Budget Policy: Concept and Tasks

Policy Punctuations : US Budget

Values in Health Policy – A Concept Analysis

Background Despite the significant role “values” play in decision-making no definition or attributes regarding the concept have been provided in health policy-making. This study aimed to clarify the defining attributes of a concept of value and its irrelevant structures in health policy-making. We anticipate our findings will help reduce the semantic ambiguities associated with the use of “valu...

Bag-of-Tasks Scheduling under Time and Budget Constraints

Commercial cloud offerings, such as Amazon’s EC2, let users allocate compute resources on demand, charging based on reserved time intervals. While this gives great flexibility to elastic applications, users lack guidance for choosing between multiple offerings, in order to complete their computations within given time and budget constraints. In this work, we present BaTS, our budget and timecon...

Concept Recognition and the TREC Genomics Tasks

We applied concept recognition techniques to the Genomics track primary and secondary tasks. For the primary task, we developed a foundational information retrieval system which incorporated Entrez Gene entries and UMLS concepts for query expansion via phrasal and term boosting representations of synonyms. For the secondary task, we evaluated three conceptual features—mouse strain names, indexe...

origins of armenia’s foreign policy and its foreign policy towards iran

foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged hist...