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From the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division (Drs Goldstein and Kollef and Ms Ward), Division of General Medical Sciences (Dr Gage), and Department of Internal Medicine (Drs Goldstein, Kollef, and Gage and Ms Ward), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo.
Rapid D-dimer assays are being used in the diagnostic evaluation of suspected pulmonary embolism (PE). Although this hypothesis is anticipated to decrease the use of ventilation-perfusion (VQ) scans and other diagnostic tests for PE, it has not been tested in a "real-world" environment.
Subjects and Methods
A randomized prospective trial was conducted on 470 of the 5390 enrolled patients aged 60 years and older who had previously undergone any diagnostic tests for PE at an urban teaching hospital. The use of D-dimer as part of the diagnostic evaluation for PE was promulgated in the 2 randomly chosen intervention firms. The remaining 2 firms served as controls.
Main Outcome Measures
The number of VQ scans, spiral computed tomographic scans, and pulmonary angiograms performed. Secondary outcomes included mortality and thromboembolic or bleeding events during 3 months of follow-up.
Of the 470 inpatients who underwent evaluation for PE on a per PE workup basis, fewer VQ scans were performed in the intervention firms (63.8% vs 81.3%; P<.01). However, the number of patients evaluated for PE nearly doubled in the intervention firms (304 vs 166; P<.01), so that more VQ scans were performed in the intervention than in the control firms (194 vs 135; P<.01). Ninety-four patients from the control firms and 160 patients from the intervention firms were diagnosed and treated for venous thromboembolic disease (P<.01). There were no differences in secondary outcomes during the 3-month follow-up.
The introduction of a rapid D-dimer assay increased the number of VQ scans performed because the number of patients screened for PE increased. A larger number of patients in the intervention firms were diagnosed as having venous thromboembolic disease (PE and/or deep vein thrombosis). There were no perceived changes in mortality or venous thromboembolic events during the 3-month follow-up.
PULMONARY embolism (PE) is a serious and life-threatening disease that has an incidence of 23 per 100 000 patient-years and causes 200 000 deaths annually in the United States, with untreated mortality rates as high as 30%.1 Among treated patients, fatal PE is a rare event,2 with clinical recurrence occurring in 8% to 26%.2,3 Thus, the goal of treatment is to prevent death from the initial and recurrent PEs and generally consists of the administration of intravenous heparin followed by at least 6 months of oral anticoagulation.1,4 Because anticoagulant use can cause serious complications, including fatal hemorrhage,5 accurate diagnosis of PE is crucial.
With no pathognomonic clinical features, the diagnosis of PE requires objective testing. Pulmonary angiography is the gold standard technique for diagnosis of PE6; however, it is costly, invasive, and not uniformly available. Noninvasive procedures, such as the radioisotope ventilation-perfusion (VQ) scan and lower extremity duplex ultrasonography, have simplified the diagnostic approach to venous thromboembolic (VTE) disease. However lung scans are costly and are diagnostic in only 30% to 50% of patients with suspected PE,7- 9 while duplex ultrasonography reveals a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in only 8% to 19% of patients who have a nondiagnostic lung scan.9- 13
Plasma D-dimer (DD) is a cross-linked fibrin degradation product, resulting from activation of the coagulation and fibrinolysis processes. Plasma DD has been extensively studied in the setting of suspected PE and DVT.14- 24 Using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) at the clinically validated cutoff value of 500 µg/L, the specificity of DD is low (20%-50%), but the sensitivity approaches 95%, with a normal DD level virtually excluding the diagnosis of PE in low-risk patient populations.14- 19 Recently, a whole blood agglutination assay SimpliRED (AGEN Biomedical Ltd, Queensland, Australia) has been developed as a novel DD assay that is easier and faster to perform than the ELISA-based tests. We have shown previously that DD determination by the SimpliRED method has a high sensitivity and negative predictive value for VTE among patients admitted to a medical intensive care unit.20 Based on this experience, we performed an investigation with 2 goals: (1) to determine how the availability of a rapid DD test affected the diagnostic evaluation of suspected PE and (2) to assess the safety of using a rapid DD assay in clinical practice.
The study was conducted within the inpatient medical wards of Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, Mo, a 1200-bed, urban teaching hospital. The inpatient teaching medical service at Barnes-Jewish Hospital is divided into 4 similar firms (A, B, C, and D). Patients hospitalized in the medical wards of firms A, B, C, or D between September 1999 and February 2000 were included in the study if they underwent any diagnostic testing for clinically suspected PE, including a VQ scan, pulmonary angiogram, DD test, or spiral computed tomogram. Group randomization was achieved by making the DD test readily available to patients admitted to firms B and D (intervention firms) and discouraging its use in firms A and C (control firms). To enlist house staff cooperation with our study, we undertook several formal educational talks with the house staff of all 4 firms, as well as providing house staff and attending physicians with information on the purpose of this investigation. For the intervention firms, we presented current literature regarding the applicability of the SimpliRED assay, including its test characteristics and its utility as a screening tool in non–high-risk patients. To the control firms, we explained the study protocol and requested that suspected PE be investigated in the traditional manner, without using the SimpliRED assay. Using this approach, we planned to study the impact that the introduction of the DD assay would have on test ordering and clinical outcomes. Control and intervention firms were randomly assigned. The Human Studies Committee of Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, approved the study protocol and waived the need for patients' written informed consent.
A dedicated clinical research nurse (S.W.) prospectively recorded data from the patients' medical records, bedside computerized nursing station (EMTEK Health Care Systems, Tempe, Ariz), and the hospital's mainframe computer. She recorded the following admission variables: age, sex, admission diagnosis, and preadmission diagnoses of comorbid conditions (malignancy, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and the presence of infection). During the patient's hospitalization, she recorded the ordering and results of diagnostic tests performed for the evaluation of suspected PE including: DD assay, VQ scan, spiral computed tomography, and pulmonary angiography. At 3 months after hospital discharge, the research nurse telephoned participants to assess for the following outcomes: death, recurrent VTE events, and bleeding complications.
