This chapter introduces the concept of educational efficiency and its calculating formula to describe the effect, cost, and duration of an educational system composing learners, teachers, and learning content and instructional approaches. Then the formula is used to compare the cost-effectiveness of the blended learning with CSIEC system and that of the traditional teaching and learning approac...

Lung cancer is a very frequent tumor in the developed world and the leading cause of cancer death, with non-small cell lung cancer being the most prevalent type and with most difficult prognosis. In this paper we present a decision support system built for finding the optimal selection of tests and therapy for each patient. The system basically consists of an influence diagram with super value ...

Cellular communication networks are plagued with redundant capacity, which results in low utilization and costeffectiveness of network capital investments. The redundant capacity can be exploited to deliver secondary traffic that is ultra-elastic and delay-tolerant. In this paper, we propose an analytical framework to study the capacity-delay tradeoff of elastic/secondary traffic in large scale...

RESULTS: The decision tree shows the associated probabilities, QALYs and costs for each clinical outcome arising from either the LVOS arm or the SSIR arm. An ICUR of $644/QALY favoring LVOS was calculated based off of its clinical-effectiveness gain of 7.11 QALY at an additional cost of $4,579.43 (partly due to the additional costs of radiation treatment and the bilateral operation needed for L...

H eart failure is the leading cause of hospitalization in adults older than 65 years, and it is currently the most costly cardiovascular disorder in the United States, with estimated annual expenditures in excess of $20 billion. Recent studies have shown that selected pharmacological agents, behavioral interventions, and surgical therapies are associated with improved clinical outcomes in patie...

Deep Neural Networks are designed explicitly for visionbased applications. They have become a standard method image classification, object detection, real-time processing capabilities, and other computer vision tasks. With the intervention of human beings, it is challenging businesses to verify that product appropriately created without any glitches, as this could result in errors due lack trai...

Objective : analysis of clinical and economic efficiency various etiotropic chemotherapy regimes in patients with respiratory tuberculosis multidrug- extensively drug-resistant (MDR XDR) pathogen using the pharmacoeconomic modeling method (Markov model). Material methods . A single-centre, observational, retrospective, cohort study was performed, which included who received treatment clinics af...