ABSTRACT Lakes Regional General Hospital conducted a pre-intervention and a post-intervention study assessing the impact of implementing community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) guidelines within a rural referral hospital. The results showed that the percentage of patients receiving appropriate antibiotic therapy increased from 67% to 87% and that significantly more antibiotic orders met guideline cr...

We report the direct frequency measurement of the visible 5s(2) 1S0-5s5p 3P1 intercombination line of strontium that is considered a possible candidate for a future optical-frequency standard. The frequency of a cavity-stabilized laser is locked to the saturated fluorescence in a thermal Sr atomic beam and is measured with an optical-frequency comb generator referenced to the SI second through ...

This paper presents a neural network approach for classification of musical instrument sounds through Radial and Elliptical Basic Functions. In particular, we discuss a novel automatic network fine-tuning method called Nearest Centroid Error Clustering (NCC) which determines a robust number of centroids for improved system performance. 829 monophonic sound examples from the string, brass, and w...

824 | CrystEngComm, 2015, 17, 824–829 This journal is © The R a BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Richard-WillstaetterStr. 11, 12489 Berlin, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany † Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: DTA-TGA measurements of the reac...

Vol. 27, No. 3, 2015 349 Received January 10, 2014, Revised July 7, 2014, Accepted for publication July 30, 2014 Corresponding author: Chun Wook Park, Department of Dermatology, Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, 1 Singil-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 150-950, Korea. Tel: 82-2-829-5221, Fax: 82-2-832-3237, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under th...

We present a fast, novel method for building porous silicon-based silicon-on-insulator photonic crystals in which a periodic modulation of the refractive index is built by alternating different electrochemical etching currents. The morphology and reflectance spectra of the photonic crystals, prepared by the proposed method, are investigated. The scanning electron micrograph and atomic force mic...

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Address correspondence to: Dr. Seymour Katz, 1000 Northern Boulevard, Great Neck, NY 11021; Tel: 516-466-3240; Fax: 516-829-6421; E-mail: [email protected] The incidence of obesity in the United States has increased dramatically along with its associated comorbidities (eg, heart disease, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes) and mortality risk.1 Bariatric surgery has surfaced as one effecti...

This paper outlines a RBF/EBF neural network approach for automatic musical instrument classification using salient feature extraction techniques with a combination of supervised and unsupervised learning schemes. 829 monophonic sound examples (86% Siedlaczek Library [2], 14% other sources) from the string, brass, and woodwind families with a variety of performance techniques, dynamics, and pit...

Properties of the 11 084 874 829 Steiner triple systems of order 19 are examined. In particular, there is exactly one 5-sparse, but no 6-sparse, STS(19); there is exactly one uniform STS(19); there are exactly two STS(19) with no almost parallel classes; all STS(19) have chromatic number 3; all have chromatic index 10, except for 4 075 designs with chromatic index 11 and two with chromatic inde...