conclusions the patient cost increased as the length of stay increased due to the policy of bundle pricing. results the female/male ratio was 2.55. the mean age of the 71 poisoned patients was 28.92 ± 11.51 years. most of the poisoning agents were pharmaceuticals (68 cases). among the pharmaceuticals, antidepressants were involved most often, followed by analgesics. there was no statistically s...

Shifting to many-core architectures is becoming compulsory for real-time applications demanding intensive computing capabilities. Nonetheless, the gain in performance of many-core architectures does not come for free. In particular, it comes at the cost of predictability and determinism issues. Logical determinism is the property of programs that for the same sequence of inputs always give the ...

This paper describes the Italian real estate investment funds industry, providing an overview of the distinctive features and risk factors of this sector. By using accounting and supervisory data, we: (1) compute the returns of the real estate assets in the portfolio of these funds; (2) construct a price index and a total return index of the real estate assets held by the Italian funds; (3) def...

Material property evolution during processing is governed by the evolution of the underlying microstructure. We present an efficient technique for tailoring texture development and thus, optimizing properties in forming processes involving polycrystalline materials. The deformation process simulator allows simulation of texture formation using a continuum representation of the orientation distr...

Recently, there have been intensive studies of margin-based learning for automatic speech recognition (ASR). It is our believe that by securing a margin from the decision boundaries to the training samples, a correct decision can still be made if the mismatches between testing and training samples are well within the tolerance region specified by the margin. This nice property should be effecti...

The enhancement of speech degraded by nonstationary noises and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions is a high demanding but challenging task. We present a robust and effective single channel speech enhancement algorithm under the framework of Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF). Considering the sparse property of speech and low-rank property of nonstationary noise, a new formulation fo...

Most of the encryption algorithms used today generate huge cipher messages as well as long encryption keys. These approaches require time and are computationally intensive. In this paper we introduce two operators, represented as mathematical models called Pentor and Ultra Pentor. These operators can be easily generated out of any number and can be used for encryption purposes. The strength of ...

Customary rules governing access to land and other natural resources in village societies have characteristics that allow them to fulfil social security functions and achieve equity objectives. This is true of both common-property resources and land parcels held under individualized tenure. However, when land pressure increases under the combined influences of population growth and market integ...

Stacking Fault Energy (SFE) is an intrinsic alloy property that governs much of the plastic deformation mechanisms observed in fcc alloys. While SFE has been recognized for many years as a key mechanical property, its inference via experimental observations or prediction using, example, computationally intensive first-principles methods challenging. This difficulty precludes explicit use design...

Medical plants have a great value in traditional knowledge related to human health care both used whole plant or consisting in curative remedies. These valuable uses has been led to commercial use of medicinal plants and their derivatives which makes great benefits. Also there is a growing desire to use of completely natural materials as curative drugs around the world. These facts show up a gr...