While it is widely written that advanced clinical information systems can help healthcare organizations reduce adverse medical events and increase patient safety, Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) has proven that it truly does. ARMC chose Eclipsys’ Sunrise Clinical Manager for its ability to provide knowledge-based clinical decision support and its alert capabilities at the time of order ...

Railway transportation plays an important role in the economic development of Iran. National Iranian Railways includes fifteen regional railways which operate independently, but under the supervision of National Iranian Railways Company. Evaluating the efficiency of regional railways is an important issue in Iran and is one of the bases for budget and resource allocation for further developmen...

Multi-regional clinical trials have been widely used for efficient global new drug developments. Due to potential heterogeneity of patient populations, it is critical to evaluate consistency of treatment effects across different regions in a multi-regional trial in order to determine the applicability of the overall treatment effect to the patients in individual regions. Quan et al. (2010) prop...

Chemotaxis allows bacteria to colonize their environment more efficiently and to find optimal growth conditions, and is consequently under strong evolutionary selection. Theoretical and experimental analyses of bacterial chemotaxis suggested that the pathway has been evolutionarily optimized to produce robust output under conditions of such physiological perturbations as stochastic intercellula...

Vaught’s conjecture says that for any countable (complete) first-order theory T, the number of non-isomorphic countable models of T is either countable or 2, where ω is the first infinite cardinal. Vaught’s conjecture for ω-stable theories of modules was proved by Garavaglia [6, Theorem 6]. Buechler proved that Vaught’s conjecture is correct for modules of U-rank 1 [2]. It has been shown that V...

is the natural combination of these equations, describing the free motion of an ndimensional surface in a non-Euclidean space; for instance, the motion of a string that is constrained to lie on a sphere would be given (at least to first approximation) as a wave map. As such, wave maps are one of the fundamental equations used to describe geometric motion, although they are not as well understoo...

1 1 Introduction In these lectures I will show, through three examples, how current lattice calculations are able to tell us interesting things about the continuum physics of non-Abelian gauge theories. My first topic concerns the glueball spectrum. The physics question here is: where, in the experimentally determined hadron spectrum, are the glueballs hiding? I will first summarise what lattic...

The degree distribution of the Internet topology is considered as one of its main properties. However, it is only known through a measurement procedure which gives a biased estimate. This measurement may in first approximation be modeled by a BFS (Breadth-First Search) tree. We explore here our ability to infer the type (Poisson or power-law) of the degree distribution from such a limited knowl...

A topological space X is called a CO space, if every closed subset of X is homeomorphic to some clopen subset of X. Every ordinal with its order topology is a CO space. This work gives a complete classification of CO spaces which are continuous images of compact ordered spaces. 1 AMS Subject Classification 2000: Primary 06E05. Secondary 54G12, 06A05