OBJECTIVE To explore patient's perspectives and expectations from physicians with respect to breaking of bad news. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was carried out in the Community Health Centre of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Pakistan. All consenting individuals from 18 to 60 years of age were interviewed on the basis of a structured, pre-tested questionnaire. RESULTS The response ...

The IκB kinase complex (IKK) is a key regulator of immune responses, inflammation, cell survival, and tumorigenesis. The prosurvival function of IKK centers on activation of the transcription factor NF-κB, whose target gene products inhibit caspases and prevent prolonged JNK activation. Here, we report that inactivation of the BH3-only protein BAD by IKK independently of NF-κB activation suppre...

This study uses the metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger index to measure changes in productivity of 4587 schools Colombian education system. Public and private are differentiated all participated Saber 11 standardized test between 2014 2017 subjects mathematics, reading, sciences, social citizen sciences English. methodology is appropriate while using good bad outputs educational context. The gen...

The adoption of Machine Translation technology for commercial applications is hampered by the lack of trust associated with machine-translated output. In this paper, we describe TrustRank, an MT system enhanced with a capability to rank the quality of translation outputs from good to bad. This enables the user to set a quality threshold, granting the user control over the quality of the transla...

Salmon aquaculture generates good output (i.e., salmon) and bad output (e.g., pollution). A joint production function approach is applied to model both outputs simultaneously. Two environmental production technologies are specified, namely, regulated and unregulated technologies. Two production functions with different mapping rules are applied. Pollution abatement costs are estimated based on ...

Karl Popper discussed admirably the choice between faith and reason [Popper, 1945, Ch. 24]. He admitted that the basis of rationalism is a faith of sorts, a faith in reason. Later on his disciple William W. Bartley dissented from him [Bartley, 1962] and even called him a fideist [Radnitzky and Bartley, 1987, 205, 208, 210-11], much to his annoyance. All this caused bad blood between the two [La...

In this article, we describe a tool for visualizing the output and attention weights of neural machine translation systems and for estimating confidence about the output based on the attention. Our aim is to help researchers and developers better understand the behaviour of their NMT systems without the need for any reference translations. Our tool includes command line and web-based interfaces...

Non-Trivial Reversible Identities (NTRIs) are reversible circuits that have equal inputs and outputs. NTRIs of arbitrary size cannot be detected, in general, using optimization algorithms in the literature. Existence of NTRIs in a circuit will cause a slow down by increasing the number of gates and the quantum cost. NTRIs might arise because of an integration of two or more optimal reversible c...

Since optimal equalization has complexity exponential in channel length and information rate, the suboptimal Decision Feedback Equalizer (DFE), whose complexity is linear in channel length, is a popular alternative for practical communication systems. The recently proposed BAD (Bidirectional Arbitrated DFE) algorithm provides substantial performance gains over the standard DFE by arbitrating be...