OBJECTIVE To design a document model that provides reliable and efficient access to clinical information in patient reports for a broad range of clinical applications, and to implement an automated method using natural language processing that maps textual reports to a form consistent with the model. METHODS A document model that encodes structured clinical information in patient reports whil...

The rapid increase in the number of genetically modified (GM) varieties has led to a demand for high-throughput methods to detect genetically modified organisms (GMOs). We describe a new dynamic array-based high throughput method to simultaneously detect 48 targets in 48 samples on a Fludigm system. The test targets included species-specific genes, common screening elements, most of the Chinese...

Two new 5-oxomilbemycins, 27-aldehyde-5-oxomilbemycin β12 (1) and 2-hydroxymilbemycin K (2), were isolated from a genetically engineered strain Streptomyces bingchenggensis BCJ60. Their structures were determined by comprehensive analyses of its 1 H and 13 C NMR, COSY, HMQC, and HMBC spectroscopic, HRESI-MS mass spectrometric and comparison with data from the literature. Preliminary studies sho...

Recall latency, recall accuracy rate, and recall confidence were examined in free recall as a function of recall output serial position using a modified Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm to test a strength-based theory against the dual-retrieval process theory of recall output sequence. The strength theory predicts the item output sequence to be in the descending order of memory strength. The d...

The drawing of frequency-path (F-P) models of optical beams is an approach for nonlinearity analysis in nano-metrology systems and sensors based on the laser interferometers. In this paper, the frequency-path models of four nano-metrology laser interferometry systems are designed, analyzed and simulated, including ...

For a family of discrete-time systems with input and output and uncertain terms, a new interval observer is designed. Its main feature is that it is composed of two copies of classical observers, whose corresponding error equations are in general not nonnegative. It is shown how this interval observer can be modified to cope with the presence of nonlinear terms and disturbances and how asymptot...

Introduction Inadequate cardiac output is associated with poor outcome following cardiac surgery and is generally modified by use of inotropic agents, volume resuscitation and epicardial pacing. Although temporary epicardial pacing is frequently utilised post-cardiac surgery, the potential impact of determining the optimal R-R interval in the critically ill has largely been ignored. Echocardiog...

In [1] a interconnected system consisted of two sub-systems is studied, which leads to a generalized small-gain theorem, which gives the express of the gain of the output of the interconnected system w.r.t external input signals. However, sometimes we are interested in the gain from the input to the output of each sub-system. Such a result will offer more flexibility in control synthesis. For t...

Biosafety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and their derivatives is still a major topic in the agenda of government and societies worldwide. The aim of this review is to bring into light that data that supported the decision taken back in 1998 as an exercise to stimulate criticism from the scientific community for upcoming discussions and to avoid emotional and senseless arguments that ...

This paper presents a modified current differencing transconductance amplifier (MCDTA) and a MCDTA based quadrature oscillator. The oscillator is current-mode and provides current output from high output impedance terminals. The circuit uses only one MCDTA and two grounded capacitors, and is easy to be integrated. Its oscillation frequency can be tuned electronically by tuning bias currents of ...