We used a recently developed assay for the rapid detection of plasma DD (SimpliRED). The test reagent contains a composite antibody formed by the conjugation of a monoclonal antibody that reacts with high affinity to a site on the γ-chain of DD (3B6/22), with a red cell–binding antibody (RAT-1C3/86). In the presence of elevated levels of DD, the antibody induces agglutination of the patient's red blood cells.20
Trained laboratory personnel, who were blinded to the clinical data, performed all tests. Blood samples for DD determination were requested to be drawn within 24 hours of the clinical suspicion for PE. For each test sample, a 10-µL drop of whole blood was instilled by pipette into a reaction well on an agglutination tray. One drop of test reagent was added to the blood sample and mixed using gentle rocking of the agglutination tray for 2 minutes. Although it is possible to grade the degree of red cell agglutination with the SimpliRED DD test, for the purposes of this study a DD test was defined as positive if any agglutination was observed and negative if no agglutination was observed.20
For the purpose of this study, the diagnosis of VTE (PE and/or DVT) was considered established if the firm physician team instituted a therapeutic intervention (anticoagulation, thrombolysis, or inferior vena cava filter placement) following performance and interpretation of appropriate diagnostic tests (VQ scan, spiral computed tomography, pulmonary angiography, duplex ultrasonography).
The primary outcome measure was the number of VQ scans, pulmonary angiograms, and spiral computed tomographic scans ordered in each group for the evaluation of suspected PE. Secondary outcomes included mortality, duration of hospitalization, and 3-month incidence of recurrent VTE events or bleeding complications. All comparisons were unpaired and tests of significance were 2-tailed. Continuous variables were compared using the t test for normally distributed variables and the Wilcoxon rank sum test for nonnormally distributed variables. The χ2 or Fisher exact tests were used to compare categorical variables. The primary data analysis compared patients in control firms (A and C) with patients in intervention firms (B and D). Logistic regression analysis was used to test the relationship between DD result and patient age and comorbidities. The proportion of patients undergoing VQ scanning was compared using standard methods (Snedecor and Cochran).
A total of 470 consecutive patients being evaluated for clinically suspected PE from firms A, B, C, and D were enrolled in the study. During enrollment, the total number of inpatient admissions were similar among the 2 groups (2700 in the control firms vs 2690 in the intervention firms). At the time of enrollment, no significant differences were found among the intervention and control firms regarding sex, ethnicity, presence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, malignancy, clinical infection, recent surgery, immunocompromised state, or receipt of DVT prophylaxis, but patients in the intervention group were older (Table 1).
In the intervention firms, significantly more patients were investigated for possible PE (of the 2690 enrollees: 304 [11.3%] vs 166 [6.2%]; P<.01). Among the patients investigated for PE (Figure 1), the intervention group had significantly more DD assays performed (191 [62.8%] vs 53 [31.9%]; P<.01) and a lower rate of VQ scans (194 [63.8%] vs 135 [81.3%]; P<.01) performed.
Diagnostic tests performed per clinically suspected episode of pulmonary embolism (n = 470). VQ indicates ventilation-perfusion; PA-Gram, pulmonary angiogram; and CT, computed tomography.
From the total inpatient firm pool, the intervention group underwent significantly more DD assays (191 [7.1%] vs 53 [2.0%]; P<.01) and a greater rate of VQ scans (194 [7.2%] vs 135 [5.0%]; P<.01). There was no difference between the 2 groups in the use of spiral computed tomography or pulmonary angiography (Figure 2).
Diagnostic tests performed per intervention group (n = 2690) and control group (n = 2700). VQ indicates ventilation-perfusion; PA-Gram, pulmonary angiogram; and CT, computed tomography.
Among patients having a DD assay (n = 244), those in the intervention group demonstrated a trend toward a lower likelihood of having a positive DD assay compared with patients in the control group (89 [46.6%] vs 32 [60.4%]; P = .08). Logistic regression analysis showed that the presence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 3.3; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.1-5.2; P = .007), clinical infection (AOR, 2.0; 95% CI, 1.5-2.7; P = .02), and increasing patient age (1-year increments) (AOR, 1.04; 95% CI, 1.03-1.05; P<.001) were independently associated with a positive DD assay result. Patients with a positive DD assay were more likely to undergo a VQ scan than patients with a negative assay (58.7% vs 30.1%; P<.01).
Overall more VTE episodes were diagnosed in the intervention group (160 of 2690 admissions) than in the control group (94 of 2700 admissions) (P<.01). Patients in the intervention group were also more likely to undergo a VQ scan in the case of a positive DD assay (64.0% vs 43.8%; P = .046).
The sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value, and positive predictive value of the SimpliRED assay, with the 95% CIs, were as follows: 60.0% (51.5%-68.5%), 53.0% (44.0%-62.0%), 50.4% (41.6%-59.2%), and 54.5% (45.7%-63.3%).
No statistically significant differences were detected in hospital mortality or length of stay between the 2 groups. Of the patients in the control and intervention firms, 45% and 48%, respectively, were successfully reached for the 3-month follow-up. No differences were detected in total mortality, recurrent VTE events, or bleeding complications (Table 2).
Our study demonstrated that the introduction of the SimpliRED DD assay resulted in an increase in the number of VQ scans performed. The availability of this rapid, inexpensive, and sensitive test also resulted in an increase in the number of patients screened for PE, as well as increasing the numbers of patients diagnosed as having VTE. The prevalence of a negative assay (49.6%) was fairly high even in a medical inpatient population with multiple comorbidities.
