Predicting the performance of registered nurse anesthesia students (RNAS) on the national certification examination (NCE) is an area of interest to educators, students, and employers. Following graduation from an accredited nurse anesthesia educational program, RNAS must pass the NCE to practice. The purpose of this study was to investigate 13 academic, demographic, and preadmission factors whi...

Surgery has proven quite effective in patients with pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsies (TLE). Unilateral hippocampal sclerosis, in particular, is associated with positive seizure control following surgery. However, surgical relief from epileptic seizure activity may come at the expense of neuropsychological deficits. Thus, during the evaluation of patients being considered for epilepsy ...

Abstract Quantification of circulating parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP) aids in the diagnosis humoral hypercalcemia malignancy. However, this test is often ordered settings low pre-test probability or mistakenly when hormone (PTH) was desired. To improve utilization, all PTHrP orders at our institutions are reviewed by a laboratory medicine resident. If order appears to be inappropri...

in this paper a simple and effective expert system to predict random data fluctuation in short-term period is established. evaluation process includes introducing fourier series, markov chain model prediction and comparison (gray) combined with the model prediction gray- fourier- markov that the mixed results, to create an expert system predicted with artificial intelligence, made this model to...