Medical alerts in CPOE are overridden in most cases. The need for alerting systems that are better adapted to physicians' needs and work processes is recognized. Our study aims to shed some light on how medical alerts are used and how they are integrated in the work process. Work analysis and interviews resulted in a hierarchical task analysis of prescription during ward rounds at the Universit...

X3D-UML utilises X3D (eXtensible 3D) to enable standards-based advanced 3D UML visualisations. Using X3D-UML, 3D UML State Machine Diagrams have been evaluated against actual user tasks and data, using the Sequential Evaluation methodology. The results of User Task Analysis, Heuristic Evaluation and Formative Evaluation phases provide clear evidence that the use of UML extended with 3D is a pra...

In order to achieve e cient execution of an algorithm on a large scale multiprocessor, a number of problems have to be addressed. Three of these problems are partitioning, placement and scheduling. In the current implementation of Alewife, these problems are handled mostly by the run-time system using Lazy Thread Creation and a Distributed-Tree Task Manager, both of which are described in this ...

Multicore processors, or chip multiprocessors, which allow us to realize low power consumption, high effective performance, good cost performance and short hardware/software development period, are attracting much attention. In order to achieve full potential of multicore processors, cooperation with a parallelizing compiler is very important. The latest compiler extracts multilevel parallelism...

Introduction: Previous studies have shown that exercise enhances cognitive and functional capacities in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this study, we investigated the effect of long-term (60 days) and short- term (10 days) exercise on the spatial memory deficits in an animal model of AD. Methods: Fifty male rats were divided into 5 groups 1) intact, 2) sham, 3) sham-Alzheimer 4) ...

In this paper we present a run-time mechanism to simultaneously execute multiple threads from a sequential program on a simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processor. The threads are speculative in the sense that they are created by predicting the future control flow of the program. Moreover, threads are not necessarily independent. Data dependences among simultaneously executed threads may exist....

In this paper we present research in which we apply (i) the kind of intrinsic evaluation metrics that are characteristic of current comparative HLT evaluation, and (ii) extrinsic, human task-performance evaluations more in keeping with NLG traditions, to 15 systems implementing a language generation task. We analyse the evaluation results and find that there are no significant correlations betw...

The TUNA-REG’09 Challenge was one of the shared-task evaluation competitions at Generation Challenges 2009. TUNAREG’09 used data from the TUNA Corpus of paired representations of entities and human-authored referring expressions. The shared task was to create systems that generate referring expressions for entities given representations of sets of entities and their properties. Four teams submi...

The note describes the Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) system developed at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, India. In this competition, we have participated and submitted the results in the RTE-7 Main Task (3 runs), Novelty Task (3 runs) and RTE-7 KBP Validation task (2 unique runs for generic task and 2 unique runs for tailored task). For the RTE7 Main...