Our study was unique in that it was based in a "real-world" environment where the ultimate decisions regarding the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches were determined by individual physicians. Contrary to predictions23- 28 that the introduction of a DD assay would reduce more costly and invasive tests for PE, the widespread adoption of a DD assay increased resource utilization by increasing the number of patients screened for PE. The increased screening resulted in a significant increase in the number of VTE events diagnosed. We were unable to show a difference in mortality or in the occurrence of recurrent VTE events at 3-month follow-up. However, follow-up was incomplete and the study was not designed or powered to detect such potential differences.
Given the excellent reported negative predictive value of DD assays in non–high-risk patients, several investigators have predicted that the use of DD would decrease the number of VQ scans performed in patients with suspected PE.23- 29 Ginsberg and colleagues24 showed that a normal DD result by SimpliRED was useful in excluding PE in patients who had a low clinical suspicion for PE, with a negative predictive value of 99%. Because 44% of the participants had a low pretest probability, they hypothesized that introduction of a DD assay would reduce the number of VQ scans significantly. De Moerloose and colleagues29 evaluated a rapid ELISA method in 195 emergency department patients with suspected PE; 29% of these patients had a negative DD result and none of them experienced thromboembolic events during 6 months of follow-up. The authors thus speculated that 29% of the emergency department patients could have avoided further testing. Oger and coworkers28 studied 386 patients in the emergency department with suspected PE using a rapid ELISA (Liatest). They demonstrated a sensitivity of 100% for PE, with 21% of their patients having a negative test result. This study also speculated that DD would reduce further investigations and shorten hospital stay. However, the impact of introducing a DD assay on physicians' ordering patterns had never been tested previously. We found that the introduction of SimpliRED had the effect of increasing use of VQ scans due to the increase in the number of patients screened for VTE.
This increased utilization of a DD assay is precedented by other situations in which the introduction of safer, quicker, inexpensive, or more sensitive tests have increased the number of patients screened for disease. Examples include the impact of prostate-specific antigen determinations on the frequency of prostatic biopsies,30 as well as diagnostic tests for colorectal cancer following the introduction of stool occult blood testing.31 Similarly, a readily available assay for DD such as SimpliRED, which is inexpensive and noninvasive, may allow greater numbers of patients to be screened for VTE, resulting in more diagnoses of VTE as well as greater overall diagnostic test utilization.
Our study has several limitations. First, it was performed within a single institution using patients cared for by house staff who had been educated about the usefulness and limitation of DD testing, and as such may not be generalizable to some settings. Second, the study was limited to medical inpatients and is not applicable to nonmedical specialties (eg, surgical or obstetrical patients) or to outpatients. Third, despite discouraging its use, 32% of patients in the control group had DD tests performed. Fourth, 3-month follow-up was incomplete with approximately 50% of patients being available for follow-up. Finally, we did not dictate the utilization of diagnostic tests or treatment for VTE. Therefore, comparisons with other institutions using different diagnostic and therapeutic approaches is problematic.
The introduction of the SimpliRED DD assay in medical inpatients with clinically suspected PE resulted in a significant increase in the number of patients diagnosed as having VTE, at the expense of a significant increase in VQ scans ordered. Despite the overall increase in the screening for PE, the utilization of VQ scans per individual workup was reduced. The introduction of the SimpliRED assay did not result in any changes in mortality or recurrent VTE at 3 months' follow-up. Despite advanced age and multiple comorbidities, half of the medical inpatients in this study had a negative DD assay. We conclude that the unrestricted use of the SimpliRED DD assay in medical inpatients resulted in an increase in the number of VTE events diagnosed at the cost of increased VQ scanning with no significant change in mortality or recurrent VTE events at 3 months. Larger mortality and cost-effectiveness studies are needed to evaluate whether the increase in VTE events diagnosed with the availability of DD assays justifies the increased utilization of VQ scanning.
Accepted for publication September 14, 2000.
We thank Sam Santoro, MD, for his assistance in establishing the SimpliRED assay in the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Laboratory, as well as Charles E. Trunk, RPh, MBA, and Scott R. Early, RPh, for their assistance in tracking VQ scans.
Corresponding author: Marin H. Kollef, MD, Campus Box 8052, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63110 (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com).
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Teaching Despite the System
I have a friend who is a teacher. We've been talking over the past few years about lots of different things, one of those being her career as a teacher, all the things that she does, the students she teaches, the materials she uses, and the educational system in general. Great conversations, to tell you the truth. The things that teachers do these days, teaching our children, future generations, if you will. They are, in effect, responsible for the education of our future leaders, our future workers, our future military, our future thinkers, our future educators, and so many more. They have a huge responsibility. And for the most part, most of them are doing a tremendous job. Well, they're doing a tremendous job despite what they have been given in an education system that is becoming more and more difficult to teach in, more dysfunctional, and even to learn in.
In some areas the system is getting better. People are starting to recognize more the importance of proper health care and nutrition, and how that impacts our students abilities to learn. At least here in the Boulder Valley School District of Colorado, they are starting to serve healthier lunch choices, not such heavy carbs that inhibits the student's ability to learn. So kudos to the food services group here in BVSD.
Every two to four years the system has the potential of significant changes made, typically not for the better, but simply because there's someone new in political office. Mostly because this time around the election swung from a D to an R, or back again. Funny thing is, that that elected official is a lawyer or salesman or rancher or whatever, not an educator. I can't think of one who is or was an educator. But they seem to have this grand idea of how the education system could be better. Oh wait, not that. It's because the politicians corporate donors have a better idea of how the education system should be run, one in which would benefit the corporation financially. One that would produce worker drones for future jobs in the corporate world.
