BACKGROUND The United Nations Millennium Development Goals galvanized global efforts to alleviate suffering of the world's poorest people through unprecedented public-private partnerships. Donor aid agencies have demonstrably saved millions of lives that might otherwise have been lost to disease through increased access to quality-assured vaccines and medicines. Yet, the introduction of these h...

This Viewpoint examines the potential benefits that delaying low-risk thyroid surgical procedures may provide for patients as coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic continues to alter treatment timelines.

The escalating student numbers in Moroccan universities have intensified the complexities of managing on-time graduation. In this context, Machine learning methodologies were utilized to analyze patterns and predict graduation rates a comprehensive manner. Our dataset comprised information from 5236 bachelor students who graduated years 2020 2021 Faculty Law, Economic, Social Sciences at Moulay...

Graphic representations that show how the design process changes over the course of solving a problem are powerful tools for researchers. This paper presents three such representations—timelines, cumulative time plots, and progress time plots—and describes how they provide insights into the design process of engineers.

Protocols exist on how to manage STEMI patients, with well-established timelines. There are times when patients present with chest pain, ST segment elevation, and biomarker elevation that are not due to coronary artery disease. These conditions usually present with normal coronary angiography. We present a case that was clinically indistinguishable from STEMI and that was diagnosed with focal m...

In this paper we describe a web service which presents media analysis results as both, structured lists of Words of the Day, as well as visualizations of relevant concepts in their semantic context and concept relevance timelines. Media analysis is based on a daily collection of online newspapers and news services. For each day, this collection is processed by a text mining suite.

Background As a registered clinical trials unit we develop customised databases to collect and store study data and manage clinical trials; these databases need rigorous testing to ensure they function as intended, that data validation is implemented correctly and that study data extracts are complete and accurate. We describe how, with statistical involvement, the testing has been streamlined ...

This paper presents a method for incrementally constructing CEO succession timelines via a cascade of minimally supervised information synthesis components. Results from multiple documents are combined using a CRF fusion method. The system demonstrates that with minimal training on the target domain, the presence of redundant information allows for the synthesis of networks of interrelated fact...