INTRODUCTION Our study extends previous studies that have evaluated the level of bias in self-reported height and weight and corresponding body mass index (BMI). Results are evaluated by age, sex, income, race/ethnicity, and BMI classifications. METHODS Analyses are based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2001-2006. The sample was 8,208 men and 8,606 women ...

In this paper we review position-based routing for wireless ad hoc and for wired networks. This form of routing assumes that nodes are aware of i) their own position; ii) the position of their neighbors (obtained through the exchange of beacon messages); and iii) the position of the node that is the intended destination of the packet. Document Identifier TR-01 Document Status Published Created ...

Sentiment analysis or Opinion mining is becoming an important task both from academics and commercial standpoint. In recent years text mining has become most promising area for research. There is an exponential growth with respect to World Wide Web, Mobile Technologies, Internet usage and business on electronic commerce applications. Because of which web opinion sources like online shopping por...

Biological systems such as human beings can be regarded as sophisticated information processing systems , and can be expected to provide inspiration for various ideas to science and engineering. Biologically-motivated information processing systems can be clas-siied into: brain-nervous systems (neural networks), genetic systems (evolutionary algorithms), and immune systems (artiicial immune sys...

This paper presents a survey of recent extractive query-based summarization techniques. We explore approaches for single document and multidocument summarization. Knowledge-based and machine learning methods for choosing the most relevant sentences from documents with respect to a given query are considered. Further, we expose tailored summarization techniques for particular domains like medica...