheral auditory system and uses a neural auditory representation as its code. This representation consists of multi-channel sparse pulse trains but is still highly overcomplete and therefore not efficient in terms of its data compression capability. The emphasis of this paper is on answering the question ‘How sp...