INTRODUCTION The State Plan Index is an evaluation instrument that uses a Likert scale to assess 60 indicators of the quality of state public health plans. The State Plan Index was needed to enable evaluation of plans that were developed using a variety of public health planning models. METHODS Federal, state, and academic partners participated in developing and testing the instrument. The au...

This paper describes a new spoken dialog portal that connects systems produced by the spoken dialog research community and gives them access to real users. We introduce a prototype dialog framework that affords easy integration with various remote dialog agents as well as external knowledge resources. To date, the DialPort portal has successfully connected to two dialog systems and several publ...

Regmatogenous retinal detachments need prompt intervention particularly when macula is on. Unfortunately this is not always easy to ascertain clinically and the chronicity of the event is often muddled in patient's histories. Developments in optical coherence tomography (OCT) have allowed high-resolution axial scans which have enabled the characterisation of retinal changes in retinal detachmen...

We propose a method to create process ow graphs automatically from documents which explain the process of assembling something. This is realized by understanding context by limiting the subject and making use of domain speci c characteristics. As an example, we restrict the domain to cooking procedures, which is comparatively easy to retrieve signi cant keywords for the domain. We will also int...

Open bite is a malocclusion that occurs in the vertical plane, characterized by lack of vertical overlap between the maxillary and Mandibular dentition. The anterior open bites particularly skeletal open bites are called as “stigmata of malocclusion”. The varied etiological characterstic features of openbite are discussed in this article. Openbites are easy to diagnose but difficult to retain. ...