Molecular detection to improve surgery

Two Minutes to Improve Cardiac Surgery Outcomes.

Using prediction to improve elective surgery scheduling.

BACKGROUND An ageing population and higher rates of chronic disease increase the demand on health services. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reports a 3.6% per year increase in total elective surgery admissions over the past four years.1 The newly introduced National Elective Surgery Target (NEST) stresses the need for efficiency and necessitates the development of improved planni...

A Lightweight Intrusion Detection System Based on Specifications to Improve Security in Wireless Sensor Networks

Due to the prevalence of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in the many mission-critical applications such as military areas, security has been considered as one of the essential parameters in Quality of Service (QoS), and Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is considered as a fundamental requirement for security in these networks. This paper presents a lightweight Intrusion Detection System to prote...

Using Crowdsourcing to Improve Profanity Detection

Profanity detection is often thought to be an easy task. However, past work has shown that current, list-based systems are performing poorly. They fail to adapt to evolving profane slang, identify profane terms that have been disguised or only partially censored (e.g., @ss, f$#%) or intentionally or unintentionally misspelled (e.g., biatch, shiiiit). For these reasons, they are easy to circumve...

Using Feedback to Improve Masquerade Detection

To gain access to account privileges, an intruder masquerades as the proper account user. Information from user feedback helps to improve the accuracy of classifiers used for detecting masquerades. Instead of operating in isolation, the online sequential classifier can request feedback from the user. In the full-feedback policy, the classifier verifies every session; in the feedback-on-alarm po...