OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY To develop an approach for evaluating quality assurance (QA) activities and programs in health care settings and to test different evaluation methods. DESIGN This was not a formal scientific study, but rather a research and development (R&D) study, which followed the following steps: (1) reviewing the literature; (2) clarifying critical issues for all key aspects of QA ...

Methods Multiparametric MRI combined with both systematic and fusion biopsy is being utilized more frequently worldwide to select patients for focal therapy. The ability to effectively ablate prostate cancer with transrectal HIFU has been demonstrated by numerous publications to date. Early results from focal HIFU series suggest that side effect profiles such as stricture, erectile dysfunction,...

This paper presents implementations of a few selected SQL operations using the CUDA programming framework on the GPU platform. Nowadays, the GPU’s parallel architectures give a high speed-up on certain problems. Therefore, the number of non-graphical problems that can be run and sped-up on the GPU still increases. Especially, there has been a lot of research in data mining on GPUs. In many case...

For feature-based monocular bearing-only SLAM, how to select useful features for SLAM process is crucial. The reason is overwhelming feature number will not only seriously slow down the system but produce erroneous SLAM result due to feature mismatching. In this paper, we propose a novel method for feature selection. The method combines both bottom-up (visual saliency) and top-down (learned obj...

In this paper, a method based on the particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed for pattern classification to select a fuzzy classification system with an appropriate number of fuzzy rules so that the number of incorrectly classified patterns is minimized. In the PSO-based method, each individual in the population is considered to automatically generate a fuzzy classification system for an M...

This paper introduces an Advanced Artificial Potential Field (AAPF) controller which is used to control the robot's motion in cluttered environments. The proposed approach gives less computation and increases the reaction speed of the robot at obstacle avoidance situations. The increasing of robot's reaction speed doesn't affect on the smoothness of its path due to the use of Gen...

It is controversial whether the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is involved in the maintenance of items in working memory or in the selection of responses. We used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to study the performance of a spatial working memory task by humans. We distinguished the maintenance of spatial items from the selection of an item from memory to guide a response. ...

MOTIVATION CRISPR-derived RNA guided endonucleases (RGENs) have been widely used for both gene knockout and knock-in at the level of single or multiple genes. RGENs are now available for forward genetic screens at genome scale, but single guide RNA (sgRNA) selection at this scale is difficult. RESULTS We develop an online tool, Cas-Database, a genome-wide gRNA library design tool for Cas9 nuc...