AIMS Little is known about routine use of basal insulins [glargine, detemir, neutral protamine Hagedorn (NPH)] in primary care patients with type 2 diabetes. The aim was to compare injection frequencies of basal insulins in type 2 diabetes in primary care practices, both for basal-supported oral therapy (BOT) and basal-bolus treatment [intensified conventional therapy (ICT)] regimens. METHODS...

The paper deals with the problem of modeling key features of the Web traffic generated by Internet bots, observed at the input of a Web server. Based on real log data of an online store, a set of bot sessions was prepared and analyzed. Three session features connected with bots’ arrival process at the server were analyzed: session interarrival time, request interarrival time, and the number of ...

BACKGROUND Due to the progressive nature of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), antidiabetic treatment needs to be continuously intensified to avoid long-term complications. In T2DM patients on either basal insulin-supported oral therapy (BOT) or supplementary insulin therapy (SIT) presenting with HbA1c values above individual targets for 3-6 months, therapy should be intensified. This study inves...

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) which were introduced in 2008 has since drawn attention around the world for both its advantages as well as criticism on its drawbacks. One of the issues in MOOCs which is the lack of interactivity with the instructor has brought conversational bot into the picture to fill in this gap. In this study, a prototype of MOOCs conversational bot, MOOC-bot is being ...

A botnet is a network of compromised hosts that is under the control of a single, malicious entity, often called the botmaster. We present a system that aims to detect bot-infected machines, independent of any prior information about the command and control channels or propagation vectors, and without requiring multiple infections for correlation. Our system relies on detection models that targ...

This Technical Report describes the final version of the simulating software Swarmbot3d implementing the swarm-bot simulator as outlined in Workpackage 3, ”Simulator Prototype”. The document presents all the simulator’s features and acts as a developer’s manual. It describes the implementation choices and software components. It is complemented with the simulator software in its final version, ...

We present a new type of robot concept called swarm-bot, based on cooperative and swarm intelligence, that was developed within an interdisciplinary project sponsored by the Future and Emerging Technologies of the European Commission. A swarm-bot is an assembly of several mobile robots (called s-bots), which can operate both autonomously and as a group. The unique feature of the project is that...