Due to need of huge investments for providing a highly equipped laboratory and difficulties in data collection over challenging situations, developing a high performance predictive model is helpful to design and optimize condensers with lower pumping costs as a result of accurate estimation of pressure drops.
It has been suggested that the ideal situation for data collection is to collect economic data along side health outcomes in a randomized pragmatic trial [ 10].
Furthermore, as patients with CF are typically seen at their CF centre in intervals of 4-12 weeks the schedule of data collection best reflects the situation of centre care where physical activity may be assessed in intervals of at least 3 months.
Before stepping down as US attorney general earlier this year, Eric Holder described the prevailing situation on data collection as "unacceptable".
Wireless sensor networks have been widely used for data collection [1 3] and situation monitoring in various applications, including environment monitoring, automatic target detection, and tracking in battlefields, forests, farmlands, and coal mines.
"The text targets every situation where data collection is based on consent," explained Valérie Sédallian, a Paris attorney specializing in new technologies.
The survey questionnaire was adapted from the VISION 2020 situation analysis data collection tool and from a list of essential equipment for a functional eye unit compiled by IAPB [ 7, 8].
Although at the time of this study, relatively few IDPs (including from the baseline cohort) had fully returned to areas of origin, recent information indicate that return rates have rapidly increased after the conclusion of data collection [ 37] and the situation remains fluid.
Although it was created during an emergency situation and data collection is dependent on front-line medical workers, the PTAC data has achieved a high level of validity, perhaps even higher than many purpose built databases created during non-emergency settings.
