31 results about "Entire population" patented technology

The invention provides a method and system for aggregating and pooling information with feedback in a computer communication system. A communication system includes a server device and a set of client devices. Each client device collects information from an associated individual (whether by asking questions of those individuals, or accepting data input from peripheral devices), and transmits that data to a server device. The server device, or some other device at its behest, determines statistical information with regard to that data (such as aggregate, correlation, dispersion, or other measures), and provides that information to a communication channel for distribution to the individuals. The communication channel can include either (1) a broadcast communication channel that members of an affinity group can display, or (2) redistributing the determined statistical measures to associated individuals using the client devices. The statistical measure (such as an aggregate or sum) can be computed and distributed for the entire population, or can be computed and compared for selected sub-populations as a contest.

A method of generating a clinically supplemented risk score using data from an electronic health record system can include collecting data from a plurality of electronic health records; parsing the data into defined fields; comparing the parsed data to at least one look-up table to generate an inferred diagnostic condition; comparing the inferred diagnostic condition to a documented diagnostic condition; mapping the inferred diagnostic condition to at least one condition category; refining the at least one mapped inferred diagnostic condition into a hierarchy to generate a hierarchal mapped conditioned category; and determining via a processor, a risk score in response to the inferred diagnostic condition for the patient in response to the hierarchal mapped conditioned category, the risk score representing an expected total cost of care for the patient relative to the average per-patient cost of care over an entire population.

A tool to assess risks associated with software applications, and controls implemented to mitigate these risks, includes a first software component configured to gather information about the risks and controls, and a second software component configured to display the gathered information. The first software component includes a self-assessment tool which is invoked by a user to enter information reflective of risk levels over a number of risk categories. These risk levels are used to calculate a risk score associated with a particular application. The user also enters information as to whether or not a number of specific control attributes have been implemented, and this information is used to calculate a control score. This process may be repeated for each of several software applications. The second software component allows one to selectively display various subsets, or even the entire population, of the collected information by invoking various combinations of parametric filters on the compiled information.

A comprehensive set of risk groups explicitly identifies groups of individuals with multiple interacting co-morbid conditions, and which explicitly identifies the severity of illness level. This allows accurate prediction of future health care resource needs of an entire population, while simultaneously helping the health care provider isolate problems to identify changes in care to reduce costs and improve quality.

The present invention is a method or apparatus configured for analyzing a data storage device containing a transducer head positionable adjacent a data storage media surface. First, a defect is detected in a region of the surface. Two or more readback signals are obtained, each received during a respective pass of the transducer head adjacent the defective region. The signals are then combined to define a category for the defective region, either automatically or by visual examination of an image. Preferably, all of the read signals are received from the transducer head while the data storage device remains sealed in a substantially opaque chamber. That way, the media defects of an entire population of data storage devices can be analyzed quickly, disassembling the drives for direct visual analysis only on a selective basis.

A method of obtaining a mixture of cells enriched in hepatic progenitors is developed which comprises methods yielding suspensions of a mixture of cell types, and selecting those cells that are classical MHC class I antigen(s) negative and ICAM-1 antigen positive. The weak or dull expression of nonclassical MHC class I antigen(s) can be used for further enrichment of hepatic progenitors. Furthermore, the progenitors can be selected to have a level of side scatter, a measure of granularity or cytoplasmic droplets, that is higher than that in non-parenchymal cells, such as hemopoietic cells, and lower than that in mature parenchymal cells, such as hepatocytes. Furthermore, the progeny of the isolated progenitors can express alpha-fetoprotein and/or albumin and/or CK19. The hepatic progenitors, so isolated, can grow clonally, that is an entire population of progeny can be derived from one cell. The clones of progenitors have a growth pattern in culture of piled-up aggregates or clusters. These methods of isolating the hepatic progenitors are applicable to any vertebrates including human. The hepatic progenitor cell population is expected to be useful for cell therapies, for bioartificial livers, for gene therapies, for vaccine development, and for myriad toxicological, pharmacological, and pharmaceutical programs and investigations.

The invention, which belongs to the field of underwater robots, discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle path planning method in an ocean current environment based on a population super-heuristic algorithm. A population is initialized and initial comprehensive cost values of all individuals in the whole population are obtained according to the cost function; a population basic operation set and a corresponding operation selection probability vector are set; one individual in the population and a population basic operation corresponding to the maximum probability in the operation selection probability vector are selected, the individual is operated, the basic operation of the population is repeated until the entire population is traversed, so that the iteration is completed; the operation selection probability vector is adjusted again and next iteration is carried out until the iteration number reaches a set value; and after iteration completion, an individual with the lowest cost value isselected, one group of control points is formed by combining a starting point, an end point and a fixed control point of a B-spline curve, and an optimal path is generated. Therefore, problems that the path planned based on the existing AUV path planning method is not smooth and is tracked difficultly, and the tracking energy consumption is high are solved.

The Internet is becoming an essential part of our lives. This trend is even stronger with the rise of cell phones having Internet access that almost the entire population carries with them at all times. Security is a huge problem on the Internet, however, and new authentication methods are needed specifically for cell phones. Presented here is a method of identifying a mobile electronic device by its configuration settings, potentially including contact list information. This invention, in particular, fills a crucial need to secure access to the Internet from mobile phones.

A method for measuring a change between two values for one or more data elements over time uses a “delta” value to indicate the significance of the change. The delta value is the difference between the two values, added to the ratio between those values multiplied by an asymptote. Experimental data sets with known values may be used to create data sets to which selection criteria are applied in order to calculate an optimal asymptote for the application of the delta values. This optimal asymptote may then be used for calculating delta values across an entire population for predictive purposes.

Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system that addresses the need for utilization analysis and performance evaluation of providers in a health care organization. The health care data comprising health plan information of consumers, providers, claims, and hospitals is collected, translated, and organized in a structured relational format and stored in standard tables. The organized health care data is analyzed by calculating consumer statistics for a health plan using the health plan information of the consumers. The claims of the consumers are processed to classify the claims based on age, gender, disease, and comorbid conditions of the consumers. A plurality of costs of the health care organization is determined using one or more of the health plan information. The performance of the providers is assessed using the determined plurality of costs. The providers comprising primary care physicians are analyzed based on entire population of the associated consumers.

The invention discloses a family doctor signing method based on an APP, a WeChat client and a webpage terminal. The method comprises the steps of: promoting family doctor signing through a public health examination system and value-added service; monitoring device placement and binding; docking a signed doctor and creating a file; performing information uploading, feedback and completion; buildinga regional medical and health information platform; realizing remote dynamic monitoring and management of chronic diseases in the signed people; providing a mobile internet interactive information platform, etc. The family doctor signing method based on the APP, the WeChat client and the webpage terminal can promote the implementation of family doctor signing service as soon as possible, can forma long-term stable contractual service relationship with residents, and can be gradually extended to the entire population by regional contracting services.

Adherent cells bearing characteristics that are detectable only in the adherent state can be sorted on the basis of these characteristics independently of their adherent state, by applying a transformable label to the entire population of cells, both those bearing the characteristics of interest and those not, in their adherent state and identifying the locations of the cells of interest on the adherent surface. The cells of interest, or all cells other than those of interest, are then selectively treated to transform the labels and achieve differentiation between the cells of interest and the remaining cells. All cells are then released from the adherent state and sorted in the same manner as non-adherent cells but on the basis of whether the labels are transformed or not transformed.

A spatial optimization method for population protein conformation based on diversity indicators, comprising the steps of: firstly using the first stage of Rosetta to assemble in segments to generate an initial population, and using the second stage of Rosetta to assemble in segments to generate a new population; then performing Loop exchange on the conformation for the randomly selected Loop region to realize population reorganization; secondly, mutating each conformation based on the Loop region, merging all new individuals generated by the mutation with the current population, extracting theUSR characteristic information of the conformation to establish a diversity index, and updating the entire population based on the index and energy; finally, further optimizing the entire populationrespectively using the third and fourth stages of Rosetta to obtain the final prediction result. The invention has high sampling efficiency, good diversity, low complexity and high prediction precision.

The invention relates to a sub-population co-evolution-based protein structure prediction method. According to the method, a whole population is divided into a plurality of sub-populations of the samescale; as for the first sub-population, conformations are selected from the other different sub-populations so as to be subjected to variation; as for the second subpopulation, an optimal conformation in a subpopulation where a target conformation is located and conformations in the other subpopulations are selected so as to be subjected to variation; as for the third subpopulation, an optimal conformation in the entire population and the conformations in the other subpopulations are selected so as to be subjected to variation; and as for the other subpopulations, conformations are selected from the subpopulation where the target conformation is located and the other subpopulations are selected so as to be subjected to variation; and a test conformation is updated according to the Boltzmann probability. The sub-population co-evolution-based protein structure prediction method provided by the invention has the advantages of high prediction accuracy and high search efficiency.

The invention discloses a method for optimizing the broken paper splicing and recovery problem through a genetic algorithm. The method is characterized by, to begin with, carrying out gene differenceassessment, and determining horizontal and vertical splicing difference between genes; then, initializing the entire population in a preset encoding mode, and carrying out assessment on chromosome fitness in the population by utilizing the gene difference and recording the optimum chromosome; then, entering an algorithm evolution process, randomly selecting chromosomes in the population as parental chromosomes to form cross combination, executing a cross operator and generating progeny chromosomes; randomly selecting one of four mutation operators to carry out mutation on newly-generated chromosomes and inserting the mutated chromosomes into the population; after execution of the cross and mutation operators, selecting a plurality of optimal individuals from the new population to form a new population; and if meeting termination conditions, terminating evolution and outputting gene arrangement information of the optimal chromosomes, or otherwise, continuing to return to the evolution flow for population evolution.

The invention relates to a negative oxygen ion positioning shower type tristate ion cell regeneration anti-ageing commercial health preserving room, which belongs to the field of the application studyof an air ionization technique in the artificial environmental science, the electro-climatology, the modern physical medicine, convalescence medicine, and 'ion medicine' in self health care medicine.The health preserving room consists of six parts, namely, negative oxygen ion shower single nozzles, far infrared bathroom heaters, a humidifier, a bathroom main body with humiture control function,an ionized water supply device and an ion meal supply device, wherein the negative oxygen ion shower single nozzles ensure that each person uses one of the negative oxygen ion shower single nozzles ina poisoning mode; the humidifier and the far infrared bathroom heaters are commercial products; and the negative oxygen ion shower single nozzles and the far infrared bathroom heaters are evenly distributed on the ceiling or the upper space of the bathroom. The concentration of high-concentration pure negative oxygen ions of the health preserving room can reach 5 to 6 thousand times of that of hydrated hydroxyl negative ions of a tourmaline health preserving room, each person uses one ion shower single nozzle to greatly improve the curative effect and reduce the cost, and thus the health preserving room is favorable for popularization and application and can make a significant contribution to improving the health level of the entire population of a country.