Transcribing medical documents accurately into pre-defined formats and within certain time frames is vital for administrative and medical purposes in any hospital. This paper describes quantitative models incorporating available data to represent transcription activities of a medical records department. We forecasted the workload of the department, determined the optimal worker schedule and des...

ACME, an automated tool for generating and evaluating the quality of VoIP calls, is presented. ACME examines the availability of bandwidth and processing capacity to determine the largest number of simultaneous calls that a node can operate in a given topology, besides supporting pre-programmed schedule of VoIP experiments. Demos of ACME usage as a capacity estimation tool and as an instrument ...

In many stochastic optimization algorithms there is a hyperparameter that controls how the next sampling distribution is determined from the current data set of samples of the objective function. This hyperparameter controls the exploration/exploitation trade-off of the next sample. Typically heuristic “rules of thumb” are used to set that hyperparameter, e.g., a pre-fixed annealing schedule. W...

This paper introduces a fast method to generate high performance parallelized code from dataflow specification of an application. Dataflow Models Computation (MoCs) are efficient programming paradigms for expressing the parallelism Traditionally, mapping and scheduling methods MoCs rely on complex graph’s transformations explicit their which can result in graph embarrassingly parallel applicati...

INTRODUCTION S treptococcus pneumoniae is the main agent in bacterial consolidated pneumonias. In 2012, the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine was introduced in the Argentine national immunization schedule for immunocompetent children as of two months old with a two-dose schedule plus a booster. OBJECTIVE To analyze the influence of respiratory viruses on the evaluation of the 13-valent...

introduction: during ramadan, adult muslims abstain from drinking and eating from sunrise to sunset. this religious practice influences individuals’ lifestyle factors such as eating behavior, meal schedule, and sleep pattern. these changes may affect endocrine and neuroendocrine circadian patterns, and consequently, cardiovascular indices. this study was performed to investigate the effects of ...

BACKGROUND Pre-anaesthetic evaluation is a basic component of safe anaesthetic practice and ends with the establishment of an anaesthetic plan of action for individual patients. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to assess the difficulties encountered by the anaesthetist during such visits and suggest ways they can be overcome SUBJECTS AND METHODS The 'activity book' of anaesthetic...

We present a prooling based technique for power estimation. This technique is implemented in the pdss (Proole Driven Synthesis System) for the synthesis of low power designs. Initially, each module in the module library is characterized for the average switching capacitance per input vector. The input description is simulated using user-speciied set of input vectors to collect the proole data f...

Due to the uncertainty of software processes, statistic based schedule estimation and stochastic project scheduling both play significant roles in software project management. However, most current work investigates them independently without an integrated process to achieve on-time delivery for software development organisations. For such an issue, this paper proposes a two-stage probabilistic...

This paper presents a novel approach to solve the hydro plant dispatch problem based on the artificial neural network (ANN) and genetic algorithm (GA). In this work, the difficult water balance constraints are embedded and satisfied throughout the proposed encoding and decoding algorithms. The ANN is used as a pre-dispatch tool to generate raw hydro output for each hour temporarily ignoring tim...