No child left behind. Or, as it should be called, leave all children behind. Or was it leaving no child left behind on the road to nowhere. This plan has to date been the worst for our education system.
One of the big issues I have with the education system is the standardized tests. More and more, teachers are forced to teach to the tests, not the subject matter. Teach how to take the tests better. How well the student does has an impact on how well the teacher is graded, how well the school is graded, how well the school district is graded, and so on. It's not about teaching the student the subject matter, or teaching the student how to learn and be problem solvers, or how to be citizens of our communities. So the incentive is to teach to the tests to make sure the students do well and the teachers and school system receive favorable grades as well.
And more and more, those standardizes tests are being administered by private companies, the tests made up by private companies, the material written by private companies. These corporations are making out like bandits on the backs of our students, but mostly at their expense.
My teacher friend has repeatedly commented on how her job has become increasingly more difficult. That she has so much more paperwork to do, new systems to learn to account for how well the students are doing compared to expectations, which are determined by how well they do on these standardized tests. The teachers are having less and less time to actually teach the students, to help them learn, be present for them, to help them be future members of our society.
What, you ask, do I think should be done about it?
- Fully funded education pre-k through college graduation (bachelors or associate).
- Instead of basing school funding on property taxes or local taxes, make it equal across the nation, accounting for cost of living of course. But make sure that every student in every school all across the country have the best possible materials.
- Better requirements for healthier foods served at the schools. Studies have shown that consuming healthier organic foods, lower carbs, can improve a student's innate ability to learn, to absorb information.
- Quiet time, 20 minutes at the start of the day and 20 minutes at the end of the day. This one helps the students to become present at the school in the morning, to calm them down, get them ready for the day. And at the end of the day to close out, calm down, and prepare for their after school activities and going home. It works, look it up.
- Do away with the standardized tests. Teach the subject matter. Teach the kids how to be problem solvers, how to think. Not what to think, but how to think for themselves.
- Teach the kids basic tasks that the everyday person does after graduation. How to balance their books, create a budget, cook, be able to take care of themselves.
- The Department of Education becomes the Department of Educational Excellence, researching the best environments and systems from all around the world, trying out these ideas in schools, making sure teachers have the best tools that they need to teach.
We can throw more and more information at our students, more and more requirements. But without providing the student's with the ability to increase and improve their innate ability to learn, none of that will help in the long run.
Semantics … it's not just software and mathematics.
Yes, the implementation of the Semantic Web definitely includes software development and mathematics, but Semantics is soooo much more then that. It's all about meaning, hence the word Semantics. It has context. It represents concepts and relationships. Could even say that there's a perspective to the semantics. Making assertions about quality and trust. Who said it's of high quality and why did they make the assertion. The origins of something, aka provenance. In other words, the Semantic Web has a cognitive component.
Semantics is all about meaning. Not just meaning to a machine, but meaning for a person. The Semantic Web utilizes both when displaying information, depending on the context. If a human browses to a IRI that represents a data collection, for example, then that human would want to view the information as a web page with information that is useful for them. If a machine hits that same IRI and wants to see a particular serialization of RDF of that same information, then that's what it will see. To both human and machine the information is semantically rich and clear.
The meaning behind terms in an ontology and vocabulary are very, very important. And we want to make sure that we use an ontology in the same spirit of its intention and meaning. If we end up using an ontology and decide that term x means something else to us, then we should create our own term x in our own namespace. We need to leave the external ontology alone. Same with relationships.
And we need to use words taking into account their definition, not subverting it or stretching the meaning of the term. "Well, if you think about it this way then it makes sense." Well, no … terms like inheres and realizes has a definite definition, and the comment related to the term in the ontology should make that clear. If you have to ask to clarify the term, then it's not worth using.
To use such properties as "relates", "related by", "related", "realizes", "inheres in", and so on is semantically void, especially when the "definition" for the term 'realizes' looks like this:
"to say that b realizes c at t is to assert that there is some material entity d & b is a process which has participant d at t & c is a disposition or role of which d is bearer_of at t& the type instantiated by b is correlated with the type instantiated by c. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [059-003])"
They call that an elucidation, which supposedly means an explanation that makes something clear, clarification. I don't know about you, but that is definitely not clear. This "elucidation", to me, is completely void of semantics.
And to say "project realizes leadership_role"? That means absolutely nothing to me. How did the project realize a leadership role? The project didn't realize it. That doesn't make any sense. The project includes a collaborator who plays the role of project lead.
And let's look at a query:
SELECT ?project ?leader
?project a foaf:Project .
?project grt:000055 ?role .
?role ty:000052 ?leader .
?leader a foaf:Person .
WTH! ?project grt:0000055 ?role … what the hell does that mean. What relationship does a project have to a role? Perhaps ?project x:includesCollaboratorWithRole ?role.
And how does a role inhere in a person? Meaning of inhere – exist essentially or permanently in. Does the role essentially or permanently exist in the person? No. The person is playing a role for a period of time with a particular context. Patrick West is playing the role of Principal Software Engineer at the Tetherless World Constellation starting in January 2009 and continuing to this day. Patrick West is also playing the role of Consulting Software Engineer with the National Center for Atmospheric Research starting in 2008. The same person, different roles with different context.
Let's look at another example of meaning. A foaf:Agent is very different from a prov:Agent. They are not defined as being subclasses of the other, nor should they. The foaf namespace is separate and different from the prov namespace. Let me put it another way … the context of foaf is separate and different from the context of prov. The context for foaf:Agent is in terms of representing a person or organization. Period. The context for prov:Agent is in terms of something that has impact on the derivation of one entity from another, provenance.
