The authors discuss the issues and benefits of collaborative writing in journalistic education, comparing texts written by students different conditions: group collaboration, individually after prewriting discussion, without any collaboration. We used a survey for collecting both quantitative qualitative data. participants were 21 second year 15 third-year students, who wrote 18 fiction stories...

The optimal dialysate sodium concentration for chronic hemodialysis patients remains controversial. Conflicting data from small observational studies and large cohort study have not convinced nephrologists to choose either a high or low dialysate. Despite lack of evidence, I would prescribe individualized concentrations with risk hypertension volume overload, aligning the patients’ predialysis ...

The Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS'' or "Department'') modifies certain standards in the Rule entitled "Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information'' ("Privacy Rule''). The Privacy Rule implements the privacy requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The purpose of these...

The paper justifies the necessity to use the hand writer identification using the feed forward neural networks. Identifying the authors of a handwritten sample using automatic image-based processing methods is an interesting pattern recognition problem with direct applicability in the legal and historic documents. Leading a worrisome life among the harder forms of biometrics, the identification...