News tagged with emerging model

Improving emergency evacuation planning with decision-making simulation

A unique disaster-response planning tool takes real-time human decision-making into account to determine effective law-enforcement strategies during evacuations. A University of Michigan researcher contributed to the development ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 05, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Computer model better than clinical judgment for diagnosing fever in young children

A computerised diagnostic model outperforms clinical judgement for the diagnosis of fever in young children, and may improve early treatment, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Strategies to reduce HIV treatment dropout rates: cost-effective and improve survival chances

In a study published this week in PLoS Medicine, Elena Losina (of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston) and colleagues predict that strategies to reduce dropout rates from HIV treatment programs in resource-poor settin ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Report: Flu might fill up hospitals in 15 states

(AP) -- If a third of people wind up catching swine flu, 15 states could run out of hospital beds around the time the outbreak peaks, a new report warns Thursday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Improved techniques will help control heat in large data centers

Approximately a third of the electricity consumed by large data centers doesn't power the computer servers that conduct online transactions, serve Web pages or store information. Instead, that electricity ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0