The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of medication errors happened during the preparation and administration of intravenous (IV) drugs. This study was designed as prospective cross-sectional evaluations by direct unconcealed observation in a setting consisted of orthopedic, general surgery and gastroenterology wards of a teaching hospital. Participants were those patients hospit...

Integration and analysis of data from different sources have to deal with several problems resulting from potential heterogeneities. The activities addressing these problems are called data preparation and are supported by various available tools. However, these tools process mostly in a batch-like manner not supporting the iterative and explorative nature of the integration and analysis proces...

DIGITALI electronic computers are finding increasing applications in the analysis of medical and biologic data. The principal advantages are high speed, relatively great accuracy, and extreme versatility, especially for analytic operations that are too tedious and time-consuming for routine clinical use. Large amounts of data can be processed on a completely objective basis in a relatively shor...

We describe the use of XML tokenisation, tagging and mark-up tools to prepare a corpus for parsing. Our techniques are generally applicable but here we focus on parsing Medline abstracts with the ANLT wide-coverage grammar. Hand-crafted grammars inevitably lack coverage but many coverage failures are due to inadequacies of their lexicons. We describe a method of gaining a degree of robustness b...

Missing values and outliers are frequently encountered while collecting data. The presence of missing values reduces the data available to be analyzed, compromising the statistical power of the study, and eventually the reliability of its results. In addition, it causes a significant bias in the results and degrades the efficiency of the data. Outliers significantly affect the process of estima...

The web has evolved from a technological platform to a real social milieu thereby becoming a continuous source of Big Social Data (BSD). BSD is characterized by a combination of factual content such as the coordinates of a restaurant, the content of a webpage or the title of a movie, behavior data such as exchanges between social relationships, as well as subjective data such as users’ opinions...

An increasing effort has being devoted to researching on the field of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS’s). A wide variety of artificial intelligence techniques and paradigms have been applied to this challenging task in order to identify anomalous situations taking place within a computer network. Among these techniques is the neural network approach whose models (or most of them) have some dif...

Experience in digital terrain modelling has shown, that analysis and preparation of the primary data is of great importance both for the productivity and the quality of DTM modelling. The paper presents a semi-automatic procedure to analyze the primary data in a numerical and graphical way. After gross error detection and data structuring using a triangular irregular network (TIN) the density a...

Background and Aim: Preparation of tooth structure by laser systems produces a surface with different characteristics. Therefore, selecting an appropriate bonding system is necessary to achieve the maximum bond strength. The aim of this study was to compare the bond strength of Adper Single Bond 2 adhesive and Single Bond Univer-sal to dentin prepared by bur or laser. Materials and Methods: ...