Processing document images on the telco network

Documentation image processing, an important information service made possible by greater network bandwidth and optical storage capacities in public communications networks, is discussed. Document image technology converts physical records and documents into digitized images for task processing and archival storage on magnetic or optical media. Imaging systems facilitate rapid retrieval and efficient document flow among users connected to information networks, replacing traditionally manual processes with a more efficient mechanized work flow. The customer requirements for document image processing, telephone company capabilities, and a typical example of customer document imaging are presented     

Resistance of eels (Gymnothorax) to the venom of sea kraits (Laticauda colubrina): a test of coevolution

This study calculated yearly estimated national hospital discharge (1985 to 1994) and age-adjusted death rates (1980 to 1992) due to bacterial, viral, protozoal, and ill-defined enteric pathogens. Infant and young child hospitalization (but not death) rates in each category increased more than 50% during 1990 to 1994. Age-adjusted death and hospitalization rates due to enteric bacterial infections and hospitalizations due to enteric viral infections have increased since 1988. The increases in hospitalization and death rates from enteric bacterial infections were due to a more than eightfold increase in rates for specified enteric bacterial infections that were uncoded during this period (ICD9 00849). To identify bacterial agents responsible for most of these infections, hospital discharges and outpatient claims (coded with more detail after 1992) were examined for New Mexico's Lovelace Health Systems for 1993 to 1996. Of diseases due to uncoded enteric pathogens, 73% were due to Clostridium difficile infection. Also, 88% of Washington State death certificates (1985 to 1996) coded to unspecified enteric pathogen infections (ICD0084) listed C. difficile infection.