Many real-world phenomena can be represented by a spatio-temporal signal: where, when, and how much. Social media is a tantalizing data source for those who wish to monitor such signals. Unlike most prior work, we assume that the target phenomenon is known and we are given a method to count its occurrences in social media. However, counting is plagued by sample bias, incomplete data, and, parad...

Many real-world phenomena can be represented by a spatiotemporal signal: where, when, and how much. Social media is a tantalizing data source for those who wish to monitor such signals. Unlike most prior work, we assume that the target phenomenon is known and we are given a method to count its occurrences in social media. However, counting is plagued by sample bias, incomplete data, and, parado...

Water quality monitoring programs have expanded in an effort to quantify loadings to streams and lakes from various watershed activities and managements. At the core of monitoring programs are strategies or schemes that determine when and how samples are taken for estimating stream loadings. Quantification of the differences between these schemes has not been adequately documented. An analytic ...

BACKGROUND The study was aimed to determine the measurement accuracy of The CDI™ blood parameter monitoring system 500 (Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation, Ann Arbor MI) in the real-time continuous measurement of arterial blood gases under different cardiocirculatory stress conditions METHODS Inotropic stimulation (Dobutamine 2.5 and 5 μg/kg/min), vasoconstriction (Arginine-vasopressin...

OBJECTIVES To identify interventions and outcome measures that should be included when designing care management programs for older patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) and assessing the overall effectiveness of these programs. STUDY DESIGN Structured literature review and assessment. METHODS A systematic literature search was conducted to identify articles that described interventi...

We propose to use ILP techniques to learn sets of temporally constrained events called chronicles that a monitoring tool will use to detect pathological situations. ICL, a system providing a declarative bias language, was used for the experiments on learning cardiac arrhythmias. We show how to obtain properties, such as compactness, robustness or readability, by varying the learning bias.

In developing countries, weak institutional quality can increase the probability of applying discretionary policies and can have a great impact on their double-digit inflation. Surico (2008) calculated inflation bias, but he considered just monetary policy and he did not pay attention to the institutions. Therefore, we design a model which considers the discretion in monetary and fiscal policie...

BACKGROUND As the sensing capabilities of wearable devices improve, there is increasing interest in their application in medical settings. Capabilities such as heart rate monitoring may be useful in hospitalized patients as a means of enhancing routine monitoring or as part of an early warning system to detect clinical deterioration. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of heart rate monitoring...

People with schizophrenia who hallucinate show impairments in reality monitoring (the ability to distinguish internally generated information from information obtained from external sources) compared to non-hallucinating patients and healthy individuals. While this may be explained at least in part by an increased externalizing bias, it remains unclear whether this impairment is specific to rea...