So to say that prov:Agent subClass foaf:Agent changes the meaning of prov:Agent. And it changes the meaning not only within the scope of my application, but the meaning for anyone, anywhere, especially when we're talking about 5-star linked data. There is no such thing as a closed container in the Semantic Web. In other words, just because I'm defining this in the context of a particular application at a particular organization, it doesn't mean that it stays in the confines of that organization. It's the Semantic "Web", as in, World Wide Web. If I have true 5-star linked data then concepts and relationships are resolvable outside of my organization. So if I say prov:Agent subClass foaf:Agent, then I'm saying that about all prov:Agent instances.
What I should be doing is saying that an instance is both a foaf:Agent and a prov:Agent.
myapp:PatrickWest a foaf:Agent,provAgent
In fact, I can pull in the RDF of PatrickWest the foaf:Agent from someplace else, such as the Tetherless World Knowledge Store, because I know that the meaning of foaf:Agent is the same between the use in my app and the TWC use. But if I assert that prov:Agent subClass foafLAgent in my app, then myapp:PatrickWest is not the same as twc:PatrickWest because I've added the meaning that PatrickWest is also a prov:Agent.
Yes, mathematically speaking, based on graph theory, I can make that assertion. It's syntactically correct. But that doesn't make it valid or right. We should not, can not, modify the meaning of a term in an ontology or namespace that is not ours.
We need to get out of the notion that the Semantic Web is just about software and mathematics. It's also social, behavioral … has a cognitive component … it MEANS something in a much broader scope, to people as well as machines, all across the Web of Information!
We're People Too
Have you ever been in a restaurant and noticed that your server looks as if they just might be having a tough day? Doing their job, but maybe a little distracted?
Are you the type of person who gets pissed off because they might make a little mistake? Maybe they bring you fries instead of onion rings? Sweet tea instead of unsweetened tea?
Do you yell at your server, make them feel bad? Do you get on their case for every little thing? Do you go in there with the goal of getting something for free? If you order something and don't like it, not because its cooked wrong or anything, but simply because you just don't like it, and expect it to be replaced or get it for free?
Your servers are people too. They have lives, husbands, wives, boy friends, girl friends, children, classes to take, trying to get ahead in life, loved ones who depend on them, elders who might need health care, a pet that they love and care for just passed away, and so on and so forth. Just like you and me … They have their own lives that have come together in this one instance. How do you want that encounter to be remembered?
It's amazing how many people think that they are their servants, not servers. People who don't take the time to say hey, find out their name, make a nice comment about the way they look, say something nice, thank them for just being there.
When was the last time you asked your server their name? Or at least remembered their name? The last restaurant I went to, Don Pablo's in West Lafayette, Indiana for me. And her name was Caitlyn. Lovely girl. Thank you Caitlyn for great service, and helping to make my experience with my friends a good one, a memorable one. Thank you.
So I know a few people in the restaurant business, managers or assistant managers, chefs or cooks, servers or hosts. And they have some of the best, and some of the worst, stories.
One story from an assistant manager, has one of his servers coming back into the kitchen in tears because the customer was being so mean, and just couldn't go back out there on the floor. She was in tears, crying. Why?
So next time you decide to eat out, for whatever reason, you might want to take the time to be nice and have a good experience and a good interaction with probably a really nice person. They are people to, with their own lives, their own ups and downs, their own experiences. So why not be nice to them? As you sow, so shall you reap.
Your perspective related to my perspective
What a great word. I love that word.
Perspective: "a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view." – Google
So two people see something. Even though they are seeing the same thing, they each have a very unique perspective. Not just a different physical perspective, but also mental and emotional perspective.
Let's examine the case where a person asks a questions or gives a piece of information to someone else. This is the case that caused me to want to write this little post here.
The person has thought of the question. The question is formulated based on the information in their head, information that they know about, they can even picture things in their mind, have an emotional response to certain pieces of information. They've painted a mental picture surrounding this question over a certain period of time.
With all that information that the questioner has at their disposal, they seem to assume that the person/people that they ask the question of have that same exact set of information and reaction, the same mental picture, even the same emotional response. The people being asked the question are hearing the question for the first time and have not had time to paint the picture in their minds, and it definitely won't be the same picture. The questioner assumes that the question is clear, or the reference is clear, or whatever it is. But they couldn't be further from the truth.
Okay … try this. Put yourself in everyone else's shoes. From where they're sitting, how would you ask the question so that it is clear, concise, and to the point and conveys enough information so that they can deliver an answer that is useful to yourself and to them. And how much time have you put into asking the question. Would it not be prudent to allow them to take some time to formulate an answer?
Same with note taking. Don't assume that everyone sees your perspective on a note. Include links, include definitions, write out acronyms, include enough information so that everyone has the same information, or can get to that information.
And here's a nice quote that I brought up with someone recently.
I have a perspective on an issue, you have a perspective on the same issue, and somewhere in the middle is the truth.
ESIP Summer Meeting 2014
A little late getting this one out. Busy catching up after the conference to the work I didn't get to during the conference, then had a week long vacation, and then a week to catch up after vacation to the work I didn't get done during vacation. And there you have it.
ESIP Summer Meeting 2014 was again, as it was last year, one of my better conferences. Better then AGU for me. The focus is on informatics and all that goes into data science. Actually, someone asked me during ESIP about what I thought Data Science was. Not a definition that I might get from Professor Fox' Data Science class (though he explains it much better then I could ever), a class that all Computer Science and Earth and Environmental Science students at RPI should take. But what Data Science means to me. I hadn't thought about it in quite that way. I could definitely have responded to the question as if it was a question asked during class. Data Science is "advancing inductive conduct of science driven by the greater volumes, complexity and heterogeneity of data being made available over the Internet. Data science combines aspects of data management, library science, computer science, and physical science using supporting cyberinfrastructure and information technology. As such it is changing the way all of these disciplines do both their individual and collaborative work." Man, I just love that description.
