Results. Four hundred and seventy-five patients (11.2%) died in hospital after discharge from the ICU. Increasing age, time in hospital before intensive care admission, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score, and discharge Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS) score were independent risk factors for death after intensive care discharge. Three hundred and ei...

We also found the positive predictive values of serum calcium, PaO2, base excess levels, BISAP and APACHE II scores, and EPIC score were low. The reason might be the study design itself. This study aimed to assess and compare the ability of laboratory markers and scoring systems to early predict organ failure. In order to make sure “early prediction”, we made up strictly “Exclusion criteria”. W...

The World-Wide Web is a huge network of billions of workstations and this network contains billions of web pages containing information on a wide variety of topics. There are a lot of topics discussed by people, opinions and suggestions shared on various social networking sites that the users are interested in. Low precision and low recall still exists in the current search engines. So a search...

Apache Cassandra is a NoSql database offering high scalability and availability. Among with its competitors, e.g. Hbase, SympleDB and BigTable, Cassandra is a widely used platform for big data systems. Tuning the performance of those systems is a complex task and there is a growing demand for autonomic management solutions. In this paper we present an energy-aware adaptation model built from a ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Realising the utility of scoring systems in mortality prediction of critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs), studies worldwide have expressed a need to validate the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score for databases of respective countries. Literature available in this area in the Indian context is scanty. The present s...

In today’s cloud computing applications it is common practice for clients to outsource their data to cloud storage providers. That data may contain sensitive information, which the client wishes to protect against this untrustworthy environment. Confidentiality can be preserved by the use of encryption. Unfortunately that makes it difficult to perform efficient searches. There are a couple of d...