Clinical audits have highlighted the many challenges and dilemmas faced by clinicians assessing persons with disorders of consciousness (vegetative state and minimally conscious state). The diagnostic decision-making process is highly subjective, dependent upon the skills of the examiner and invariably dictated by the patients' ability to move or speak. Whilst a considerable amount has been lea...

As the US population continues to grow in racial and ethnic diversity, we also continue to see healthcare disparities across racial lines. Considerable attention has been given to creating a physician workforce that better reflects the population served by healthcare professionals. To address the low numbers of women and underrepresented minorities in procedural based specialties, Nth Dimension...

Strategic decision making, especially in the areas of business intelligence and competitive intelligence, requires the acquisition of decision-relevant information pieces like market trends, fusions and company values. This information is extracted by pre-processing and querying multiple sources, combining and condensing the findings. It is characteristic that the extraction process is resource...

This article argues that both flexible spectrum management and the concept of reconfigurability do not eliminate the need for certain centralized controlling entities, and even introduce a number of new entities performing regulatory, commercial and technical functions. One such entity, the Cognitive Pilot Channel (CPC), is presented, and different configurations of the CPC are outlined. Subseq...

Business process modelling (BPM) notations describe processes using a graphical representation of process-relevant entities and their interplay. Despite the wide literature on the comparison between different modelling languages, the BPM community still lacks an ontological characterisation of process constructs. Purpose of this paper is to start filling this gap by providing a first ontologica...

Resolving anaphora is an important step in the identification of named entities such as genes and proteins in biomedical scientific articles. The goal of this work is to resolve associative and coreferential anaphoric expressions making use of the rich domain resources (such as databases and ontologies) available for the biomedical area, instead of annotated training data. The results are compa...

Cloud computing is becoming an important tool that is offering multiple opportunities to state entities. However, this paradigm can also impose constraints and increase risk to this kind of institutions. For this reason, it is necessary for the entities in the state sector to assess cloud services before making the decision of adopting them. In this context, this work presents a review to ident...

Trust has become essential in computer science as a way of assisting the process of decision-making, such as access control. In any system, several tasks may be performed, and each of these tasks might pose different associated trust values between the entities of the system. For instance, in a file system, reading and overwriting a file are two tasks that pose different trust values between th...

PURPOSE To test the utility of a brief measure of developmental assets for predicting risk and health-promoting behaviors. METHODS Six "assets" questions were added to an existing school-based survey of health-related behaviors. "Asset" questions dealt with students' grades in school, their communication with parents about school, students' perceptions of their role in school decision-making,...

In this paper, a normal inverse Gaussian factor model is developed to describe the fat-tailed feature of the default distribution of reference entities in order to study basket default swaps pricing. Based on this model, the explicit formula for the distribution of the kth default time is accurately obtained by making use of order statistics, and the closed forms of the price of BDS at the kth ...