A microcomputer program has been designed to provide comprehensive assistance to the clinician in prescribing parenteral nutrition in children of all ages. It is implemented on a fully portable, independent machine that can be taken to the bedside anywhere in the hospital. The user is guided through a standardised prescribing process based on a well tried protocol and taking into account the pa...

With the high number of sequences and structures streaming in from genomic projects, there is a need for more powerful and sophisticated annotation tools. Most problematic of the annotation efforts is predicting gene and protein function. Over the past few years there has been considerable progress in automated protein function prediction, using a diverse set of methods. Nevertheless, no single...

This article outlines conceptualization and implementation of an intelligent system capable of extracting knowledge from databases. Use of hybridized features of both the Rough and Fuzzy Set theory render the developed system flexibility in dealing with discreet as well as continuous datasets. A raw data set provided to the system, is initially transformed in a computer legible format followed ...

In this paper, a new method for the identification and removal of image artefacts caused by linear motion blur is presented. By transforming the image into the frequency domain and computing its logarithmic power spectrum, the algorithm identifies the parameters describing the camera motion that caused the blur. The spectrum is analysed using an adjusted version of the Radon transform and a str...

Students still take class notes using pencil and paper — although digital documents are more legible, easier to search in and easier to edit — in part because of the lack of software to support note-taking. Class notes are characterized by free spatial organization, many small chunks of text, and a dense mix of text and graphic elements. These characteristics imply that a note-taking system sho...

This work studies the dynamic modeling method for a service robot with Omnidirectional Mobile ManipulatorS configuration. Based on screw theory, Lie group notations, reciprocal product of twist and wrench, and Jourdain principle, the robot’s motion equations including the whole body manipulation are formulated with left invariant representation. A legible and canonical dynamic model representin...

Recently, many pen-based devices have enabled people to input digital ink naturally. Often, there is smear and correction when writing. This not only makes the document dirty and look unpleasant, but also affects the handwriting recognition when recognition is called for. As the first paper to address the ink cleanup problem, we present our ink cleanup system that removes the smear and correcti...

Mirror writing is defined as the production of individual letters or whole words in reversed form, such that they become easily legible when viewed with a mirror. Mirror writing is most commonly characteristic of young children who are in the early stages of language acquisition (Schott, 2007), and has also been identified in certain cases of brain damage in adults (Paradowski & Ginzburg, 1971)...

The effectiveness of an infectious diseases (ID) consultation is dependent on adherence to the recommendations. To delineate the factors that affect adherence, we conducted a prospective cohort study of 465 consultations at 2 academic institutions in which we evaluated the consultation process, patient and consultant characteristics, types of recommendations, and compliance with recommendations...

At the Mayo Health System in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, there are >1000 infant total parenteral nutrition (TPN) orders placed per year. It is the most complicated order that the pharmacy fills, so a recent peer-review article in Pediatrics moved a group of us to action at our center to buy or develop a TPN calculator. We did this because no stand-alone commercial calculators were available to us, and...