For the CLEF 2004 ImageCLEF St Andrew’s Collection task the Dublin City University group carried out three sets of experiments. We carried out standard cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) runs using topic translation using machine translation (MT), combination of this run with image matching results from the VIPER system, and a novel document rescoring approach based on automatic MT eva...

INTRODUCTION In New York City, the age-adjusted prevalence of nonspecific psychological distress (NPD) among Hispanics is twice that of non-Hispanic whites; nationally, there is little Hispanic-white disparity. We aimed to explain the pattern of disparity in New York City. METHODS Data came from the 2006 National Health Interview Survey and 2006 Community Health Survey in New York City. Respo...

Support Groups for Patients Who Have Recovered From Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Pratibha Ambadwar, Deanna Duvall, Norma J. Wolf, Deirdra R. Terrell, Sara K. Vesely, and James N. George* Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, The University of...

85. HIV Quality Report Cards: Impact of Case-mix adjustment and Statistical Methods Michael Ohl, MD, MSPH; Michihiko Goto, MD; Kelly Richardson, PhD; Marin Schweizer, PhD; Mary Vaughand-Sarrazin, PhD; Eli Perencevich, MD, MS, FIDSA, FSHEA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA; Iowa City VAMC, Iowa City, IA...

 In many countries, especially in under developed and developing countries proper health care service is a major concern. The health centers are far and even the medical personnel are deficient when compared to the requirement of the people. For this reason, health services for people who are unhealthy and need health monitoring on regular basis is like impossible. This makes the health monito...

Cities are living systems where urban infrastructures and their functions are defined and evolved due to population behaviors. Profiling the cities and functional regions has been an important topic in urban design and planning. This paper studies a unique big data set which includes daily movement data of tens of millions of city residents, and develop a visual analytics system, namely UrbanFA...

Children's hospitals play a central role in our child health care system. These hospitals face unique challenges under health care reform. They care for children with the most complex medical problems but often are not reimbursed for good preventive care, care coordination, or quality. We discuss a proposal by children's hospital leaders to create a network of Nationally Designated Children's H...