Colorectal cancer is an important health problem in western countries. Early detection of colorectal cancer reduces mortality. The best evidence for the effectiveness of screening for colorectal cancer is with annual or biennial fecal occult blood testing. While the benefit of fecal occult blood testing is small in absolute terms, the incremental cost-effectiveness of this screening strategy ap...

This study examined the incremental validity of the adolescent short form of the Trait Emotional Questionnaire (TEIQue-ASF) in two European secondary-school samples. The TEIQue-ASF was administered as a predictor of socioemotional or academic achievement criteria, along with measures of coping strategies or cognitive ability, respectively. In Dutch high school students (N = 282), the TEIQue-ASF...

Several reliable multicast schemes using router assistance have been proposed recently, which not only promise performance gains, but also simplify applications. Since they require network assistance, the effectiveness of such schemes degrades if the deployment of the required network services is sparse, meaning that an effective deployment strategy is critical. In this paper we study the perfo...

It is widely reported in the literature that incremental clustering systems suuer from instance ordering eeects and that under some orderings, extremely poor clusterings may be obtained. In this paper we present a new general strategy aimed to mitigate these eeects, the Not-Yet strategy which has a general and open formulation and it is not coupled to any particular system. Unlike other proposa...

This study examined the incremental validity of the adolescent short form of the Trait Emotional Questionnaire (TEIQue-ASF) in two European secondary-school samples. The TEIQue-ASF was administered as a predictor of socioemotional or academic achievement criteria, along with measures of coping strategies or cognitive ability, respectively. In Dutch high school students (N = 282), the TEIQue-ASF...

In this article, we present an investigation case study based on an implementation and performance analysis of three different cache coherence strategies over a real wireless environment. Our research work considers the broadcasting timestamp, the cache coherency schema with incremental update propagation and the amnesic terminals strategies. These strategies are based on periodic broadcast of ...

Service discovery is an important and necessary component of ad hoc networks. To fit within the context of such networks, a post-query model with several service discovery strategies (named post-query strategies) are proposed, with a focus on locating services. Strategies consists of a sequence of post-query protocols executed in rounds and based on the location method employed they include the...

Many search and security games played on a graph can be modeled as normal-form zero-sum games with strategies consisting of sequences of actions. The size of the strategy space provides a computational challenge when solving these games. This complexity is tackled either by using the compact representation of sequential strategies and linear programming, or by incremental strategy generation of...