But what does it mean to me? I've been pondering this question for the past few weeks. To me, being the Principal Software Engineer in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, it means leading the way, leading by example, in the development of data management, information technology, and the supporting cyberinfrastructure related to data collected in the pursuit of knowledge about our natural world, the universe, and all that exists. It means talking about, discussing, and learning from the various disciplines in order to better provide them with the tools necessary to do their jobs. And in discussing these various topics, I want to be able to lead by example, by showing people what we've done in our own lab to support this ever growing science that is Data Science. And there are so many aspects of data management, so many technical issues to be tackled in data science. Volume, discovery, search, access to and knowledge about, visuzliations, tool support, archiving, licensing, citation, provenance, storage and speedy access to both data and metadata. And I know I didn't even scratch the surface.
The week for me started on Saturday July 6, traveling up to Copper Mountain, Colorado (I live in Lafayette, Colorado … so a nice drive up the mountains), getting posters printed, and continuing to prepare for a panel discussion, presentations, and so on. Sunday and Monday was the DataONE Users Group. Monday and Tuesday was the OPeNDAP Developers Meeting. Tuesday through Friday was the actual ESIP Summer Meeting 2014.
Presenting our work on OPeNDAP provenance was by far the best part of the week for me. OPeNDAP is an open source project developing software to provide access to, manipulation and transformation of, and transmission of data to users. Okay, I wrote most of the Back-End Server and that's why I love it. Problem is, no provenance information is captured within the OPeNDAP Hyrax software framework. What would it take to provide this provenance information? What coding changes would need to be developed? And what architectural changes would we need to make in the software stack? So a presentation on Tuesday and a poster on Sunday and Wednesday about our work on OPeNDAP Provenance. Some good coding to be done.
And there is some interest in using the BES directly. I've felt for a while that OPeNDAP shouldn't be in the business of providing a front-end UI. There's plenty of data portals out there that have their own user interfaces, their own authentication and authorization systems, discovery, search, and browse architecture. All we have to do is provide access to, manipulation and transformation of, the data. And that could be done by a simple web service talking to the BES, not a UI. Just a thought. Of course, we could provide a user interface for those who don't have one already, with hooks for providing authentication and authorization, saved sessions, discovery of the data, custom catalogs, faceted browsing, server-side functions and visualizations, visualizations provided in the Cloud instead of having to download data and applications to a local machine, and much, much more. I can visualize what could be and I really enjoy working on it. I just hope there's time to do the work.
So some great collaborative possibilities with folks that I had discussions with regarding OPeNDAP.
And I noticed that this year, at DataONE and ESIP, there's a greater amount of interest in providing citation, attribution, and provenance information within systems. And I feel that the Tetherless World Constellation is one of the groups at the forefront of this work. TWC had quite a few people involved in the development of the W3C Prov Recommendation, the Prov-O provenance ontology, and ping back. The Ping Back interface is of particular interest to me within provenance. A shout out to Tim Lebo on this, as he's the person who brought this to the Recommendation. He and I worked (mostly Tim) on providing ping back within an OPeNDAP system. Basically, a web service, or some mechanism, for allowing upstream users to tell downstream data providers about derived products. So a user requests a data product from an OPeNDAP server. The data product retrieved from the OPeNDAP server is then used in the creation of another data product, like a report. The user can then let the OPeNDAP server know that a derived product, the report, was created using the data product returned by OPeNDAP. Ping back! And then the OPeNDAP server could ping back to the data portal that the report was created from data in the portal. And the data portal could ping back to the data provider that the report was generated using data they provided. And so on and so on.
Of course, this leads to the question of how we represent software in our knowledge system? Another set of great discussions at ESIP, DataONE, and OPeNDAP. Damn, so much fun stuff to work on. Anyway, OPeNDAP Hyrax is a piece of software that needs to be represented in the Knowledge Store. The components of Hyrax need to be represented as well, since Hyrax has a modular design, modules provided by other organizations even. So the libraries and dynamically loaded modules in Hyrax need to have a representation in the Knowledge Store. And the modules use other software libraries. Of course the people and organizations that developed these software components would like to be recognized and cited for their good work. Also helps in getting additional funding if software developers can point to systems that use their software and data products generated through the use of their software. For example, that report above was derived from a data product generated by the OPeNDAP Hyrax Software Stack. And I was a leading contributor to the OPeNDAP Hyrax Back-End Server. And I work at the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with collaborators from OPeNDAP, Inc. The publisher of the Hyrax software is OPenDAP Inc. DOAP (Description Of A Project) is an ontology that could be used to represent software projects. There are already systems that use DOAP, and I believe we'll start using it within the Tetherless World Constellation to represent our software products.
Ahhh … Linked Data Rules!!!
ToolMatch was the other big project that I discussed during the week, matching datasets to tools that can be used to access, manipulate, transform, analyze and visualize the data. This project has been particularly challenging for me. It took me a while to determine the architecture for this project, the services that we needed to provide. Specifically, developing and using rules within a semantically enabled knowledge store. In this case, writing rules that given the features of a dataset, match them to the capabilities of tools. Also, how do we represent these features within a dataset and the capabilities provided by the tools. This will require a great amount of feedback from tool developers, domain scientists who really understand their data, and the ToolMatch team. This is an aspect of my career that I have not had a lot of experience in. Sure, I've discussed requirements and use cases with clients, developed user requirement documents, gotten feedback from users, but utilizing crowd sourcing for the development of a system is quite different. At least, this is how I see it.
So … a HUGE week for me, and a great success for me and the folks who attended from RPI.
