Automated conversational post-visit API

Effective follow-up is important for patient health recovery. This disclosure describes automated and natural language enabled follow-up of patients in healthcare settings. Information pertaining to multiple health conditions and treatments is archived. Subsequent to a patient visit to a provider and with explicit permission from the patient, a natural language post-visit application program interface (API) is utilized in a telephonic dialog with the patient. Queries are posed to the patient with regard to specific issues experienced by the patient. With user permission, user responses are analyzed and suitable actions are executed by utilizing the post-visit API. Past interactions are utilized, and interpretation or corrective action is performed only upon permission from the user

Enhanced electronic whiteboard

This disclosure describes an enhanced electronic whiteboard for visualization of cloud-based computing solutions. The electronic whiteboard includes technical icons that represent cloud computing solution elements and enables users to depict and manipulate various computer architectures. The electronic whiteboard is integrated with cloud migration solution software for collaborative design, sales presentations, and simulation. Depicting technical architectures is made possible by providing icons for servers, storage, networking appliances, etc. that can be dragged and dropped onto the whiteboard. With user permission, machine learning techniques are utilized to auto-populate operating data relevant to different architectures

Embedded tool for self-directed sales and onboarding

This disclosure describes an embedded link (button) within a video or other media content that enables users to obtain additional information and perform self-directed onboarding, e.g., to an online service. Per techniques of this disclosure, an embedded link is provided within a video, document, email message, etc. that enables the user to navigate to a portal that is a source of additional information and that offers a self-directed onboarding process for the online service. The customized onboarding portal is utilized to obtain additional user information. Based on the user provided information, solution options, e.g., specific service configurations, are presented to the user

The relationship between Centaur activity and ring formation

Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 22-25).Introduction: Centaurs are small bodies whose orbits lie between those of Jupiter and Neptune (Gehrels, 1999). They are thought to be transition objects that originate in the Kuiper belt and occupy the cis-Neptunian region before potentially becoming Jupiter-family or other short-period comets (Dones, Levison, & Duncan, 1996). Their short dynamical lifetimes are on the order of 106 years (Horner, Evans, & Bailey, 2004) due to their unstable, planet-crossing orbits (Horner, Evans, Bailey, & Asher, 2003). Some Centaurs have been observed to be active, and the bodies in the population of active Centaurs have perihelion distances that are statistically smaller than the median perihelion distance for all Centaurs, suggesting that Centaur activity is thermal in nature (Jewitt, 2009). Centaur activity may be observed through changes in the brightness of an object such as those exhibited by the Centaur Chiron (Parker et al., 1997). The presence of a coma around a Centaur may also provide evidence of activity, and dust comae have been detected around several bodies including Chiron (Meech & Belton, 1989; Luu & Jewitt, 1990) and Echeclus (Choi, Weissman, & Polishook, 2006). In addition to comae, other structures have been observed around Centaurs, such as the ring system that was discovered around Chariklo during a stellar occultation (Braga-Ribas et al., 2014). A symmetric feature was observed around Chiron during an occultation (Ruprecht et al., 2015), and some interpret this feature to be possible ring material (Ortiz et al., 2015). Similarly, the trans-Neptunian dwarf planet Haumea was revealed to have a ring during a stellar occultation (Ortiz et al., 2017). The collisional spreading time of Chariklo's rings was calculated to be on the order of 101 years, which is short in comparison to the estimated Centaur lifetime of approximately 106 years (Pan & Wu, 2016), yet Centaur rings are still observed despite this contradiction. Shepherd satellites may serve to increase the lifetime of a Centaur's rings (Pan & Wu, 2016) and maintain distinct ring edges such as those observed in Chariklo's ring system (Charnoz, Canup, Crida, Dones, 2017). Moreover, Centaur activity could supply material to an already present ring system, thus prolonging its lifetime. This study explores the potential connection between Centaur activity and Centaur ring systems by using the N-body integrator REBOUND to model outburst particle interactions and distributions.by Sophia E. Tigges.S.B

Informationssuchverhalten als Grundlage für die Gestaltung von Veranstaltungen zum Erwerb von Informationskompetenz

