INTRODUCTION While the readmission rate from community hospitals is known, the factors affecting it are not. Our aim was to determine the factors predicting unplanned readmissions from community hospitals (CHs) to acute hospitals (AHs). MATERIALS AND METHODS This was an observational prospective cohort study, involving 842 patients requiring post-acute rehabilitation in 2 CHs admitted from 3 ...

1 INRIA, UR Sophia Antipolis project ACACIA 2004, route des lucioles BP93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France {khaled.khelif, rose.dieng}@sophia.inria.fr 2 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi 3 Ontology GALEN. http://www.opengalen.org, 2001 Abstract. We present the interest of the Semantic Web techniques, particularly semantic annotation, in the biochip domain. We propose a semi-aut...

In modern fundamental theories there is consideration of higher dimensions, often in the context of what can be written as a Schrödinger equation. Thus, the energetics of bound states in different dimensions is of interest. By considering the quantum square well in continuous D dimensions, it is shown that there is always a bound state for 0 < D ≤ 2. This binding is complete for D → 0 and expon...

A. Bombelli, M. Henry, S. Castaldi, S. Adu-Bredu, A. Arneth, A. de Grandcourt, E. Grieco, W. L. Kutsch, V. Lehsten, A. Rasile, M. Reichstein, K. Tansey, U. Weber, and R. Valentini Department of Forest Environment and Resources (DISAFRI), University of Tuscia, via S. Camillo de Lellis, 01100 Viterbo, Italy Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD, UR SeqBio, SupAgro, Bat. 12, 2 place Via...

In the recent papers [1, 2] the conventional uncertainty relation (UR) of Robertson [5] (which includes the Heisenberg and Schrödinger UR [4] as its particular cases) have been extended to all characteristic coefficients of the uncertainty matrix [2] and to the case of several states [1]. In this letter we present three remarks on these extended characteristic URs. The first remark refers to th...

I point out that if one defines the operator UR(t) as done by M. Znojil in his reply [arXiv:0711.0514v1] to my comment [arXiv:0711.0137v1] and also accepts the validity of the defining relation of UR(t) as given in his paper [arXiv:0710.5653v1], one finds that the time-evolution of the associated quantum system is not governed by the Schrödinger equation for the Hamiltonian operator H but an op...

Healthcare workers (HCWs) in low-incidence settings are often serially tested for latent TB infection (LTBI) with the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT) assay, which exhibits frequent conversions and reversions. The clinical impact of such variability on serial testing remains unknown. We used a microsimulation Markov model that accounts for major sources of variability to project diagnostic out...