Background: Hospital accreditation is an external evaluation of a hospital’s structures, processes and results by an independent professional accreditation body using pre-established optimum standards. Hospital accreditation has an important role in improving quality, safety, effectiveness and efficiency of hospital services. A generic questionnaire is usually used to accredit all hospitals. Ho...

Lautenschlager, R.A. 2000. Identifying specific indicators of sustainable forest management. In Proceedings, From science to management and back: a science forum for southern interior ecosystems of British Columbia. C. Hollstedt, K. Sutherland, and T. Innes (editors). Southern Interior Forest Extension and Research Partnership, Kamloops, B.C., pp. 7–9. Identifying specific indicators of sustain...

Authors' conclusions The best available evidence suggests that breast symptoms are evaluated initially by clinical breast exam and imaging study, with supplemental studies when the diagnosis is unclear. There is no evidence to support modifying the workup of breast symptoms or mammographic abnormalities based on risk factors other than age. Strong evidence supports the necessity of performing e...

We propose a methodology to improve the performance of embedded processors running data-intensive applications by allowing embedded software to manage on-chip memory on an application-specific or task-specific basis. We provide this management ability with a novel hardware mechanism, column caching. Column caching provides software with the ability to dynamically partition the cache. Data can b...

This paper considers the problem of knowledge­ based model construction in the presence of uncertainty about the association of domain entities to random variables. Multi-entity Bayesian networks (MEBNs) are defined as a representation for knowledge in domains characterized by uncertainty in the number of relevant entities, their interrelationships, and their association with observables. An ME...

Task-specific dystonia is a form of isolated focal dystonia with the peculiarity of being displayed only during performance of a specific skilled motor task. This distinctive feature makes task-specific dystonia a particularly mysterious and fascinating neurological condition. In this review, we cover phenomenology and its increasingly broad-spectrum risk factors for the disease, critically rev...

Domain-specific languages (DSLs) have demonstrated their capability to reduce the gap between the problem domain and the technical decisions during the software development process. However, building a DSL is not an easy task because it requires specialized knowledge and skills. Moreover, the challenge becomes even more complex in the context of multi-domain companies where several domains coex...

In a study of 100 women with non-specific vaginitis, characterised by a vaginal discharge which was malodorous and pruritic in most cases and caused dyspareunia and dysuria in some, Gardnerella vaginalis was isolated in 46% of patients. When present, G vaginalis was significantly associated with Mycoplasma hominis and Bacteroides species. Isolation of G vaginalis was unrelated to the presenting...