Following termination of audit and feedback however prescribing of broad-spectrum antibiotics increased over time reverting to above-baseline levels After restandardization of the data set for the additional 18 months of data antibiotic prescribing increased from 16.7 percent
These data suggest that audit and feedback was a vital element of this intervention and that antimicrobial stewardship requires continued active efforts to sustain initial improvements in prescribing.
'Antibiotics are crashingin his last position as managing director of the Center for Molecular Discovery at Yale university Kinch had assembled a huge database of information about drug discovery and development in the pharmaceutical industry.
He has been able to excavate story after story from this storehouse of data. The crash of antibiotics is one of the best known and scariest
and vital-sign data (such as body temperature heart rate and blood pressure) in the electronic health record of hospital inpatients to identify those at risk for sepsis.
When certain data thresholds are detected the system automatically sends an electronic communication to physicians nurses and other members of a rapid response team who quickly perform a bedside evaluation
when data on admitted patients was evaluated and alerts triggered in a database but no notifications were sent to providers on the ground.
Outcomes in that control period were compared then to a post-implementation period from June to September 2013.
The REON II device or Sonde deployed October 6 on the banks of the Hudson river in New Hamburg N y. is providing real-time data called for by scientists to better understand the complex relationship between humans the built environment and our fragile waterways.
It is one of 37 sensor stations currently in place in the Hudson and St lawrence river watersheds making REON one of the world's most robust resources of real-time data.
Applications of REON data could include the ability to visualize the movement of chemical or biological contaminants with far-reaching implications for public health including homeland security concerns.
Applying world class research to water quality has to be viewed as a critical component for sustaining society as a whole says Clarkson University President Tony Collins. As healthy water becomes increasingly scarce establishing real-time data as the new standard for understanding water quality around the globe
Researchers in 40 countries correlated birth rates with economic data and concluded that a moderately low birth rate--a little below two children per woman--can actually boost a country's overall standard of living.
Data smashing could unshackle automated discovery A little known secret in data mining is that simply feeding raw data into a data analysis algorithm is unlikely to produce meaningful results,
new discoveries often begin with comparison of data streams to find connections and spot outliers. But most data comparison algorithms today have one major weakness--somewhere,
they rely on a human expert to specify what aspects of the data are relevant for comparison,
and what aspects aren't . But experts aren't keeping pace with the growing amounts and complexities of big data.
Cornell computing researchers have come up with a new principle they call"data smashing"for estimating the similarities between streams of arbitrary data without human intervention,
and without access to the data sources. Hod Lipson, associate professor of mechanical engineering and computing and information science,
Data smashing is based on a new way to compare data streams. The process involves two steps. First, the data streams are smashed algorithmically"to"annihilate"the information in each other.
Then, the process measures what information remained after the collision. The more information remained the less likely the streams originated in the same source.
Data smashing principles may open the door to understanding increasingly complex observations, especially when experts do not know what to look for, according to the researchers.
The authors demonstrated the application of their principle to data from real-world problems, including the disambiguation of electroencephalograph patterns from epileptic seizure patients;
can help us sort through this mass of data and identify critical hidden mutations that otherwise would have gone undetected."
and mutational profile data of more than 250 patients collected by the Cancer Genome Atlas consortium.
a new type of meson 1 was discovered by analysing data collected with the LHCB detector at CERN's Large hadron collider (LHC) 2. The new particle is bound together in a similar way to protons.
Warwick Ph d. student Daniel Craik who worked on the study adds Perhaps the most exciting part of this new result is that it could be the first of many similar discoveries with LHC data.
According to data from the Federal Statistical Office, the number of deadly casualties on German autobahns in 2013 rose by more than eight percent when compared to the prior year.
The data volumes to be transmitted and processed turn out to be much less--by many times over.
A total of 72 passive and 13 active components (such as LEDS, DC-to-DC converters, memory chip, image sensor and image processor) had to be positioned within the module in an especially space-saving manner.