Für die Gestaltung bibliothekarischer Veranstaltungen zum Erwerb von Informationskompetenz stellen die bisherigen Ergebnisse und Befunde der Forschung zum Informationssuchverhalten eine wertvolle Grundlage dar, indem bestimmte und v.a. typische Verhaltensmuster, Routinen und Präferenzen im Umgang mit Informationsressourcen und Informationen in konzeptionelle und inhaltliche Anpassungen von IK- Veranstaltungen eingebracht und eingesetzt werden. Das Informationssuchverhalten untersucht sowohl individuelle als auch kollektive Informationsprozesse und Faktoren, die diese maßgeblich beeinflussen. Hierzu werden der gesamte Informationsprozess oder einzelne Abschnitte untersucht, die den Information Need, Seeking und Using (INSU)-Prozess bilden. Die Befunde der einzelnen INSU-Prozesses-Einheiten zeigen, dass Faktoren wie Informationsbedarf, Informationsart und -form sowie die Einbindung in übergeordnete Arbeitsprozesse wesentlichen Einfluss auf das Informationssuchverhalten haben. Des Weiteren konnte die ISB-Forschung eine Klassifizierung von Benutzergruppen entwickeln und z.B. Fast Surfers, Broad Scanners und Deep Divers charakterisieren bzw. auch das Bouncing oder Flicking Behavior beschreiben. Hinzu kommen mehrere Modelle, die Informationssuchverhalten und Informationsverhalten in bestimmten Situationen nachbilden und darstellen können

Periodic motor impairments in a case of 48-hour bipolar ultrarapid cycling before and under treatment with valproate

Motor impairments of psychiatric patients can be assessed with digital recordings of handwriting tasks. The investigation of patients with bipolar affective disorders differentiates intraindividual changes related to the patient's fluctuating affective states. An unmedicated 67-year-old male with 48-hour bipolar ultrarapid cycling was investigated during 8 consecutive days of ultrarapid cycling and 4 weeks later, after remission under treatment with valproate. The handwriting skills of the patient followed the same rhythmic changes of the psychopathology in the first part of the study and a steady pattern in the second phase, after remission. Therefore, it can be assumed that the handwriting skills reflect a state marker of the disease. Poorer handwriting skills on the manic days, as compared to the depressive ones, support the hypothesis of a low arousal in manic patients. Copyright (C) 2000 S. Karger AG, Basel

Emergency preparedness: An analysis of Iowa high school emergency preparedness plans

The purpose of this research study was to examine whether high schools across Iowa were effectively prepared in the event of a natural or manmade disaster. Students learn more effectively when they feel safe. An electronic survey was sent to all accredited high school principals across Iowa in an effort to obtain data on their school\u27s emergency preparedness plans and to ascertain their attitudes on the importance of policies to deter violence. In addition to questions regarding development and completeness of plans, frequency of school incidents and perceived importance of policies, principals were asked to identify eight independent variables associated with demographics: (1) participant title; (2) gender; (3) years of experience; (4) Area Education Agency (AEA); (5) type of accredited school (public, charter, nonpublic, or other); (6) grade levels; (7) enrollment size of high school; and (8) urbanicity of school campus (rural, town, urban fringe of a large city, or city). Nearly all of the 72 Iowa high school principals who participated in the survey have an emergency preparedness plan in place, and approximately 75% of these Iowa high schools have two or more copies of their emergency preparedness plan placed throughout their school. Approximately 75% of the Iowa\u27s high school principals participating in the survey have had at least one practice drill at their school during the last five years, and nearly 42% of these principals believe their high school is at risk for an act of terrorism. Overall results showed urban fringe and city high schools participating in the survey had more safety and security measures in place in their high schools. It is recommended that further studies be conducted to analyze high school emergency preparedness include middle school as well as high school principals to broaden the researcher\u27s survey base and strengthen statistical reliability. It is also recommended the Principal Questionnaire School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), a national survey sent out by the U. S. Department of Education, be utilized to compare national statistics on middle and high school principal safety measures and procedures to state and local statistics