Automated website synthesis is more straightforward than automated program synthesis in artificial intelligence research but can yield clear benefits for large groups of people. We briefly describe our current work and approach to building websites for academic research and aviation accident reporting. Automated website synthesis is applicable to many situations which require efficiency in crea...

BACKGROUND Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) duty hour restrictions have led to the widespread implementation of non-house staff services in academic medical centers, yet little is known about the quality and efficiency of patient care on such services. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality and efficiency of patient care on a physician assistant/hospitalist service compa...

Citation patterns in many academic disciplines have displayed a pattern of connections similar to those observed in many other different real-world contexts, such as links on the world-wide web. The various models that have been proposed to generate such networks, generically called "preferential attachment models", rely solely on random link formation and copying and do not take into account r...

A ttending surgeons performing concurrent operations in 2 separate rooms with qualified surgical trainees assigned to the individual rooms constitutes a longstanding common practice in academic medical centers. This practice has been increasingly questioned and at times reflexively changed without full consideration of the relevant issues. Although there are minimal data specifically defining t...

BACKGROUND Sipuleucel-T, an autologous cellular immunotherapy, is approved for the treatment of certain patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Sipuleucel-T is the first personalized treatment for prostate cancer to be manufactured using the immune system of each individual patient. Patient preparation and compliance are critical because patients undergo serial le...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS There is an increasing demand for interventional endoscopic services and the need to develop efficient endoscopic units. The aim of this study was to analyze performance data and define metrics to improve efficiency in a single academic interventional endoscopy center. ] PATIENTS AND METHODS The prospective operations performance data (6-month period) of our interven...

During the last two decades the European airport industry is liberalised and turned to competitive market environment. This fact attracts an increasing scientific and practical interest to analysis of airport efficiency and its determinants, as well as different aspects of airport competition. This paper contains a critical review of existing researches in these two areas – airport efficiency a...

nergy-efficient near-threshold design has been proposed to increase energy efficiency across a wide range of applications. This article first provides a background motivating near-threshold and how it differs from super-threshold and subthreshold operation. Next, state-of-the-art near-threshold techniques are summarized that help overcome barriers to near-threshold adoption, namely high variati...