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Match the definition to each term.

Given the sets: BLOODTYPES = {A, B, AB} TRANSFUSIONS = {Transfusion1, Transfusion2, Transfusion3} The list of blood types covered by each TRANSFUSIONS element: Transfusion1 = {A, AB} Transfusion2 = {B, AB} Transfusion3 = {AB} What is the set covering of TRANSFUSIONS types to enable transfusions for the complete blood type set?

What is the name of the class of systems that are a particular type of CDSS that accept clinical findings and generate diagnoses?

Assume your CDSS has the following if-then rules: 1. If patient is diabetic     Then Check for retinopathy 2. If check for retinopathy is true     Then schedule eye exam with ophthalmologist Now suppose a new patient comes into the practice and states that they have had an ophthalmology exam the previous week.  This would then activate rule 2’s Then part, which in turn could cause a CDSS to ask if this was to check for retinopathy, which in turn would activate the Then portion of rule 1.. This is an example of what type of rule chaining?

According to Chapter 2 in the text, for knowledge-based CDSS systems, what is the most significant bottleneck in maintenance?

Assume that we are searching a hospital EMR to determine which patients have diabetes or glaucoma, but not both.  Which Boolean logic expression will satisfy this data request.

What is the name of the expert (deduction) system listed in the text that selected antibiotics to treat bacterial infections?

The waste product of the tricarboxylic acid cycle is 

Quinones 

The best term for the sum total of all chemical reactions that occur in a cell is metabolism.