Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan Department of Geriatric and General Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institut...

An overview The picture that emerges when one looks at the global situation for funding in ecology and evolution is that, while all biological research is suffering, these fields are faring somewhat worse. Surprisingly, this is despite the fact that research in evolution and ecology will be vital if we are to stand a chance of solving the problem of increasing numbers of humans on a planet that...

One key factor contributing to emergency department (ED) overcrowding is prolonged waiting time for admission to inpatient wards, also known as ED boarding time. To gain insights into reducing this waiting time, we study operations in the inpatient wards and their interface with the ED. We focus on understanding the effect of inpatient discharge policies and other operational policies on the ti...

We show that a recent proposal by Nambu to generate a hierarchy among Yukawa couplings in the standard model may be easily implemented in su-perstring models. In such models, two of the main ingredients of the Nambu proposal find a natural explanation: minimising with respect to the Yukawas amounts to a minimisation with respect to the underlying moduli fields and a constraint on the Yukawas of...

We are developing mixed-initiative systems that provide users with flexible control over evolving processes. For such systems to be feasible, both users and automated agents must be able to operate at multiple levels of abstraction. We are designing mixed initiative systems organized around shared task models to achieve this multi-level task sharing. These task models will allow both human and ...

The social and political pressure to change egg production from conventional cage systems to alternative systems has been largely driven by the desire to provide more behavioral freedom for egg-laying hens. However, a change of this magnitude can affect other components of the production system and may result in unintended outcomes. To understand this issue, a Socially Sustainable Egg Productio...

the authors presented a proposal for surgical classification of chronic suppurative otitis media which may be used' for evaluating the surgical outcome of the disease.

Findings Qualitative findings informed changes to fundamental aspects of trial design and proposed outcome measures. Clinicians’ interpretations of the original interventions were variable, and descriptions of current practice/ terminology consistently differed with assumptions made in the grant proposal and commissioned call for research. New outcomes were recognised, prompted by clinicians’/p...

This paper examines jumping emerging patterns with negation (JEPNs), i.e. JEPs that can contain negated items. We analyze the basic relations between these patterns and classical JEPs in transaction databases and local reducts from the rough set theory. JEPNs provide an interesting type of knowledge and can be successfully used for classification purposes. By analogy to JEP-Classifier, we consi...