Post-registration studies describe parameters of real-life clinical practice such as the treated population, conditions of treatment initiation, treatment duration, adherence, associated benefits/risks as well as the impact on treatment strategies, healthcare procedures and on public health. The results of these studies are used in particular for re-evaluation, re-registration or in application...

It is obvious that combination of several classifiers might improve overall classification performance. In this paper, on the contrary to the ordinary approach of utilising all neural networks available to make the committee decision, we propose to create adaptive committees, which are specific for each input data point. A prediction neural network is used to identify classifiers to be fused fo...

Conventional wisdom suggests that CEO membership of the compensation committee is an open invitation to rent extraction by self-serving executives. However, using data from New Zealand – where CEO compensation committee membership is relatively common – we find that annual pay increments for CEOs with this apparent advantage averaged six percentage points less than those enjoyed by other CEOs d...

We propose extensions of the classical JSM-method and the Naı̈ve Bayesian classifier for the case of triadic relational data. We performed a series of experiments on various types of data (both real and synthetic) to estimate quality of classification techniques and compare them with other classification algorithms that generate hypotheses, e.g. ID3 and Random Forest. In addition to classificati...

Gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer and third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, with half of these occurring in Eastern Asia [1]. There are two major classification systems currently used, the Japanese classification and the system developed jointly by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). The Japanese classificat...

hospital ethics committees (hecs) help clinicians deal with the ethical challenges which have been raised during clinical practice. a comprehensive literature review was conducted to provide a historical background of the development of hecs internationally and describe their functions and practical challenges of their day to day work. this is the first part of a comprehensive literature review...