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90; 95%CI 0.81-0.99, p=0.03). Compared with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)-no rheumatoid arthritis, STEMI-rheumatoid arthritis was associated with lower in-hospital mortality and cardiac arrest, while it was associated with higher discharges to nursing facility. No difference in mortality was observed among Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI)-rheumatoid arthritis and NSTEMI-no rheumatoid arthritis, while NSTEMI-rheumatoid arthritis was associated with lower cardiac arrest, cardiogenic shock and hemodialysis, at the expense of higher bleeding events and discharges to nursing facilities. CONCLUSION In this nationwide analysis, we found an increase in hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction-rheumatoid arthritis. Among patients with acute myocardial infarction, rheumatoid arthritis was independently associated with lower in-hospital mortality, particularly in cases of STEMI. BACKGROUND We aimed to robustly categorize glycemic control in our medical ICU as either acceptable or suboptimal based on time-weighted daily blood glucose averages of 180mg/dl; identify clinical risk factors for suboptimal control; and compare clinical outcomes between the two glycemic control categories. METHODS Retrospective cohort study in an academic tertiary/quaternary medical ICU. RESULTS 920 out of total of 974 unit stays over a two-year period had complete data sets available for analysis. 63% of unit stays (575) were classified as acceptable glycemic control and the remaining 37% (345) as suboptimal glycemic control. Adjusting for covariables, the odds of suboptimal glycemic control were highest for patients with diabetes mellitus (OR 5.08, 95% confidence interval (CI) 3.72-6.93), corticosteroid use during the ICU stay (OR 4.50, 95% CI 3.21-6.32) and catecholamine infusions (OR 1.42, 95% CI 1.04-1.93). Adjusting for acuity, acceptable glycemic control was associated with decreased odds of hospital mortality, but not ICU mortality (OR 0.65 (95% CI 0.48-0.88) and OR 0.81 (95% CI 0.55-1.17), respectively). Suboptimal glycemic control was associated with increased odds of longer-than-predicted ICU and hospital stays (OR 1.76 (95% CI 1.30-2.38) and OR 1.50 (95% CI 1.12-2.01), respectively). CONCLUSIONS In our high acuity medically critically ill patient population, achieving time-weighted average daily blood glucose levels less then 180mg/dl reliably while in the ICU significantly decreased the odds of subsequent hospital mortality. Suboptimal glycemic control during the ICU stay, on the other hand, significantly increased the odds of a longer-than-predicted ICU and hospital stay. CAL101 Graph based multi-view learning is well known due to its effectiveness and good clustering performance. However, most existing methods directly construct graph from original high-dimensional data which always contain redundancy, noise and outlying entries in real applications, resulting in unreliable and inaccurate graph. Moreover, they do not effectively select some useful features which are important for graph learning and clustering. To solve these limits, we propose a novel model that combines dimensionality reduction, manifold structure learning and feature selection into a framework. We map high-dimensional data into low-dimensional space to reduce the complexity of the algorithm and reduce the effect of noise and redundance. Therefore, we can adaptively learn a more accurate graph. Further more, ℓ21-norm regularization is adopted to adaptively select some important features which help improve clustering performance. Finally, an efficiently algorithm is proposed to solve the optimal solution. Extensive experimental results on some benchmark datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method. Synfire rings are neural circuits capable of conveying synchronous, temporally precise and self-sustained activities in a robust manner. We propose a cell assembly based paradigm for abstract neural computation centered on the conce