OMNIBUS LAW ANTARA DESIDERATA DAN REALITA

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-508).

On November 5, 1990, the President signed into law House Resolution 5835, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1990 (Public Law 101-508). Following are summaries of the Medicare and Medicaid provisions.

Title II of the Omnibus Crime Bill: A Study of the Interaction of Law and Politics

An omnibus noise filter

A new noise filtering approach, based on flexible least squares (FLS) estimation of an unobserved component local level model, is introduced. The proposed FLS filter has been found to perform well in Monte Carlo analysis, independently of the persistence properties of the data and the size of the signal to noise ratio, ouperforming in general even the Wiener Kolmogorov filter, which, theoretica...

Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)

The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) is an international public repository that archives and freely distributes microarray, next-generation sequencing, and other forms of highthroughput functional genomic data sets (1). Approximately 90% of the data in GEO are gene expression studies that investigate a broad range of biological themes including disease, development, evolution, immunity, ecology, t...

In defense of the Desiderata

A 1998 paper that delineated desirable characteristics, or desiderata for controlled medical terminologies attempted to summarize emerging consensus regarding structural issues of such terminologies. Among the Desiderata was a call for terminologies to be "concept oriented." Since then, research has trended toward the extension of terminologies into ontologies. A paper by Smith, entitled "From ...