BACKGROUND The global burden of atrial fibrillation (AF) is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS We systematically reviewed population-based studies of AF published from 1980 to 2010 from the 21 Global Burden of Disease regions to estimate global/regional prevalence, incidence, and morbidity and mortality related to AF (DisModMR software). Of 377 potential studies identified, 184 met prespecified eli...

Context: For more than four decades it has been intuitively accepted that user involvement (UI) during system development lifecycle leads to system success. However when the researchers have evaluated the user involvement and system success (UI-SS) relationship empirically, the results were not always positive. Objective: Our objective was to explore the UI-SS relationship by synthesizing the r...

where α = max(|D(ui)|, |D(uj)|)+ ; is a small positive number. For notational simplicity, we denoteD(xi) = D(ui)xi, V (xi, xj) = V (ui, uj)xixj , V̂ (xi, xj) = V̂ (ui, uj)xixj , andR(xi, xj) = R(ui, uj)xixj . Lemma 1. If X∗ is the global optimum of E(X),R(xi, xj) < To,∀ xi ∼ xj , xi, xj ∈ X∗. Proof. If there exists a pair xi ∼ xj , xi, xj ∈ X∗ such thatR(xi, xj) ≥ To, then E(X∗) > 0 = E(0) (5) wh...

This study examined to what extent nurses recognize urinary incontinence (UI) in elderly hospital patients, what UI interventions nurses realize, and if elderly inpatients are willing to raise the topic during their hospital stay. A convenience sample of 78 elderly inpatients in a Swiss hospital were screened for UI and asked if they were willing to be questioned about UI during hospitalisation...

Although many methods have been proposed, model-based development methods have only to some extent been adopted for UI design. In particular, they are not easy to combine with user-centered design methods. In this paper, we present a hybrid UI modelling and GUI prototyping tool, which is designed to fit better with IS development and UI design traditions. The tool includes a diagram editor for ...

Let D(U1, U2, ..., Uk) be an oriented k -partite graph with |Ui| = ni, 1 ≤ i ≤ k. Then, the score of a vertex ui in Ui is defined by aui (or simply ai ) = ∑k t=1, t 6=i nt+d + ui −d − ui , where d+ui and d − ui are respectively the outdegree and indegree of ui. The set A of distinct scores of the vertices of D(U1, U2, ..., Uk) is called its score set. In this paper, we prove that if a1 is a non...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to investigate whether caffeine intake is associated with urinary incontinence (UI) and quality of life (QOL) in Korean postmenopausal women. MATERIALS AND METHODS We included 4,028 postmenopausal women who had participated in the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey IV (KNHANES IV). From the KNHANES questionnaire data, we ascerta...

Most graphical user interface (GUI) libraries forbid accessing UI elements from threads other than the UI event loop thread. Violating this requirement leads to a program crash or an inconsistent UI. Unfortunately, such errors are all too common in GUI programs. We present a polymorphic type and effect system that prevents non-UI threads from accessing UI objects or invoking UI-thread-only meth...