... up the dimensions) There are also severalopen researchissuesin thedesignof systemsbasedon the E-ADT paradigm, and in extensions ofthe paradigm to handle optimizations that spandata types Acknowledgements ... PIVceeding ofthe ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, May 1994 [CS92] RakeshChandmand Arie Segev.ManagingTemporalFinancial Data in anExtensible Database.In Proceedings ofthe International Conference ... supports relational data as well as sequencedata, using a novel design paradigm of enhancedabstractdata types (BADTs ) The systemimplementation basedon this paradigmallows sequence relational queriesto...
... purpose The separate data area of these database systems means that they not need the segment cleaning mechanisms ofthe Sprite LFS to reclaim log space The space occupied by the log in a database system ... log as the most up to date ‘‘truth’’ about the state ofthe data on disk The main difference is that database systems not use the log as the final repository for data: a separate data area is reserved ... has the disadvantage of increasing the amount of data lost during a crash For this paper we will assume that crashes are infrequent and that it is acceptable to lose a few seconds or minutes of...
... registration, location, and actiThe CORBA Event Service model simplifies application vation; request demultiplexing; framing and error-handling; parameter marshalling and demarshalling; and operation ... thesystem must allocate additional threads to allow the application to make progress while the I/O Facade task is blocked However, 2: Demarshaled data adding threads to thesystem has many negative ... data was not availHigh Level able to be pulled, the calling I/O Facade would need to block I/O Facade I/O Facade I/O Facade Abstraction awaiting a result In order for the I/O Facade to pull, the...
... work was supported in part by an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada andthe Canada Research Chairs program The authors acknowledge Mr Ka Lun ... the manuscript TC conceived the study, advised on thedesignand coordination ofthe experiments, and edited the manuscript All authors read and approved the final version ofthe manuscript Acknowledgements ... factor was selectable in the 1.2-2.5 range, and was adjusted for each participant such that false activations due to blinks and movement were avoided and participants were able to activate the switch...
... measure on the randomness ofthe encrypted images General images typically have a degree of randomness associated with both the natural random nature ofthe underlying structure andthe random noise ... assignment of q and s andthe q,s mapping Rotate Y j is changed to be ahead ofthe iloop including the assignment of p and r andthe mapp,r ping Rotate Xi q,s (2) The parameter q in Rotate Y j changes ... perform the software simulation, randomness measurement, and sensitivity analysis of parameters in the proposed system In Section 4, we illustrate the hardware designandrealizationofthe proposed...
... potentially accelerate decision-making with regard to extubation; and to assess the safety and feasibility of our approach Materials and method The intervention was carried out in a 14-bed medical/surgical ... criticism, and feedback was given on a regular basis Based on the feedback, the protocol was regularly re-evaluated and updated Nurses and RCPs responded favourably to the MDT-driven extubation protocol ... declared Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge the assistance provided by Dr A Esteban and Dr A Anzueto, Michael Aubin, George Tomlinson, Rod Fowler and all ofthe medical, respiratory care...
... Neale 2000; Dolan et al 1999; Sheheta et al 1999; Saadatmanesh and Ehsani 1998; Benmokrane and Rahman 1998; Neale and Labossière 1997; Hassan and Rizkalla 2002) The development of codes and standards ... mechanical properties ofa material Delamination A separation along a plane parallel to the surface, as in the separation ofthe layers ofthe FRP laminate from each other Development length, FRP The ... bond to the concrete substrate; flexural and shear strengthening of beams and slabs are examples of bond-critical applications Catalyst A substance that accelerates a chemical reaction and enables...
... Australia and New Zealand By the mid-1990s, new GSM networks had sprung up globally from the Philippines and Thailand to Iran, Morocco, Latvia and Russia, as well as in the Americas and to a lesser ... Managing the success ofthe platform means managing compatibility better; adopting and adhering to open standards including tool and language standards (standard C++, the ARM EABI, and so on); ... operating system is required at the bottom ofthe stack to manage the hardware and support the layers of software protocols all the way up to the phone-signaling stack Treating the phone as a black...
... know that the capacitance (stated in terms ofthe amount of charge (Q) stored at a given voltage drop (across the capacitor)) ofa capacitor is given by (1) (Note that: the SI unit of capacitance ... is the farad; farad = coulomb per volt; typical capacitances are measured in microfarads or picofarads) 5.2.1 The Virtual Capacitor To implement the law of Coulomb, a TinyOS application was developed ... 3A7 3A4 3A1 3A1 0 3A1 5 3A8 3A1 6 3A9 3A2 3A6 3A3 Figure 13: Spatial distribution ofthe individual success rate in the Castalia simulator categories: green = best, yellow, orange, and red (least...