I'm really looking forward to continuing my work with DataONE, ESIP, and OPeNDAP.
Going on the Defensive
Had an interesting conversation today. The content of the conversation and the person I had the conversation with is unimportant for this post. It turned out to be a good discussion, and I imagine in the near future I'm going to learn a lot about the topic discussed. But first, I had to open up.
You see, the discussion started with me going on the defensive because my position was being attacked and ridiculed. So much so that I felt that I was personally under attack. My experience is that when someone's position is attacked, they will more then likely go on the defensive, close up, and not be able to listen to the other person's point of view, let alone change their mind. All the person ends up doing is defending their own position because it's under attack. The harsher the attack, the more personal it is, the more you end up defending your position instead of opening up to the possibilities and having a nice lively discussion.
We see it all the time in politics to be sure. Instead of having constructive, lively discussions on the issues, the one side goes on the attack causing the other side to go on the defensive. Nothing gets accomplished. And when it turns personal, it becomes even worse. Not only is the position attacked, but the person as well. You're busy defending your position and yourself.
And it took me a while to realize that I had closed down. Instead of listening to what the other person had to say, I was searching for the right weapon to fend off the attack, even coming up with "facts" to support my position. But once I realized what I was doing I was able to open up, listen to what the other person had to say, request research articles that I might be able to learn more, potentially grow as a human being, learn something new, and potentially change my position.
There is not one single issue out there that I am 100% on. I have a position, and I can discuss my position. But I'm never 100% positive that I am right. I mean, how could I be. For example, if I have my numbers right, 90+% of scientists are 95+% sure that global warming and global climate change is a critical issue and is human caused. But hey, there's still that ~5% probability that we could be wrong. Highly unlikely, but possible. The world is a big place with many complex systems interacting together to create our world. And we understand such a small part of that interconnectedness. So how could we possibly be 100%. How could I be so absolute in my positions. I try to approach discussions, debates, conversations in such a way that I will speak to and promote my position, but there is a distinct possibility that I could be wrong. And I'll be the first to admit it.
So let's have a lively, constructive conversation on the issues, grow in our understanding and the various perspectives, and be open to the possibilities.
DCO Data Science Day 2014
Knowledge Representation
One key point that I heard Mark Ghiorso bring up is related to the fact that there were 20 parameters to a data model that he was using, that he needed to make changes to one or more parameters, but did not know/understand what those 20 parameters were, even with all his years of experience. There wasn't any information that labeled or described the parameters. The knowledge of these parameters was missing, or had to be searched for.
The point that I took from this is that there needs to be a knowledge representation of the models, the parameters that go into the models. And more then that, the information about the people who put together the model, where the data came from that they use in the model, the software and theories used to create the model, and so on. But semantic representation of the 20 parameters would be ideal. Labels, descriptions, citations, and related documents would be examples of concepts that we could be keeping track of. And in this knowledge store could include information about what would happen if one were to modify the parameters.
When I first started working with the Semantic Web here at the Tetherless World Constellation at RPI we used terms like Knowledge Systems, Knowledge Provenance, Knowledge Store, and even Knowledge Information. Using that word Knowledge meant a lot to me. It was more then just creating directed graphs using concepts and properties, linking things together, creating models, and other engineering tasks. To me it's more about representing knowledge. This knowledge is in people's minds, text files on their personal computers, blog posts, scripts that they wrote (probably not well documented.) for the most part the knowledge is in their minds.
As I've said for some time now, concepts and properties, the relationships between concepts, are all first-class citizens. I want to be able to ask questions about the individuals to be sure, say a particular dataset, a measured parameter in the dataset, the sensor that measured the parameter, the instrument that that sensor is on, the deployment of that instrument, and so on … but I also want to be able to ask questions about the concepts themselves, the properties, the relationships. Tell me about the concept Cruise. What is an instrument? What is a sensor? Tell me about the idea of measuring parameters by a particular sensor. Describe them to me. Share the knowledge.
Unfortunately this requires someone to enter information. That's right … data entry. Not a lot of people seem to want to do data entry. Far too busy to do that, not as interesting as the cool science and engineering tasks. Or, in some cases for those with large egos, too important to do data entry. Well, nobody is too important for data entry. Should lead by example anyway. Or, in the least, get someone to do your data entry for you. And we all know what is meant by "I'll do it later." It probably won't get done. And sometimes you just gotta enter the information in by hand, no need to try and create some cool application to do it for you. Just start slapping those keys.
Don't just declare the concepts and relationships, define and describe them. Don't just create an individual, label it and describe it. Don't just do the cool science and engineering, let others understand and follow your cool science and engineering. There are curious minds out there thirsty for not just words, but for knowledge.
Data Science … What?
Some of the presentation given at the DCO data science day contained a great deal of information about the specific science that the presenter specialized in. Deep carbon, extreme physics, deep life, deep energy, volcanology, chemistry, biology, whatever. My take from this … they don't know, or don't know how to talk about data science. As scientists they understand very well the special area of research in which they participate. But data? That's okay … I'm a data scientist and I know very little about solar terrestrial science, oceanography, deep carbon, and other sciences. Well, that's why we organized this event. And of course I could certainly say, being a data scientist, that everyone should know about data science. Well, that's because all the scientists collect data, need to do something with the data, store the data somewhere, want their data to be used (eventually), cited. They want recognition for their work, and rightfully so. All of that, and more, is data science. Not that a scientist working in the field of Deep Carbon needs to know how to do any of this, necessarily, but a general understanding of what is data science would be beneficial, specifically data management and the development of data management plans.
21st Century Workshop
One of these days we'll have a conference/workshop that includes live documentation, not printed on paper, in a folder, in a booklet, whatever. But a live document that has links, is clickable, is searchable.
