Behaviour norms are considered for decision trees which allow both objective probabilities and uncertain states of the world with unknown probabilities. Terminal nodes have consequences in a given domain. Behaviour is required to be consistent in subtrees. Consequentialist behaviour, by definition, reveals a consequence choice function independent of the structure of the decision tree. It impli...

Let P be a set of n points in the plane. For a line L ⊂ R, we can project the points P orthogonally onto L, which we denote by πL(P ). Imagine that the line L is a graduated line, that is, a line decomposed into line segments (cells) of length one. For a cell c ⊂ L, let Pop(P, c) be the population of the cell c after the projection, that is Pop(P, c) = |{p ∈ P |πL(p) ∈ c}|. For a graduated line...

The aim of this study was to assess knowledge, attitudes, and proficiency in relation to organ donation among staff members of intensive care units (ICUs) in donor hospitals, and possibly identify areas for improvement. The investigation was carried out as a collaboration between the transplant center and appointed key persons in all 17 ICUs in 15 hospitals in northern Denmark. A total of 1168 ...

In March 2009, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) convened a meeting of “policymakers, researchers, and producers of health care data” to “begin developing a strategy to optimize the availability of information and data for enactment and implementation of health care reform.” The needs described by participants were as expected: timely information about “the likely concrete e...

Understanding and using EPDs continues to be a popular topic among cattle producers because of their effectiveness when properly used in genetic selection. Use of EPDs, as with many other standard management tools, is not required to survive in the beef cattle business, but those who do will excel in terms of genetic improvement. With so many traits to monitor in a cow herd, producers should no...

  Introduction: Omp31 is animmunodominant and protective antigen conserved in Brucella species and a good candidate for vaccine design. Material & methods: The present study aimed at in silico design of the truncated Omp31 (TOmp31) using bioinformatic tools and to express the selected form in Escherichia coli (E. coli) Results and conclusion: Various bioinformatically calculated scores for the ...

capecitabine therapy between January 2005 and February 2009, who subsequently received vitamin E with or without capecitabine treatment modification. The median time to first onset of HFS was 7.3 months (range 4.1–9.6). The initial starting dose of vitamin E for treatment of HFS was 100 mg/day, and the median dose of vitamin E was 200 mg (range 100–400 mg/day). Vitamin E application had a marke...