OBJECTIVE Using electronic rather than paper-based record systems improves clinicians' information retrieval from patient narratives. However, few studies address how data should be organized for this purpose. Information retrieval from clinical narratives containing free text involves two steps: searching for a labeled segment and reading its content. The authors hypothesized that physicians c...

Issue of the iterated filters in the directional filter bank is examined. The result is called pyramidal directional filter bank PDFB. Recently.NDFB with a new multiscale pyramid, we propose the surfacelet transform, which. A Frequency partitioning of the directional filter bank with 3 levels.In this paper, multiscale directional filter bank MDFB is investigated for texture characterization. Te...

A parallel distributed approach to refine a mesh while preserving the curvature of a target geometry is presented. Our approach starts by generating a coarse linear mesh of the computational domain. Second, the former coarse mesh is curved to match the curvature of the target geometry. Then, the curved mesh is partitioned and the subdomain meshes are sent to the slaves. Finally, the curved elem...

Scott Wait and Heath McNally La Plata County is currently undergoing rapid population growth. It is estimated that the county increased in population by 14% from 1990 to 1994, growing from 32,284 to 36,887 people. The projected population by the year 2000 is 44,556, a 38% increase from 1990. With this increased growth comes pressure to develop more land and natural resources throughout the coun...

The information divergence of a probability measure P from an exponential family E over a nite set is de ned as in mum of the divergences of P from Q subject to Q ∈ E . All directional derivatives of the divergence from E are explicitly found. To this end, behaviour of the conjugate of a log-Laplace transform on the boundary of its domain is analysed. The rst order conditions for P to be a maxi...

where [g]j,l=1 defines a C ∞-smooth Riemannian metric and b = (b1, ..., bm) and q are, correspondingly, C∞-smooth complex-valued 1-form and function on M . σ is a C∞-smooth complex-valued function on ∂M and ∂ν stands for the normal derivative. Let Rλ be the resolvent of (1), (2) which is meromorphic for λ ∈ C (see Sect. 3 and [1]) and let Rλ(x, y) be its Schwartz kernel. A natural analog of the...

In this paper we determine the number of the meaningful compositions of higher order of the differential operations and Gateaux directional derivative.

The characteristics of goal-directed actions tend to resemble those of previously executed actions, but it is unclear whether such effects depend strictly on action history, or also reflect context-dependent processes related to predictive motor planning. Here we manipulated the time available to initiate movements after a target was specified, and studied the effects of predictable movement se...

We consider spherical data Xi noised by a random rotation εi ∈ SO(3) so that only the sample Zi = εiXi, i = 1, . . . , N is observed. We define a nonparametric test procedure to distinguish H0 : ”the density f of Xi is the uniform density f0 on the sphere” and H1 : ”‖f − f0‖2 ≥ CψN and f is in a Sobolev space with smoothness s”. For a noise density fε with smoothness index ν, we show that an ad...

Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) is widely used in soil and rock engineering. In a variety of conditions, it is necessary to estimate the torque required for performing the reaming operation. Nevertheless, there is not presently a convenient method to accomplish this task. In this paper, to overcome this difficulty based on the basic concepts of rock engineering systems (RES), a model for ...