... representativeness of participants, the lack ofa comparison, andthe assessment of intermediate outcomes For example, we have not evaluated the impact ofthe use of NorthStar on the processes and outcomes of ... developing and evaluating the QI intervention In addition, NorthStar is available as both a browser-based version and an HTML help file version, and will soon be available in French and Italian, as well ... NorthStar is a major product ofthe ReBEQI project It is a software program that packages information on thedesignand evaluation of evidence-based QI interventions into an integrated, easily accessible,...
... specific rating scales [19,29] In addition, a separate team of independent raters trained to reliability will randomly evaluate several ofthe tapes from early, middle, and late therapy phase of each ... high rate of relapse after an initial response Innovative antidepressant approaches should aim at the regulation and maintenance of mood stability over the long term rather than at the acute ... have shown to be favorable [46] Evaluation by a relative At the end ofthe therapy, a relative ofthe patient will be asked to evaluate 14 items of depressive symptoms before and after therapy...
... PSW andthe participant will take place on-site with the case manager andthe peer support coordinator present The nature ofthe intervention will be explained again and both the participant and ... in a treatment questionnaire (see below) and via a telephone call made by the RA to the new treating clinician asking about attendance at appointments and medication adherence These treatment adherence ... ofthe study and made substantial contributions to the study designandthe development ofthe intervention andthe study protocols All authors have been involved in drafting the manuscript and...
... psychologists ofthe Rotterdam University and Maastricht University and psychiatrists ofthe departments of Psychiatry ofthe University of Amsterdam (AMC) andthe Groningen University (UMCG) We collaborate ... Subsequently, the researcher checks whether the participant understands all aspects ofthe trial If they agree to enter the trial, they complete a copy ofthe consent form and send it back to the researcher ... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/11/8 after reading the information then the participant contacts the researcher The researcher checks whether the patient understands all aspects ofthe trial If the patient...
... CONTENTS Preparing the Common Technical Document 241 Data Management 241 Data Entry and Data Management 242 Small-Scale Clinical Studies 242 Clinical Database Managers 242 Data Analysis 243 Utilities ... you’ll have taken the first steps toward obtaining transnational approvals at no increase in costs The United States, Japan, andthe Electronic data capture cuts European Union have already costs and ... the act ofa child, not ofa mature manager Often, those in upper management cannot understand the delay Yet the tale ofthe ever-befuddled Bumbling Pharmaceutical and Device Company told in the...
... choosing the appropriate software for data entry, data management, and statistical analysis is normally divided among the lead software engineer, the data manager, andthe statistician (subject, of ... beyond an understanding ofthe data management software to security (maintaining onsite and offsite backups) and quality control Programs for Data Analysis Development of programs for data analysis ... programming team, but she must possess a general knowledge of both data entry and data management software and be able to prepare and maintain a flow or Gant chart for the development process She bears...
... reading of 100 mmHg, whereas the second had a baseline of 120 mmHg Comparing the changes that take place as a result of treatment, rather than just the final values, reveals in this hypothetical ... to $30,000, and so forth Six years of steady inflation later andthe organizers ofthe study realized that all the categories had to be adjusted An income of $21,000 at the start ofthe study would ... But when an independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board looked at the data, they found that of 730 patients randomized to the active therapy, 56 died, while ofthe BEWARE OF HOLES IN THE INSTRUCTIONS...
... submissions, for the format and organization of reports, for the format and contents of tables, and for the format and naming of files and directories The CTD provides for analysis of trial data, descriptions ... trials are contemplated, a pharmacokineticist is an essential addition to thedesign team To maintain the validity ofa fractional factorial design one has to be able to assume that the effect of ... recently was the lack of commercially available software with which to designthe experiment and perform the analysis Fortunately, S+SeqTrial and EAST are now available (see Appendix) TAKING COST...
... copy of your final report and an electronic copy of your database andthe programs you’re used to retrieve and analyze the data In the United States, the latter is termed an e-sub or CANDA (Computer-Aided ... are automatically in a position to submit a CANDA Between 1991 and 1994, CANDAs in the United States were approved about months faster than traditional paper applications— in an average of 18.4 ... was counted as having BR Otherwise, a follow-up angiogram ofthe target lesion at ± 0.5 months was used If such an angiogram was not available, the first angiogram ofthe target lesion taken after...
... paths among the data as in a network access database Changes to the database structure are easily accommodated The structure ofthe database can be changed without having to change any applications ... spell ofa salesperson) Three issues are discussed: Choice of data management software andthe options available to you Transfer of data from data entry to data storage and from data storage to ... problems of storage and retrieval Relational Database Model A relational database appears to stores all its data inside tables Each table consists ofa set of rows and columns similar (from the user’s...