Researcher David Ashbrook and colleagues from the UK and USA used two of the world's largest collections of scientific data to compare the genes in mice and humans.
and the corresponding genes and then matching those with genes in mice from the BXD system held in the Mouse Brain Library database we could identify this specific gene that influences neurological diseases."
contains data on over 10,000 brains and numerical data from just over 20,000 mice. David explains why combining the information held by both databases is so useful:"
"The key advantage of working this way is that it is much easier to identify a genetic variant in mice as they live in such controlled environments.
Hierarchical clustering revealed distinguishable lncrna expression profiles. Thirty lncrnas were regulated up and the expression levels of three top-ranking candidates XLOC 007697, LOC100287482,
Hierarchical clustering of the differentially expressed lncrnas was observed and 10 up-regulated lncrnas were detected using microarrays.
The data found that peanuts are allergenic due to inherent components the lead to a more robust immune response.
The system uses the distance data to make a 3d image of about 1 million pixels in less than 8. 5 minutes at the current scanning rate.
and analyzed by digital signal processing to generate time delay data which is used to calculate the distance.
Finally the system uses real-time fast processing digital electronics to produce fully calibrated 3d megapixel images.
The likely involvement of this bacterial protein in disordered eating behaviour in humans was established by analysing data from 60 patients.
These data thus confirm the involvement of the bacterial protein in the regulation of appetite and open up new perspectives for the diagnosis and specific treatment of eating disorders.
which facilitates the reconstruction of the brain's anatomic data as a 3d model on the computer.
The team envisions an open community where designs can be shared via an open-source database. They have plans to develop more components
The basic concept behind resistive memory devices is the insertion of a dielectric material--one that won't normally conduct electricity--between two wires.
The presence or absence of these conduction pathways can be used to represent the binary 1s and 0s of digital data.
For example, manufacturers have announced plans for RRAM prototype chips that will be capable of storing about one terabyte of data on a device the size of a postage stamp--more than 50 times the data density of current flash memory technology.
and even used it for exotic new devices like transparent flexible memory chips. At the same time, the researchers also conducted countless tests to compare the performance of silicon oxide memories with competing dielectric RRAM technologies."
and transferred to the fiber-optic cable system--similar in some ways to a data transmission line--can heat up the reaction chamber to over 600 degrees Fahrenheit to treat the waste material disinfect pathogens in both feces and urine and produce char.
They also compared their measurements with data from as far back as 2001 and found that some native zooplankton species had nosedived
and then applied the methodology to data from gardenia production in a Georgia nursery. The most convenient method (of calculating profitability) is converting all revenues and costs to constant periodic payments;
The scientists found that controlling irrigation using data from moisture sensors led to substantial reductions in both production time and crop losses.
and provide backup for renewable energy sources that produce intermittent output, such as wind and solar power. But Chiang says the technology is suited also well to applications where weight
This advance has the potential to increase the data transmission rates for the fiber optic cables that serve as the backbone of the internet, cable wireless and landline networks.
The new study presents a solution to a longstanding roadblock to increasing data transmission rates in optical fiber:
Pitch Perfect Data transmission The UC San diego researchersapproach is akin to a concert master who tunes multiple instruments in an orchestra to the same pitch at the beginning of a concert.
one of their biggest limitations is the capacity of their tiny batteries to deliver enough power to transmit data.
which are needed for brief transmissions of data from wearable devices such as heart-rate monitors, computers, or smartphones, the researchers say.
nd it needs to broadcast data, for example using Wi-fi, over a long distance. At the moment, the coin-sized batteries used in many small electronic devices have limited very ability to deliver a lot of power at once,
which is what such data transmissions need. ong-distance Wi-fi requires a fair amount of power,
+the former being clearly visible as a peak in the data, with the latter being required to describe the data fully. enefiting from the large data set provided by the LHC,
and the excellent precision of our detector, we have examined all possibilities for these signals, and conclude that they can only be explained by pentaquark states says LHCB physicist Tomasz Skwarnicki of Syracuse University. ore precisely the states must be formed of two up quarks,
The new data that LHCB will collect in LHC run 2 will allow progress to be made on these questions.
