But there is evidence that some clinicians may already be using continuous deep sedation (CDS), as a form of "slow euthanasia". Research suggests use of CDS in Britain is particularly high - accounting for about one in six of all deaths.
This post discusses the benefits of full-stack data science generalists over narrow functional specialists. The later will help you execute and bring process...
Five years ago, a team of researchers from Google announced a remarkable achievement in one of the world’s top scientific journals, Nature. Without needing the results of a single medical check-up, they were nevertheless able to track the spread of
Walking a neighborhood, study subjects wear a Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), which is a simple indicator of the emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location.
For the 18th year in a row, Spain leads the world in the number of deceased organ donors per million people -- 34.3. This is a commonly used benchmark of the effectiveness of a donor system and other countries lag far behind. The average for the European Union is 18.1 and in the US it is 26.3. In the UK, the figure is 14.7 and in Australia 12.1 donors per million. The Spanish are particularly proud of their record, which was achieved despite a steady decrease in the number of traffic deaths, a major source of organs. What is the secret of the Spanish system? Dedication and teamwork.In 1989 the government set up a national network of transplant coordinators. They work in all hospitals and closely monitor emergency wards to be aware of potential donors. When they learn of a death, they tactfully try to persuade relatives to allow the person's organs to be harvested. Only about 15% of families refuse consent nowadays, a huge drop from 40% before the system was set up.
A Privacy protected, data sharing platform which keeps raw data at the source and sends aggregate data only to end user (based on rules of engagement created by data owners), mitigating risk of data breaches -- MARS (UToronto), York University, and NSERC are partners
Auf der internationalen Konferenz iPres haben Experten die Zukunft der Archivierung digitaler Daten diskutiert. Dabei spielen nur ökologische Aspekte, sondern auch analoge Datenträger Den Radiobeitrag zu diesem Artikel hören Sie am Sonntag, dem 26. September 2010, um 22.30 Uhr im Ö1-Netzkulturmagazin "matrix". Herausforderungen für die digitale Langzeitarchivierung Steintafeln haben eine Lebensdauer von mehreren Tausend Jahren. Bücher und Handschriften aus säurefreiem Papier halten bei guter Lagerung einige Hundert Jahre. Optische Speichermedien wie CD und DVD bringen es noch auf 50 bis 100 Jahre, während Festplatten maximal zehn Jahre durchhalten. Archivare und Kuratoren zerbrechen sich deshalb schon seit Jahren darüber den Kopf, wie sie ihre digitalen Archive fit für eine lange Zukunft machen können. Die ständig wachsende Datenmenge und die rasante technische Entwicklung, die immer neue Speichermedien und Datenformate hervorbringt, stellen sie dabei vor große Herausforderungen.
In the era where data has become the new gold, ways of managing it for analysis and decision making has become a primary point of concern among the organizations. Where we have databases for the…
blprnt.com is a home online for digital artist and designer Jer Thorp. It is an exhibiition of generative projects & experiments with evolution as well as a space for discussion and learning. Jer Thorp is an artist and educator working out of Vancouver, Canada. His work has been exhibited internationally and he is a regular speaker at conferences and events around the world.
Conduct an analysis of previous and current models for sustainable digital preservation, and identify current best practices among existing collections, repositories and analogous enterprises. Develop a set of economically viable recommendations to catalyze the development of reliable strategies for the preservation of digital information. Provide a research agenda to organize and motivate future work in the specific area of economic sustainability of digital information.
The first chapter introduces the problem space in terms of making sense of very large, complex datasets and outlines the vision for visual analytics. T