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Question | Answer |
What does OSI stand for? | Open Systems Intereconnection |
What does ISO stand for? | International Standard Organization |
What is CCITT stand for? | Consultative Committee on International Telegraphy and Telephony |
What does CCITT do? | Studying and developing recommendations concerning telecomunication protocols, data transmission, etc..NOW CALLED INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION |
What is ASTM stand for | American Society for Testing Materials |
What does IEEE stand for? | Institute for Electrical And Electronics Engineers |
What does CEN stand for and what do they do? | Comite European de Normalisation - Responsible for standardization efforts in Europe |
What is information | increase in knowledge that me be deduced from set of data from the raw material that facts represent |
Knowledge | Result of successive additions of information to the initial data, information, that itself is considered as a data for the inferences of higher levels |
What are the major components of computer based modeling? | 1) identify the environment, players, and reasons for model 2) identify the objects of the model, granularity , and structural/compartmental props 3) validate the model and adapt it so that it better represents the problem at hand |
List examples of Simple object? | integer, real #, Y/N, pixel |
What is a compound object? | date, character string, non-exclusive, vector, table, aggregate |
What is a complex object ? | Image, graphics, sound, physiological signal |
What is a composite object? | aggregate, record, file |
Database | Defined as a structured non-redundant collection of data and the relationships that associate that data, stored on computer-readable media and designed to serve several applications. |
What is a database management system ? | set of programs that allows a user to interact with the database? |
What is conceptual model ? | describes a global model of reality |
What is the oldest type of DBMS? | Hierarchical model and the network model |
Which type of data do Relational databases have trouble of you? | RDMS are not good for Temporal DAta |
What is Semiology ? | Study of Signs/Symptoms |
What is Precision? | refers to the fidelity of the measurement |
What is accuracy ? | Refers to the tendency of measured values to be symmetrically grouped around the variable's true value |
What is quantitative semiology? | uses tools to evaluate the informational value of medical signs and data? |
What is deductive Reasoning ? | based on logical rules or absolute knowledge that lets us relate propositions |
What is Deduction? | Premise/Pre-existing fact--> logical rules--> conclusion resulting fact |
What is induction? | use the Premise/Pre-existing fact and conclusion/resulting fact to development rules/law? |
What is abduction? | Use resulting fact plus rule/Law to determine the pre-existing fact/premises |
What does Causal REasoning depend upon? | Uses abductive or deductive reasoning, depending on the case |
What is the model that represents physician judgement ? | The Brunswick Lens Model |
What are structural /Fixed costs? | Costs related to existing as a company? |
What is an operating expenses/Variable expenses? | Variable expenses are related to production volumes |
What are direct costs? | Incurred when providing services, Usually includes committed costs and operating expenses? |
What are Marginal Costs? | increase of overall costs related to the production of an additional unit |
What is Average costs? | Total costs divided by the number of service units produced |
What is a cost-benefit analyses ? | compare 2 procedures by evaluating their costs and their results expressed in monetary units |
What is the cost-efficiency analyses? | compare two procedures by evaluating their costs in monetary units and their results in physical units |
What are cost-utility analyses? | compare two or several procedures by evaluating their costs in monetary units and their results expressed qualitatively such as improvement in the quality of life? |
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