OLD MEDO

Mobile Task Management for Medical Ward Rounds - The MEDo Approach

In hospitals, ward rounds are crucial for decision-making in the context of patient treatment processes. In the course of a ward round, new tasks are de ned and allocated to physicians and nurses. In clinical practice, however, these tasks are not systematically managed. During ward rounds, they are jotted down using pen and paper, and their later processing is prone to errors. Furthermore, med...

New Generation of Data Mining Applications, Edited by Jozef Zurada and Medo Kantardzic

With the advent of massively parallel computer systems, scientists are now able to simulate complex phenomena (e.g., explosions of a stars). Such scientific simulations typically generate largescale data sets over the spatio-temporal space. Unfortunately, the sheer sizes of the generated data sets make efficient exploration of them impossible. Constructing queriable statistical models is an ess...

Speech Corpus Spoken by Young-old, Old-old and Oldest-old Japanese

We have constructed a new speech data corpus, using the utterances of 100 elderly Japanese people, to improve speech recognition accuracy of the speech of older people. Humanoid robots are being developed for use in elder care nursing homes. Interaction with such robots is expected to help maintain the cognitive abilities of nursing home residents, as well as providing them with companionship. ...

Old drugs - old people - new insights.

Dr. Dan Sitar was the recipient of the 2004 CSCP Senior Investigator Award at the First Canadian Therapeutics Congress held in June 2004. He presented a lecture highlighting some of the studies he participated in that have contributed to an increased understanding of the role of aging on drug disposition and effect.

Editorial: Going beyond "Same Old, Same Old"