The design of many information processing systems rely on representative samples of data. Such data may not be readily available due to the cost of acquiring the data or due to privacy concerns. This situation can be alleviated by constructing representative samples from available data sets. This can be done by applying appropriate transformations, e.g., injecting noise, that preserve semantic ...

We thank all the patients who took part in the study, colleagues within the Sarah Cannon Research Institute UK site who cared for these patients, and Bartley O’Connor of Sqeeler Limited for the IT platform used during this pilot study. We also thank David Peters of Sequoia Medical Communications Ltd, who provided medical writing assistance funded by AstraZeneca, and colleagues within the AstraZ...

version goes dangerously astray: in ch.9, the Elders (sic) are not a specific group but merely older physicians as contrasted with the youthful Galen. Yet, given the editor's unfamiliarity with Greek and with the institutions of the Greek world, such errors of English translation are remarkably few, and the alert Galenist will be able with a little thought to work out the words of Galen that li...

Mirror writing (MW) has mainly been observed in left-hemisphere-damaged patients writing with the left hand. This study evaluated the presence of MW in 24 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We found that MW is not a typical feature of MCI. However, one woman (FC), mislabeled initially with MCI but in fact affected by anxiety, showed florid MW when writing with her left hand, which r...

QUATrROCENTO medical writings have fascinated few modem historians of medicine. Despite Lynn Thorndike's masterful challenges to it,' George Sarton's view has generally prevailed with investigators, that for science the Italian Renaissance, while perhaps a period of preparation, was certainly a period of dissolution.2 Although in recent years historians have come to realize that Vesalius' achie...

Title of Document: CONTRIBUTIONS OF PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, MOTIVATION, AND STRATEGIES TO KOREAN COLLEGE STUDENTS’ L2 WRITING DEVELOPMENT Soo Eun Chae Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Directed By: Professor Patricia A. Alexander, Department of Human Development The current study examined Korean college students’ L2 writing development and performance, motivation, and strategies while taking ESL writing clas...

Objective: Cancer for Unknown Primary is cancer with unidentified metastases, and it is believed that CUP diagnosis affects survival in two different pathways; CUP may innately differ from other cancers with identified primaries, so the diagnosis itself can influence how long a person can survive. Another way is that CUP diagnosis affects how much people receive treatment, and the treatment, th...

Obtaining and critically appraising evidence is clearly not enough to make better decisions in clinical care. The evidence should be linked to the clinician's expertise, the patient's individual circumstances (including values and preferences), and clinical context and settings. We propose critical thinking and decision-making as the tools for making that link. Critical thinking is also called ...

Fo generation is an effective instrument for identifying intonational foreign accent (IFA), as it can be applied to determine the relevance of observed deviations in the intonation patterns produced by non-native speakers of a language, This study aims to show that the method of intonation description that is used and that also serves as the basis for F0 generation determines the form of the ob...

Data warehousing systems populating processes are responsible for loading their data repositories – the data warehouses – with information they extract from operational sources. The tasks that integrate these processes are the most complex ones that we can find in a data warehousing system. For a flawless implementation, modelling these processes previously is important so that a correct set of...