The risk of early mortality of polytrauma patients associated to ISS, NISS, APACHE II values and prothrombin time

BACKGROUND: The early hemodynamic normalization of polytrauma patients may lead to better survival outcomes. The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic quality of trauma and physiological scores from widely used scoring systems in polytrauma patients. METHODS: In total, 770 patients with ISS > 16 who were admitted to a trauma center within the first 24 hours after injury were included in this retrospective study. The patients were subdivided into three groups: those who died on the day of admission, those who died within the first three days, and those who survived for longer than three days. ISS, NISS, APACHE II score, and prothrombin time were recorded at admission. RESULTS: The descriptive statistics for early death in polytrauma patients who died on the day of admission, 1--3 days after admission, and > 3 days after admission were: ISS of 41.0, 34.0, and 29.0, respectively; NISS of 50.0, 50.0, and 41.0, respectively; APACHE II score of 30.0, 25.0, and 15.0, respectively; and prothrombin time of 37.0%, 56.0%, and 84%, respectively. These data indicate that prothrombin time (AUC: 0.89) and APACHE II (AUC: 0.88) have the greatest prognostic utility for early death. CONCLUSION: The estimated densities of the scores may suggest a direction for resuscitative procedures in polytrauma patients.Trial registration: "Retrospektive Analysen in der Chirurgischen Intensivmedizin" StV01-2008.http://www.kek.zh.ch/internet/gesundheitsdirektion/kek/de/home.html.

Intensive Metrics for the Study of the Evolution of Open Source Projects: Case Studies from Apache Software Foundation Projects

Based on the empirical evidence that the ratio of email messages in public mailing lists to versioning system commits has remained relatively constant along the history of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), this paper has as goal to study what can be inferred from such a metric for projects of the ASF. We have found that the metric seems to be an intensive metric as it is independent of the size of the project, its activity, or the number of developers, and remains relatively independent of the technology or functional area of the project. Our analysis provides evidence that the metric is related to the technical effervescence and popularity of project, and as such can be a good candidate to measure its healthy evolution. Other, similar metrics -like the ratio of developer messages to commits and the ratio of issue tracker messages to commits- are studied for several projects as well, in order to see if they have similar characteristics.

Tuning compilations by multi-objective optimization: Application to Apache web server

Modern compilers present a great and ever increasing number of options which can modify the features and behavior of a compiled program. Many of these options are often wasted due to the required comprehensive knowledge about both the underlying architecture and the internal processes of the compiler. In this context, it is usual, not having a single design goal but a more complex set of objectives. In addition, the dependencies between different goals are difficult to be a priori inferred. This paper proposes a strategy for tuning the compilation of any given application. This is accomplished by using an automatic variation of the compilation options by means of multi-objective optimization and evolutionary computation commanded by the NSGA-II algorithm. This allows finding compilation options that simultaneously optimize different objectives. The advantages of our proposal are illustrated by means of a case study based on the well-known Apache web server. Our strategy has demonstrated an ability to find improvements up to 7.5% and up to 27% in context switches and L2 cache misses, respectively, and also discovers the most important bottlenecks involved in the application performance.

Supporto ad Applicazioni di Web Reputation basate su Piattaforma Apache Storm

Parametro indispensabile di valutazione di un qualsiasi prodotto o servizio, ai giorni nostri, è la web reputation. Sono sempre più numerose le aziende che monitorano la propria "reputazione online". Quest'ultima può esser definita come l'insieme dei messaggi, commenti e feedbacks, positivi, neutri o negativi che siano, di utenti che esprimono la loro opinione tramite il web su un determinato servizio o prodotto rivolto al pubblico. L’applicazione sviluppata, si pone l’obiettivo di analizzare in tempo reale tramite l’utilizzo di Apache Storm, dati provenienti da fonti eterogenee, classificarli tramite KNIME utilizzando tecniche di classificazione quali SVM, alberi decisionali e Naive Bayesian, renderli persistenti mediante l’utilizzo del database NoSQL HBASE e di visualizzarli in tempo reale attraverso dei grafici utilizzando delle servlet, al fine di costituire un valido strumento di supporto per i processi decisionali.

The pursuit of the Apache chief : a story of the campaign against Geronimo /

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Preliminary reconnaissance for uranium in Apache and Cochise Counties, Arizona, 1950 to 1957 /

"Supersedes PB's 172477 and 172478."

Reconnaissance of the Chinle formation in the Cameron-St. Johns area Coconino, Navajo and Apache Counties, Arizona /

On cover: Exploration division, Grand Junction Operations Office, Grand Junction, Colorado.

Geologic reconnaissance of the Defiance Uplift, Apache County, Arizona /

"November 15, 1954."

Tonio, son of the Sierras; a story of the Apache war,

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Through Apache land,

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Important farmlands of Apache County Arizona /

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Adventures in the Apache country; a tour through Arizona and Sonora, with notes on the silver regions of Nevada.

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