How it works After intense preparation, six-person IBM pro bono consulting teams spend three weeks in the winning region analyzing all available data about a critical issue of the municipality's choosing for example
Syracuse, New york analyzes data to identify homes and neighborhoods that need revitalization. The effort has yielded a 69%increase in collection of delinquent property taxes and fees.
"City leaders from around the world have told us how IBM's advice has helped them re-imagine how they can use data
and other data so that they know where crimes are most likely to occur and assign officers accordingly.
the system can evaluate other data sources to determine if it actually dangerous, or if it a harmless type that naturally occurring
And they already collect crime data. It the analytics that truly make all that useful,
Council Lead Partner Schneider Electric outlines the importance of data analytics and other technologies in transforming a dumb water network into an efficient,
On the technology side, smart water networks include the integration of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA),
meter data management solutions, advanced metering and automated meter reading and more. Those all enhance the ability to prevent the water loss prevalent in dumb systems through leak detection and control, pressure management, equipment repairs and asset management,
A wireless transmitter on the robot sends camera video and sensor data such as the unit's speed,
which requires extensive efficacy data in animal models, but only demands safety testing in people.
and enhanced information discovery through transparency and data mashups. It all sounds like good mom-and-apple-pie stuff,
Congratulations denizens of Austin, Texas, Google Fiber--the company's blazing fast gigabit broadband service--is coming to your city.
They have the option for gigabit Internet or a combination package that includes Google Fiber TV.
or the idea Internet providers should treat all data equally. Also among Google Fiber's offerings is slower Internet access that is free after a $300 fee.
Not long after the Google announcement, AT&T also announced an investment in a gigabit network in Austin.
We re sure these folks will do amazing things with gigabit access. Google Prepares for Fiber Warfare Wall street journal Photo:
the big gigabit reveal and what it means New theory on Google s fiber experiment-a utility revolutio t
Not surprisingly, among the regions hoping to pilot U s. Ignite efforts are some of our favorite gigabit sites,
Sue Spradley, the executive director of U s. Ignite confirmed in a conference call yesterday that the organization is working closely with the new Gigabit Neighborhood Gateway Program to engage additional high-speed communities.
and reducing reliance on backup power systems. Apple describes the benefits of the system within the patent application,
Both the United states and United kingdom governments have stated that they will be making data and transactions available via open APIS.
and data that may have been locked away for years, Mason says. To a large extent, because they are so accessible
It's not just about consuming data, connecting to Amazon or Salesforce. You publish your own APIS as well.
The idea is that the data they collect can drive change, change can drive efficiency,
The machine can also produce original sports stories from data. And what's surprising is that the sports stories aren't actually that bad.
we could generate from existing data. The reality there is a ton of data, but it's numerical data. its not that compelling to most people,
but a story can be. We can do it automatically. We are generating content where it didn't exist before
because we can get to the data and generate these stories. We think we can generate into any sport where there is numerical data.
We are generating college level softball stories. If you go to the Bigtennetwork. com to see the Stats Monkey stories of women's softball.
Our byline is Narrative Science. We get the scores. The system looks at the score, figures out
Anywhere there is data and there is interest. Our hope is to be able to do something for the 2010 census
If we can get hold of data, we can generate a story in a quarter of a second.
As more data comes online we will be there to generate the stories. Here is a movie review.
Doug Short takes a look at the latest data (PDF), on vehicle miles traveled, from the U s. Department of transportation.
when the tsunami knocked out backup diesel generators and reactors overheated.""As the CPR-1000 increases market share, China is assuring that rather than building a fleet of state-of-the-art reactors,
These sensors connect to backend servers that process the data collected, and the information is displayed as requested by the customer.
"the company can crunch the massive amounts of data stored on Google's servers to instantly produce,
Based largely on data from the UK's Stern Review on the Economics of Climate change report,
In other words, the Depaul data is consistent with total bus ridership actually staying constant, with the recognized curbside buses simply taking ridership share from unrecognized Chinatown operators.
