What are the Main Routes of Hospital Acquired Infection?
” The title of this talk may, at first sight, seem an unusual topic for a conference on Internet Technologies and Applications! However, the same technology that underlies the Internet is being applied by the Bradford Infection Group (BIG) to uncover the main routes of Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) that is the cause of so much government and public concern. All Internet search engines retrieve lists of potentially relevant pages in response to keyword queries. Far and away the most popular of the search engines is Google?, with more than 70% of all searches. Google’s success is based on its unique ability to rank search results in a manner that users find particularly helpful. As Google’s spiders crawl the Web, they build a “connectivity matrix” of which pages point to which other pages. Google’s engine then uses the “PageRank” algorithm (named after Larry Page, one of Google’s founders) to analyse the principal eigenvector of this matrix. This eigenvector is then used to decide th
