217 research outputs found
Master of Science
thesisThe Residency Review Committee (RRC) requires that general surgery residents document their Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) experiences. To satisfy these requirements we created a web based intranet log to make it easier for residents to track their patients and determine when these requirements were complete. A premium was put on usability to promote acceptance by surgical residents. A prototype web site was designed with input from an attending general surgeon. Three general surgery residents were selected to participate in the iterative design phase. They went through three iterations using a "think-aloud" method while performing tasks on the prototype web site. Each iteration led to improvements to the web site. In a comparison test, a group of seven medical students performed 14 typical web site tasks using both the prototype and the final versions. They were asked to complete a Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction (QUIS) for each version. The time for completion of these tasks was also recorded. The user interaction satisfaction did not show any improvement (F(1,6)=0.13, p=0.912). Similarly, there was no improvement in times for delete and add tasks ( Delete F(1,5) = 0.949, p=0.375, Add F(1,5)=0.267, p=0.628 ); however, the time to complete edit tasks was faster for the final version of the web site (F (1,5)= 14.3, p=0.013). The primary reason for not detecting other differences between the two web sites is likely that the comparison study did not have sufficient power. This was suggested by the participants whose comments favored the final version over the prototype as well as a trend of consistently higher mean subset scores in the final version. The results indicate that differences may be seen when more complex tasks are completed (editing information) versus the two simpler tasks (adding or deleting a patient record in a web site). Future studies should focus on the impact of navigation strategies on speed and data warehouse approaches to creating the application. This study shows the benefits of using an iterative design approach to create a usable web site and demonstrates the importance of further research in the field of usability
Linear orthogonality preservers of Hilbert bundles
Due to the corresponding fact concerning Hilbert spaces, it is natural to ask
if the linearity and the orthogonality structure of a Hilbert -module
determine its -algebra-valued inner product. We verify this in the case
when the -algebra is commutative (or equivalently, we consider a Hilbert
bundle over a locally compact Hausdorff space). More precisely, a
-linear map (not assumed to be bounded) between two
Hilbert -modules is said to be "orthogonality preserving" if
\left =0 whenever \left =0. We prove
that if is an orthogonality preserving map from a full Hilbert
-module into another Hilbert -module that
satisfies a weaker notion of -linearity (known as "localness"),
then is bounded and there exists such that
\left\ =\ \phi\cdot\left, \quad \forall
x,y \in E. On the other hand, if is a full Hilbert -module over
another commutative -algebra , we show that a
"bi-orthogonality preserving" bijective map with some "local-type
property" will be bounded and satisfy \left\ =\
\phi\cdot\left\circ\sigma, \quad \forall x,y \in E where and is a homeomorphism
Linear orthogonality preservers of Hilbert -modules over general -algebras
As a partial generalisation of the Uhlhorn theorem to Hilbert -modules,
we show in this article that the module structure and the orthogonality
structure of a Hilbert -module determine its Hilbert -module
structure. In fact, we have a more general result as follows. Let be a
-algebra, and be Hilbert -modules, and be the ideal of
generated by . If is an
-module map, not assumed to be bounded but satisfying then there exists a unique central positive multiplier such
that As a consequence, is automatically bounded, the induced
map is adjointable, and
is isomorphic to as Hilbert -modules. If, in addition,
is bijective, then is isomorphic to .Comment: 15 page
Zero product preserving linear maps of CCR C∗-algebras with Hausdorff spectrum
AbstractIn this paper, we try to attack a conjecture of Araujo and Jarosz that every bijective linear map θ between C∗-algebras, with both θ and its inverse θ−1 preserving zero products, arises from an algebra isomorphism followed by a central multiplier. We show it is true for CCR C∗-algebras with Hausdorff spectrum, and in general, some special C∗-algebras associated to continuous fields of C∗-algebras
Property (T) for non-unital C*-algebras
Inspired by the recent work of Bekka, we study two reasonable analogues of
property (T) for not necessarily unital C*-algebras. The stronger one of the
two is called ``property (T)'' and the weaker one is called ``property
(T_{e})''. It is shown that all non-unital C*-algebras do not have property (T)
(neither do their unitalizations). Moreover, all non-unital -unital
C*-algebras do not have property (T_e).Comment: 7 pages; to appear in J. Math. Anal. App
Hemolysis and methemoglobinemia due to hepatitis E virus infection in patient with G6PD deficiency
published_or_final_versionSpringer Open Choice, 21 Feb 201
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