#Leaked EU documents rank biofuel emissions higher than crude oil European union politics website Euractive has gotten its hands on official EU data reporting that many biofuel crops release more carbon dioxide than crude oil,
The leaked data present higher carbon costs for biofuels because, for the first time, the analysts incorporated the effects of indirect land use change (ILUC).
Here are the data (g CO2/mj) from the EU documents, incorporating ILUC, for various biofuel crops, thanks to Euractive:
This data could be vital, not only to Evan immediate care but also his long-term health. We purchased a Dexcom G4 CGM in February 2013
We could merge the data from the G4 with reams of nutrition data we had been collecting
but I knew that the Dexcom G4 receiver could furnish glucose data via its USB port.
Dexcom own Windows software was pulling data in this way, and fortunately, Dexcom supplied an API (application programming interface) library as part of its software installation.
and uploaded the data to a Google spreadsheet. We sent Evan to day care with a small laptop equipped with the receiver.
With this data, I wrote an Android app to extract glucose data and upload it to our Google spreadsheet via the cellular network.
In my excitement, I tweeted my discovery. What happened next was incredible. Another iabetes dad, Lane Desborough, contacted me.
These alerts are based on glucose levels uploaded to a database built using the open-source Mongodb platform.
and created an open online database system, we can access the data on a wider range of equipment.
For example, I picked up a Pebble smart watch the first day they were available at retailers
Calif.,thinks he can get as goodr in some cases even betterarthquake data from a network of cheap sensor packages.
off-the-shelf cellphone equipment that manages data gathering and communication. he sensor packages used by the USGS cost about US $30, 000 each,
Next, the researchers performed simulations using data from a hypothetical magnitude-7 earthquake in northern California and from the real 2011 magnitude-9 earthquake that hit Tohoku-oki
They simulated smartphone responses based on census data around the earthquake epicenters and recorded a phone as triggered
would also mark the complete merging of voice into the mobile data stream, a goal long in the making.
along with data traffic, incorporating algorithms that can recover from packet loss, which turns today Voice over internet Protocol (Voip) calls into choppy, unintelligible hash.
They can be implemented in digital signal processing chips as the 7 000-Hz codecs in 4g smartphones are,
it could feed compressed data directly into the Internet data stream for routing directly to other equipped devices,
"a small computer that records data and communicates to a user's smartphone or other systems.
It links data from an implanted blood-sugar sensor to a computer, which then controls how a pump worn on the hip dribbles insulin under the skin through a pipette.
it beams data to the screen of a pager-size reader. He uses the information to help decide what to eat
Once the data is in the servers, there a lot we can do to affect disease management.
For instance, doctors could mine the data for patterns in which patients suffer from low blood sugar,
when new data arrive, says Kowalski. Tuning these algorithms requires big data, gathered from both the individual patient and the larger community of patients.
with each given a probabilistic value based on how well it fitted the data in the past. e can achieve
One reason, says IBM senior manager of Data Centric Systems, John Gunnels, is that the pace of Moore Law has slowed. f you can shrink these chips at the rate you were shrinking them before,
and obtaining data on the presence of water or water-rich minerals. The A6 is scheduled to launch sometime later this year Planetary Resources says it wants to pursue a est oftenphilosophy in building the A3r
Edward Knightly, Rice university Sending wireless data through this 400 megahertz to 700 MHZ slice of spectrum is referred often to as uper Wi-Fibecause of its ability to penetrate through buildings and travel long distances.
The system could deliver 6 times as much data as white space schemes in use today Currently
But under the WATCH system, a user TV viewing information is sent to a spectrum database by smartphone remote control and smart TV.
This database updates the WATCH receiver telling it that it can cancel out the TV broadcast
and use the channel to send data via the WATCH transmitter. If the viewer flips back to that channel
another signal is sent to the spectrum database, updating the WATCH system. The system then would move its data stream to a different channel to keep from interfering with the user TV viewing experience.
