RATIONALE Families of ICU patients may be at risk for increased psychological morbidity due to end-of-life decision making. The identification of chart-based quality indicators of palliative care that predict family satisfaction with decision making may help to guide interventions to improve decision making and family outcomes. OBJECTIVE To determine patient and family characteristics and cha...

REAu4Al8Si (RE = Ce-Gd, and Yb) is the end member of a new series of intermetallic structures grown from aluminium flux; this new structure contains thick AuAl2 slabs and the ytterbium analog exhibits mixed-valent behavior.

An end-member selection method for spectral unmixing that is based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is developed in this paper. The algorithm uses the K-means clustering algorithm and a method of dynamic selection of end-members subsets to find the appropriate set of end-members for a given set of multispectral images. The proposed algorithm has been successfully applied to test image sets ...

A method is described that uses target transformation factor analysis techniques to determine the number of independently variable components and recover the spectral end-members present in a set of mixed spectra. These techniques were tested on two sets of synthetic spectral mixtures and several subsets of Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) data. In both synthetic mixture sets, the correct nu...

Article history: Received 14 April 2010 Received in revised form 2 October 2010 Accepted 4 October 2010 Available online 16 November 2010 Editor: J. Fein

Post-polymerization CuAAC reactions are used to ‘click’ stimuli-cleavable triazole end-caps onto self-immolative poly(ethyl glyoxylate).

[1] Multiple end-member spectral mixture analysis (MESMA) was applied to the Clementine UVVIS global 1 km multispectral data set, and the resulting highland material fraction image was used to investigate highland contamination of mare surfaces by impact cratering. MESMA decomposes each pixel with the number of end-members fewer than the number of the spectral bands of Clementine UVVIS data. Th...