OBJECTIVES To refine the Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (FS-ICU) survey and develop a validated method for scoring the instrument. DESIGN Instrument development study, using data from two prospective cohort studies. SETTING Intensive care units in seven university-affiliated hospitals (six Canadian, one United States). SUBJECTS Family members of ICU patients. INTERVENTIO...

Feature selection (FS) is a vital and challenging process in many domains, including data mining, clustering, text education, biology, medicine, public health, machine learning, image processing, others. The greedy comprehensive algorithm methods cannot identify the best subset amid rising number of features. Thus, swarm-based algorithms are becoming more popular for identifying group This stud...

A 42-day study was conducted to evaluate the influence of full-fat flaxseed (FS) and canola seed (CS) on broiler performance, fatty acid (FA) profile of meat, serum lipid content and antibody response to sheep red blood cells antigen (SRBC). A total of 324 one-day-old chicks were attributed to 6 experimental groups. C: control (soybean-corn); CS1:7.5% CS; CS2:15% CS; CS-FS:10% FS + 10% CS; FS1:...

Compared to the bulk piezoelectric materials counterpart, thin films (PTFs) possess advantages of smaller size, lower power consumption, better sensitivity, and have broad application in advanced micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) devices. However, performance MEMS transducers actuators are largely limited by PTFs properties. In this review, we focus on understanding structure-property rela...

in this work, we define fuzzy soft ($fs$) matrices and theiroperations which are more functional to make theoretical studies inthe $fs$-set theory. we then define products of $fs$-matrices andstudy their properties. we finally construct a $fs$-$max$-$min$decision making method which can be successfully applied to theproblems that contain uncertainties.

Notes for a seminar in the IST TQFT Club about the Baez-Dolan groupoidification and its extensions, as applied to some toy models in physics.

The purpose was to show that when a favor reduces a person's freedom, it arouses "psychological reactance," a motivational state aimed at restoration of this freedom. Ss, run individually, learned they were to make Ist-imprcssion ratings of another S (confederate) and then were given a soft drink by this S, prior to making the ratings. In a 2 X 2 design, the Ist-imprcssion ratings were given lo...

in the tumorigenicity of human melanoma cells (Ledda Erhard Hohenester1, Patrik Maurer2,3 and et al., 1997). Other activities of BM-40 include calciumRupert Timpl2 dependent binding to collagens and thrombospondin, bindDepartment of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, ing to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-AB and London WC1E 7HX, UK and 2Abteilung Proteinchemie, -BB and the regulation of c...

Mining labeled subgraph is a popular research task in data mining because of its potential application in many different scientific domains. All the existing methods for this task explicitly or implicitly solve the subgraph isomorphism task which is computationally expensive, so they suffer from the lack of scalability problem when the graphs in the input database are large. In this work, we pr...

fully tunable fs-laser system A. Höfer K. Duncker M. Kiel S. Förster W. Widdra The ferroelectric domain structure on a (001) surface of a BaTiO3 single crystal prepared under ultrahigh vacuum conditions is imaged by laser-excited photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM). The PEEM images allow for discrimination of three domain types by their different photoemission yields. To characterize the c...