Distributed Association Rule Mining (DARM) is the task for generating the globally strong association rules from the global frequent itemsets in a distributed environment. The intelligent agent based model, to address scalable mining over large scale distributed data, is a popular approach to constructing Distributed Data Mining (DDM) systems and is characterized by a variety of agents coordina...

This research wishes to contribute to the understanding of the migration policy regime of the European Union (EU), by considering an analytical perspective that privileges the standpoint of the countries of its neighbourhood. As an entry point, we have focused our analysis on the Mobility Partnership, a policy instrument of soft power, representative of the emblematic network governance privile...

In 2010 in the US, there were 4.7 million childbearing age (15-44 years) women with disabilities (WWD) defined as, being limited in any way in any activities because of physical, mental, or emotional problems. Although their proportion and pregnancy rates are growing, there is little empirical evidence about their health, healthcare needs, pregnancy experiences and outcomes. We examined differe...

Disease in Rio Grande do Sul-Brazil: A Comparative Analysis between 2002 and 2014 Iseu Gus1, Rodrigo Antonini Ribeiro2, Sérgio Kato1,4,5, Juliano Bastos2 ̧ Claudio Medina3, Claudio Zazlavsky1, Vera Lucia Portal1, Rita Timmers1, Melissa Medeiros Markoski1, Carlos Antônio Mascia Gottschall1 Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul Fundação Universitária de Cardiologia1; Universidade Federal d...

Prevalence of maternal obesity is increasing, with health risks for mother and infant. Effective health promotion depends on sufficient knowledge and appropriate communication skills. We aimed to explore women’s, midwives’ and health visitors’ perceptions of current practice in helping women manage their weight and supporting healthy behaviour change during pregnancy, and their perceived traini...

Non-traditional source countries of FDI play an increasingly important role, notably in developing host countries. This raises the question of whether the location choices differ systematically between traditional and non-traditional source countries. We perform Logit and Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood estimations to assess the determinants of bilateral FDI flows. We find that economic geogr...

This paper utilizes option pricing theory to analyze bank stock prices, as one method of estimating fair variable deposit insurance premium rates in accordance with individual bank default risk, and conducts empirical analyses using Japanese data. The purpose of the analyses is to discuss the framework of public organs’ delegate monitoring of bank management. One of the functions of the deposit...

We consider a class of multi-objective probabilistically constrained problems MOPCP with a joint chance constraint, a multi-row random technology matrix, and a risk parameter (i.e., the reliability level) defined as a decision variable. We propose a Boolean modeling framework and derive a series of new equivalent mixed-integer programming formulations. We demonstrate the computational efficienc...

The importance of submerged aquatlc macrophytes to coastal ecosystems has generated a need for knowledge of minlmum l ~ g h t levels that wlll support the ma~n tenance and restoration of healthy populations Our goals were (1) to evaluate the s e n s ~ t ~ v ~ t y to natural, non-sinusoidal fluctuatlons in irradiance I of analytical integration techniques for calculating daily carbon gain (2) to...

One of the risks distinguishes urban projects from other projects is to purchase of property obstacles. The matter is of more significance in large projects. Issues with regard to possessing property obstacles, lack of accurate layout drawings for underground facilities and following probable changes in designs make it vital to have specific studies on risk management of such projects. So thi...