When Variables Don’t Vary Enough

Women at midlife

What do we mean by ‘midlife’? It is important that we look after ourselves throughout life to live the healthiest life we can. Yet the reality is life demands often mean we cannot prioritise our own health enough. Between work and family we often don’t have the time to think much about our health until around midlife, which is the life stage when most of us have a few key realisations: • If we ...

Recitation: Generating Random Variables for Simulation

• Usually we don’t have enough trace data to collect meaningful system measurements (statistically significant ones). • Sometimes we might purposely want to generate a Poisson arrival process, so that we can study effects of other variables. • If you’ve used empirical data to create closed-form analytic curve-fit, that analytic distribution can be very accurate. For example: the SURGE Web workl...

NOT ENOUGH TIME, NOT ENOUGH EXPERIENCE, NOT AWARE OF RISK Why healthcare providers don’t routinely test youth for HIV

Ontology Based Semantic Metadata for Imagery and Gridded Data

Nowadays, huge volumes of imagery and gridded data are accessible. However they vary in formats and are stored at various organizations leading to problems of data discovery, data interoperability and usability. ISO19115, Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata and some other norms don’t provide enough provision for imagery and gridded data. UML and XML schema of metadata also don’t pr...

General and relative time in urban general practice.

TO THE EDITOR: Academic researchers and staff of Divisions of General Practice often perceive that urban general practitioners “don’t have time” to participate in various practice development or research activities, or even that they don’t have enough time overall. What does this really mean? Urban GPs can ensure that they have too little time for anything by continuing to accept new patients w...