BACKGROUND Systematic reviews offer the most reliable and valid support for health policy decision-making, patient information, and guideline development. However, they are labor intensive and frequently take longer than 1 year to complete. Consequently, they often do not meet the needs of those who need to make decisions quickly. Rapid reviews have therefore become a pragmatic alternative to s...

Abbreviation Completion is a novel technique to improve the efficiency of code-writing by supporting code completion of multiple keywords based on non-predefined abbreviated input—a different approach from conventional code completion that finds one keyword at a time based on an exact character match. Abbreviated input is expanded into keywords by a Hidden Markov Model learned from a corpus of ...

We address the problem of improving the efficiency of natural language text input under degraded conditions (for instance, on mobile computing devices or by disabled users), by taking advantage of the informational redundancy in natural language. Previous approaches to this problem have been based on the idea of prediction of the text, but these require the user to take overt action to verify o...

Individual cellular automata rules are attractive models for a range of biological and physical self-assembling systems. While coexpression and coevolution are common in such systems, ensembles of cellular automata rules remain poorly understood. Here we report the first known analysis of the equally weighted ensemble of all elementary cellular automata (ECA) rules. Ensemble dynamics reveal per...

measurements of body temperature and local surface temperature , Our primary concern was acceptance by the patient. As mentioned in the article, the thermistor probe does behave as an RF receiver and cannot be used during RF exposure. The thermistor was not connected to the electronic circuit until approximately 1 min after each exposure, and the thermistor had a thermal response of T1 /2 of ap...

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