OBJECTIVE With the coming of the laparoscopy, multiple surgical techniques have been developed that have revolutionized the urological practice. The laparoscopic pyeloplasty has been one of the techniques most developed. However, there are very few training models that permit the surgeon to decrease the learning curve. An animal model of training for the laparoscopic pyeloplasty technique is de...

A new method to deal with an unexpected harmful variability (noise) in speech during the operation of the system is reviewed. The fundamental idea is to derive in the training phase statistics of the system output for the data on which the system was trained and adaptively modify the system so that statistics derived during the operation are similar. Multiple processing streams are formed by ex...

A new method to deal with an unexpected harmful variability (noise) in speech during the operation of the system is reviewed. The fundamental idea is to derive in the training phase statistics of the system output for the data on which the system was trained and adaptively modify the system so that statistics derived during the operation are similar. Multiple processing streams are formed by ex...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) is associated with a significant learning curve. We report the results of a systematic training program from a high-volume bariatric center measuring the outcome by comparing the results with data from a consecutive series of 1000 fast-track LRYGB. METHODS Using a stepwise training program, the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass operation was div...

In a memory-guided drawing task under blindfolded conditions, we have recently used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to demonstrate that the primary visual cortex (V1) may operate as the visuo-spatial buffer, or "sketchpad," for working memory. The results implied, however, a modality-independent or amodal form of its operation. In the present study, to validate the role of V1 in no...

Unmanned Air Vehicles are aircraft designed for autonomous operation in realistic environments. The condition of autonomy restricts major mission planning and flight control to on-board processing. This paper presents a novel control architecture, CEDAR, that is structured from reactive controllers to satisfy real-time operation. Adaptive circuitry provides for compensation of design errors and...

Extracting information from unstructured clinical narratives is valuable for many clinical applications. Although natural Language Processing (NLP) methods have been profoundly studied in electronic medical records (EMR), few studies have explored NLP in extracting information from Chinese clinical narratives. In this study, we report the development and evaluation of extracting tumor-related i...

Für den Bereich der Augenheilkunde haben wir ein webbasiertes Trainingssystem entwickelt, welches die Studierenden optimal auf das OP-Praktikum und das abschließende Instrumentieren einer Katarakt-Operation vorbereiten soll. Das Trainingssystem vermittelt neben den Grundlagen zur Katarakt-Operation auch die notwendigen prä-, intraund postoperativen Untersuchungen, Arbeitsschritte, die Instrumen...

An outstanding human resources system is one of the important competitive factors in modern enterprises. Employee training is a frequently used method for promoting the working capabilities for better human resources. Employee training programs cultivate personnel capabilities for enterprise operation. The training effect can be dramatically enhanced if curriculum is well designed and arranged....