Could find out information about a person, look at their bio, find out where they do their research, information about the organizations, search for content, search for sessions, search for posters, be able to contact researchers of interest, learn more about research, and more and more. The linked data world.
Day 2 … WOW!
On day 2 of the workshop we presented the DCO Data Science platform. This includes the community portal (Drupal), semantically represented information creation and management (VIVO), data storage and management (CKAN). And I learned a lot. Namely, there's still a lot to do. Our team has done a tremendous amount of work and have done a tremendous job.
Having a specific number of people working with the tools (Drupal about a dozen and VIVO just a handful, and CKAN even less), is one thing. But getting all the scientists at the workshop to start using the tools? That's a different story.
Lots of exciting research and work to do here. Lots of great features and community tools are on their way!


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A creature with characteristics of both a human and an arachnid, most often a spider or scorpion.
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Games which feature creatures who make use of the natural excretions of their body to lay waste to their enemies.
A pokemon first found in Sinnoh. It Evolves into Roselia.
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Now it is July 7th and for the last three days we have been trying to get a discount on a stay in Key West Florida for a week. We have been offered $50 less on the entire week than the quote I received from the hotels, condo, motels they offered. In fact Priceline shows the same prices as Resorts Plus International gave us for quotes.
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|Chairman's sparkling kava
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|Pomegranate seeds
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Mint leaves
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|5 Ounce
|Creme de menthe
|2 Ounce
|Peppermint schnapps
|1 1⁄2 Ounce
|For the scotch santa
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|3⁄4 Ounce
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Total Fat 0.11 g0.18%
Saturated Fat 0.01 g0.05%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
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Skip to comments.Fears for Pope Francis health after he cancels morning mass and the rest of Tuesdays engagements
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Fears for the health of Pope Francis have surfaced after he canceled two days of engagements.
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Prayers for Papa!
Maybe he was just stealing more stuff from other's coffins.
77 is old to work that kind of schedule. Prayers for the Pontiff.
'So I think that during August hes going to retire to rest.'
Oh, man, don't start that again.
The press is more full of fiction than most novels or TV shows.
Reading the rude comments, I don't think Heaven will be overpopulated.
Nonsense. My mom worked as a floor nurse until she was 83. Puhleeze
This Pope may be bold and confident enough to establish his own traditions of the rare vacation and more leisurely routines. The schedule is very demanding for any mortal, Pope Francis has my total respect and admiration. I see nothing wrong with him taking a three week period off to live in private twice a year. This would be the time to make use of Pope Benedict still being available. Many christians would not like it, because they don't see the Pontiff as someone subject to physical exhaustion like any other earthly being.
'So I think that during August hes going to retire.'
Fixed it.
If he knew what his job really is, he would know that he doesn't have to be on camera every minute, jetting around to pray in front of anti-Semitic graffiti, etc.
If he would make a two-minute phone call telling Cardinal Wuerl to stop committing the mortal sin of giving Communion to Nancy Pelosi, it would be a good day's work.
You express some good point there.
"If he knew what his job really is, he would know that he doesnt have to be on camera every minute, jetting around to pray in front of anti-Semitic graffiti, etc."
Bingo. You win the door prize.
Ok, it isn't tin foil Thursday, and most Popes are older men, but part of me wonders if the election of two frail and failing Popes was done on purpose.
My father worked till 67, my grandfather till 75 (both had to stop because of health issues).
I hope to top grandpa.
Well, not surprised, Pope Francis has been busy as of late.
My mother worked cleaning houses until at least her 70's.
He hasn't traveled as much as some other Popes.
One Mass cancelled and one day off and the media hits the panic button? Really? I guy can't take a day off?
Obama told them to push this story to take people's minds off the Bergdahl fiasco. [haw]
My grandmother was cleaning offices in her 80s. And it was not discovered until after she died that she had only one functioning kidney.
I pray that he rests up and regains his vigor.
Wow, God Bless her!
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Hey why not? Blame the Pope nothing else has stuck.
Whats wrong with him??
Who is next in line if the pope steps down or worse?
Would it be his sec. of state?
Three popes?
There is no next in line for the papacy; hence, people were shocked when Bergoglio (Francis) was selected; he had been in the running when Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) was selected, but most thought he was too old and on the way out. Bergoglio was "only" an archbishop of Buenos Aires. Likewise Wojtyla (John Paul II) was "only" an archbishop of Gdansk.
If you want to be afraid of someone becoming pope, look to the anti-free-market Maradiago of Honduras. Not that he's considered one of the favorites.
FYI: Sec of state is 2nd behind Pope in the curia, but while there is no Pope, the Dean of the College of Cardinals handles things. Coincidentally, that's a retired Secretary of State, Angelo Sodano.
That I don't know. However, I think, given the chance, there are millions of qualified bishops to serve on an interim basis. Most would consider it the honor of their lifetimes.
These honorable men must be separated from those who would want to serve in this capacity mainly for the ego boost or material gains at their disposal.
I was wanting to test the waters to see if anyone would throw out the Malachy prophecy.
So, the sec. of state is named Peter and he is from Rome.
Peter the Roman. lol I dunno, kinda creepy
Maybe the Imam will pray for him.
I love your insightful comments!
Good for your mom, but everyone is not alike. 77 is old, older for some than for others. My great aunt climbed stairs and did sewing until she was 113 but that doesn't mean I will. My husband is 79 and he could not keep up the Pope's schedule.
Each person has a number of days to live.....It is not a matter of being 'old' or not. It is a matter of living it to the best of your ability
Did you not understand my post at 39???
Do you not realize that some people live to be very old and they are unable to take care of themselves for many years before they pass? Not everyone who lives to be your mothers age can still function like she does. What a blessing she has. That's how this discussion started.
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