Critical laboratory results require timely and accurate transmission to the appropriate caregiver to provide intervention to prevent an adverse outcome. We report the use of text messages to notify critical laboratory results in a large teaching hospital to manage the documentation and audit requirements of critical result reporting by regulatory agencies. The text messaging system (critical re...

PURPOSE To describe hypermobility, balance, pain, activity, and participation in children with hypermobility and compare these characteristics with those of a control group. METHOD Twenty children aged 8 to 16 years with hypermobility syndrome (HMS) or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and a control group of 24 children of the same age participated in the study. Hypermobility was assessed according to t...

Due to customers' requirements for customized products that meet their unique needs, manufacturing companies have to be more agile with how their shopfloors are configured. One paradigm for ensuring such agility is that of Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS). In a HMS, artificially intelligent entities (called holons) act both autonomously and cooperatively to manage the shopfloor in a distribu...

Always-on video provides rich levels of awareness for collaborators separated by distance, yet it has the potential to threaten privacy as sensitive details may be broadcast to others. This threat increases for telecommuters who work at home and connect to office-based colleagues using video. Our research addresses the problem of how to develop and evaluate privacy-protecting strategies and use...

Benjamin W. Wah, A. Ieumwananonthachai, Shu Yao, and Ting Yu Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing Coordinated Science Laboratory University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1308 West Main Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA fwah, arthuri, yshu, [email protected] Abstract In this paper, we discuss a new approach to generalize heuristic methods (HMs) to new test cases of an applica...

In this paper, we introduce a discrete-time higher-order Markov-switching (HMS) model for measuring the risk of a portfolio. We suppose that the logarithmic returns from a risky portfolio is governed by a HMS model with the drift and the volatility switch over time according to the states of a discrete-time higher-order hidden Markov model (HHMM). We interpret the states of the HHMM as unobserv...

Trophoblasts are fetal epithelial cells that form an interface between mother and offspring. To evaluate their anti-inflammatory capacity, we tested the hypothesis that trophoblasts deactivate neutrophils using single-cell assays. Several biophysical (Ca2+ and NAD(P)H oscillation frequency) and physiological (oxidant production) markers of activated neutrophils revert to a nonactivated phenotyp...

Telomere length has a biological link to cancer, with excessive telomere shortening leading to genetic instability and resultant malignant transformation. Telomere length is heritable and genetic variants determining telomere length have been identified. Telomere biology has been implicated in the development of hematological malignancies (HMs), therefore, closer examination of telomere length ...

A 45-year-old male patient was evaluated because of involuntary spasms in his right masseter muscle. Five years before, following an acute respiratory insufficiency which required endotracheal intubation, he had presented with dysarthria, bilateral (predominantly right) supranuclear facial and hypoglossal palsy, and inability to achieve tongue protrusion, difficulty in chewing and bilateral dys...

Late leaf spot (LLS) is one of the most serious foliar diseases affecting peanut worldwide leading to huge yield loss. To understand the genetic basis of LLS and assist breeding in the future, we conducted quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis for LLS and three plant-type-related traits including height of main stem (HMS), length of the longest branch (LLB) and total number of branches (TNB)....