Intelligence analysis is fundamentally an exercise in expert judgment made under conditions of uncertainty. These judgments are used to inform consequential decisions. Following the major intelligence failure that led 2003 war Iraq, organizations implemented policies for communicating probability their assessments. Virtually all chose convey using standardized linguistic lexicons which ordered ...

crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever is a fatal viral disease that occurs in some parts of africa, asia, eastern europe and the middle-east. primarily it is a zoonosis but can be seen sporadically in humans. recently outbreaks have been reported from pakistan, afghanistan, saudi arabia, united arab emirates and iran. in this retrospective study, we evaluated the efficacy of oral ribavirin in the tre...

OBJECTIVES We studied the outcomes of pediatric patients diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and their relation to epidemiologic and echocardiographic variables at the time of presentation. BACKGROUND The outcome of pediatric DCM patients ranges from recovery to a 50% to 60% chance of death within five years of diagnosis. The impact of heart transplantation and other emerging therapie...

Background: Acute kidney injury secondary to cast nephropathy is a common complication of multiple myeloma. Extracorporeal light chain elimination by high cut-off haemodialysis has been described as an adjuvant to effective chemotherapy to limit free light chain toxicity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of high cut-off haemodialysis and bortezomib-based chemotherapy on rena...

BACKGROUND We created a prediction model to be used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) attempts as a decision tool to omit futile CPR attempts and to save resources. METHODS In this post hoc analysis, we assessed predictive parameters for neurological recovery after successful CPR. The original study was designed as a blinded, randomized, prospective, controlled, multicenter clinical tria...

In this paper, we investigate the optimum way to allocate redundancy of finite-length nested codes for modern nonvolatile memories suffering from both permanent defects and transient errors (erasures or random errors). A nested coding approach such as partitioned codes can handle both permanent defects and transient errors by using two parts of redundancy: 1) redundancy to deal with permanent d...

We study the heavy hitters and related sparse recovery problems in the low-failure probability regime. This regime is not well-understood, and has only been studied for non-adaptive schemes. The main previous work is on sparse recovery by Gilbert et al. (ICALP’13). We recognize an error in their analysis, improve their results, and contribute new non-adaptive and adaptive sparse recovery algori...