A high degree of topical diversity is often considered to be an important characteristic of interesting text documents. A recent proposal for measuring topical diversity identifies three elements for assessing diversity: words, topics, and documents as collections of words. Topic models play a central role in this approach. Using standard topic models for measuring diversity of documents is sub...

3 To my parents, for their endless support 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to acknowledge the excellent the guidance and support of the committee chair, would also like to acknowledge Diego Arguea and Tom Hiles, for their significant collaboration in this research. In addition, I would like to thank Matthew O'Brien, Darrell Schneider, and the City of Gainesville for their support during the fiel...

Neil Winterburn Peggy Gregory Dan Fitton School of Computing School of Computing School of Computing Engineering & Physical Science Engineering & Physical Science Engineering & Physical Science University of Central Lancashire University of Central Lancashire University of Central Lancashire Preston, PR1 2HE, Preston, PR1 2HE, Preston, PR1 2HE, [email protected] [email protected] dbf...

OBJECTIVES Using the findings of incident investigations to improve patient safety management is well-established and mandatory under Swedish law. This study seeks to identify the mechanisms behind successful implementation of the recommendations of incident investigations. SETTING This study was based in a university hospital in southern Sweden. PARTICIPANTS A sample of 55 incident investi...

I give a brief review of final state interactions in meson decays. I describe possible effects of FSI in K, D and B systems, paying particular attention to the description of the heavy meson decays. Available theoretical methods for dealing with the effects of FSI are discussed.

This study aimed at analyzing the family participation in the premature assistance in a university hospital neonatal ICU. Data were collected from the participant observation. Results showed that despite of the mother's presence in the daily life of their premature children placed in a hospital, family isn't inserted in the work process and mothers are the only ones who take part of the cares. ...

BACKGROUND The occurrence of communicable diseases (CD) depends on exposure to contagious persons. The effects of exposure to CD are delayed in time and contagious persons remain contagious for several days during which their contagiousness varies. Moreover when multiple exposures occur, it is difficult to know which exposure is associated with the CD. METHODS A statistical model at the indiv...

Introduction / objectives Nurse uniforms can act as a reservoir of infections, with the areas around the pockets, cuffs and aprons the most contaminated. The aim of this study is compare the contamination of Standard nurse’s uniform consisted of a dress, pinafore apron with the “scrub dress” type of uniform, as well as to measure the influence of the number of shifts as uniform was used in its ...

We report the results of a randomized trial to assess the impact of an innovative ethics curriculum on the knowledge and confidence of 85 medical house officers in a university hospital programme, as well as their responses to a simulated clinical case. Twenty-five per cent of the house officers received a lecture series (Limited Intervention or LI), 25 per cent received lectures and case confe...