2009 Statistics Report

Heart disease and stroke statistics--2009 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee.

Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, FAHA; Robert Adams, MD, FAHA; Mercedes Carnethon, PhD, FAHA; Giovanni De Simone, MD; T. Bruce Ferguson, MD; Katherine Flegal, PhD*; Earl Ford, MD, MPH*; Karen Furie, MD; Alan Go, MD; Kurt Greenlund, PhD*; Nancy Haase; Susan Hailpern, DPH; Michael Ho, MD, PhD; Virginia Howard, PhD, FAHA; Brett Kissela, MD; Steven Kittner, MD; Daniel Lackland, PhD, FAHA; Lynda Lisabet...

BTRY 4090: Spring 2009 Theory of Statistics

In information retrieval, documents(or images) are represented as vectors and the whole repository is represented as a matrix. Some similarity, distance and norm measurements between documents(or images) involve matrix computation. The challenge is the matrix may be too large to store, and compute. The idea is to reduce the matrix size while at the same time preserves characteristics such as Eu...

2009 Tárki European Social Report 2009

World Alzheimer Report 2009

Cover image This participant in the ARDSI day care centre in Cochin, India, was diagnosed with dementia at age 68 and was initially taken care of at home by family and domestic servants. Her aggressive behaviour became problematic, and she was enrolled in the daycare centre. At the centre she chats, tells stories and benefits from trained staff members and volunteers, such as Geetha, who are un...

Annual Technical Report 2009

The creation and delivery of power is one basic infrastructure expected by all modern industrial societies. Power distribution basics started in the US in the early 1900s when the first AC grid was established. Since 12 independent power grids were completed in the lower 48 states in the mid-1950s, reliability has been a customer concern. Parts of these earlier grids have been updated, and four...