Introduction: In the current study, we compared h5-index provided by Google Scholar (GS), impact factor (IF) provided by web of sciences (WOS), and SCImago journal rank indicator (SJR) provided by SCOPUS for quality assessment of nuclear medicine journals. Methods: 2013 h5-index, 2012 IF, and 2011 SJR of nuclear medicine journals were extracted from their publishers namely GS, WOS, and SCOPUS....

Microarrays have become a routine tool for biomedical research. Data quality assessment is an essential part of the analysis, but it is still not easy to perform objectively or in an automated manner, and as a result it is often neglected. Here, we compared two strategies of array-level quality control using five publicly available microarray experiments: outlier removal and array weights. We a...

It is the position of American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) that all inpatient interdisciplinary teams include a diabetes educator to lead or support improvement efforts that affect patients hospitalized with diabetes or hyperglycemia. This not only encompasses patient and family education but education of interdisciplinary team members and achievement of diabetes-related organizati...

In overlay networks, both local and long-distance links appear as a single hop to a routing protocol. Traditional routing metrics (based on hop count or packet loss) fail to take the differences between such links into account. In this paper, we study a metric based on packet delay that has been designed to improve routing in overlay networks. We show a lightweight technique for measuring delay...

In this paper, we describe a modeling framework which allows us to reason about the social-cultural behavior of humans in interaction scenarios. The objective is to provide explanatory and predictive power to an agent or robot which either witnesses or participates in the interaction: why have the human agents behaved the way they are and what kind of behavior can I expect as an answer to certa...

Background Growing evidence shows that hospitals are increasingly employing physicians. Objective To examine changes in U.S. acute care hospitals that reported employment relationships with their physicians and to determine whether quality of care improved after the hospitals switched to this integration model. Design Retrospective cohort study of U.S. acute care hospitals between 2003 and ...