Investigative Journalism in China: Eight Cases in Chinese Watchdog Journalism
This volume offers a comprehensive, first-hand look at investigative journalism in China, including insider accounts from reporters behind some of China's top stories in recent years.
Blood.Health.FOAF: Extending FOAF with Blood Ontology
Blood is the life in our vessels. It makes up the 8% of our body weight. Loss of blood from 750 ml to 2000 ml is enough to enter us to shock condition due to loss of circulating volume. In situations like these, urgent blood transfusion needs to be handled with extensive care. Not all emergency services may have haematology experts, a good helper application with blood transfusion rules that also determines the possible donors for each patient is necessary. In this paper, we present blood ontology that is an extension of FOAF ontology to serve as a core service of blood transfusion process. We had researched the possible blood transfusion rules of different health organization all over the world and highlight the blood transfusion rules. These rules are embedded to a ontology structure includes blood, FOAF and Relationship ontologies. This ontology structure not only serves as storage for patient and donor information, but also as a knowledge extraction structure to determine the possible donors and help doctors in treatment.
The costs of identifying undiagnosed prostate cancer in asymptomatic men in New Zealand general practice
Background. Screening for prostate cancer (PCa) using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is widespread in New Zealand. 3 informed testing history in 2007–09 were NZ$8887 compared to NZ$13 870 if the men had PSA tests in 2007–09. If we assumed a PSA test involved a full 15-minute general practice consultation, the estimated costs increased to NZ$26 877 per PCa identified. Conclusions. Screening of asymptomatic men for PCa is widely practiced. Most of the costs of screening were incurred in general practice. Calls for men to receive increased information on the harms and benefits of screening will substantially increase the costs. The current costs could be reduced by better targeting of screening.