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ECE 199 JL : Introduction to Computer Engineering Fall 2012

The difficulty of learning depends on the type of task involved. Remembering new terminology is relatively easy, while applying the ideas underlying design decisions shown by example to new problems posed as human tasks is relatively hard. In this short summary, we give you lists at several levels of difficulty of what we expect you to be able to do as a result of the last few weeks of studying...

05 Liu (jl/d)

To provide health services to its population of 1.2 billion, China has 200 000 health establishments including 62 000 public hospitals (Ministry of Health 1996). China has some 3 million hospital beds in operation, averaging 2.4 beds per thousand people. This is a higher per capita ratio than is found in other low-income regions of the world. Three-quarters of China’s total health spending goes...

04 Fiedler (jl/d)

Vitamin A deficiency is the most important cause of childhood blindness in lower and middle income countries, and contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality from common childhood infections. Beaton and colleagues’ metaanalysis of randomized community-based trials in eight countries concluded that vitamin A supplementation resulted in a 23% reduction in the mortality rates of children ...

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Project Report: Analysis of JL Transform Implementations

Most of the scientific research today has become data-intensive [1]. Vast amounts of data are being collected from different sources by researchers in all the areas we can imagine, ranging from basic sciences like nuclear physics (Large Hadron Collider is a recent example), astronomy, biology to more applied areas like web mining, natural language processing, biomedical applications, etc. This ...