WATCH also takes into consideration what channels neighbors are watching, so Wi-fi streaming doesn interfere with their TV signal,
The engineers found that their system could provide six times as much wireless data4 megabits per seconds TV white-space systems in use today
because the lasers can encode data much faster than white LEDS. In the future, the scientists plan to explore
high-energy photon has potential applications in biological imaging, high-density data storage, and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDS) L
what shaping up to be one of the largest corporate data breaches to date.?Every news outlet that did the bidding of the hacking group Guardians of Peace is morally treasonous and spectacularly dishonorable,
but there is data in the breach that worth reporting to the public but not the social security numbers, private and personal information,
but that alone does not mean all the data needed to be revealed in detail by the press if that Sorkin critique,
and o Write Love on Her Arms, alongside large data dumps from inside Sony corporate network.
but corporate IT policies are meant to protect those mistakes from becoming publicly shared data. Sony Pictures, one of the U s. largest studios, has now,
but for legitimate reasons like backup, archiving, or transfer to a new hire). But more importantly, employees dealing with sensitive information seem not to understand that email is not a place where an HR employee needs to be detailing a child medical treatment,
SOPA efforts failed by working with state attorneys general and major ISPS like Comcast to expand court power over the way data is served.
Only a small number of documents have been revealed so far the hackers reportedly captured over 100 terabytes of data.
But also, more generally, that this happened, that this level of private data can be revealed, and that it can be revealed with ease can help us all.
so Baidu is licensing our map data, but we can give any further info unfortunately,
But it less good on that data outside of its domestic market. Mapping and navigation have long been hot areas for platform companies looking for strong positions in mobile.
the first data provider to deliver open access to the commercial real estate marketplace. If you ask a member of the business-tech community about the benefits of closed systems versus their open counterparts,
Once concerned primarily with keeping hackers and other utsidersfrom accessing sensitive data consumers are now more aware of the importance of maintaining personal security and privacy from corporations, governments and other powerful nsiders.
and financial data being up front about long-term goals (or your more agile, wait -and-see approach,
Waze uses user-submitted traffic data to recommend the fastest driving route, which adjusts in real time as the user drives.
if Waze tried to generate this data by itself instead of tapping into the free, unlimited power of collaboration.
The largest data providers have served as arbitrary gatekeepers for the world commercial real estate listings by asking brokers and agencies for info on their available spaces,
and businesses built around proprietary data have an expiration date. If your startup is basing its business model on data that another company could feasibly gather
and give away for free, you can expect that very thing to happen in the near future.
one of the local mental health authorities participating in the Utah Smartcare initiative. his data will allow us to better assess how our clients are doing between appointments
Nielsen data also revealed the impact of streaming video: TV viewing was down 7 percent year-over-year as of October among the 18-49-year-old demographic.
and sends the data back to your home office via Wi-fi. It is powered self and can be removed in minutes.
Fueloyal is unique in that you don have to modify the tank in order to gather the data.
with consistently updated content databases of makes and models currently in use, allows companies to reference the power consumption of each device,
which will have many similarities to existing U k. policies the government is proposing that enterprises be allowed to utilize data from other schemes,
#Following Numerous Data Breaches Dashlane And Lastpass Apps Can Now Reset Passwords For You Data breaches like the ones at Target, Neiman Marcus, Staples, Home depot,
however, that it makes the password changes locally on your machine so it never has access to your data.
The company hopes to do that by combining low-powered wireless connectivity and a smart distribution network for data coming from those devices.
That because the big idea behind Helium is to use unlicensed wireless bandwidth to transmit small amounts of data from various connected device
To do that, the company is developing its own wireless data protocol and wireless modules that can be inserted into devices that manufacturers want to be a part of its network.
since the devices in question would be delivering bytes of data rather than megabytes, it could create its own connection to them in a cost effective manner without relying on existing cellular or Wifi networks.
and transmit small amounts of data from those devices seamlessly. While Helium hopes to build out its own network for devices to connect to
it not ruling out letting devices add data through other networking solutions. After all, as Chandhok told me,
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