Hospital activity data can be accessed from a variety of sources ranging from hospitals to the Department of Health. These data provide valuable and widely used information, but care is needed in their use and interpretation. Hospital activity rates reflect not only the underlying prevalence and severity of disease, individual factors and referral practices, but also variations related to provi...

Global declines in biodiversity highlight the need to effectively monitor density and distribution of threatened species. In recent years, molecular survey methods detecting DNA released by target-species into their environment (eDNA) have been rapidly on rise. Despite providing new, cost-effective tools for conservation, eDNA-based are prone errors. Best field laboratory practices can mitigate...

Three steps in data modelling include conceptual, logical and physical modelling. The conceptual modelling models data from the users’ perspective independently from any logical and physical implementation. The paper discusses different conceptual modelling styles that may apply in modelling transactional and analytical information system. They are distinguished by the modelling intention, the ...

Background and Aims: The interpretation bias which is an important factor in the pathology of social anxiety disorder, has been recently considered in therapeutic approaches. Given the importance of interpretation bias in the treatment of social anxiety, and despite the ambiguity in the relationship between social anxiety and interpretation bias, we compared the interpretation bias in individua...

The RAPID tool facilitates the analysis and the visualization of data residing in arbitrary text files. It differs from other analysis applications in the way it selects and operates on data. In RAPID, data elements are directly retrieved from the unstructured text files using pattern-matching. For this purpose, we use the Perl language. This language was especially designed for efficient text ...