Introduction Safety-net health systems often lack incentives and resources to support performance measurement and improvement activities. The California Delivery System Reform Incentive Program (DSRIP) is a pay-for-performance initiative that incentivizes the state’s public health care systems to improve quality of care. Health system participants must report on metrics in both inpatient and ou...

In September of 1996, United States Congress directed the National Highway Traftic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to conduct a feasibility study toward establishing a Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) for frontal offset crash testing. Congress stated that these activities should reflect ongoing efforts to enhance ir ternational harmonization of safety standards. The offset c~.:.sh te...

This paper presents LANDFORM, a customized GIS application for semi-automated classification of landform elements, based on topographic attributes like curvature or elevation percentile. These parameters are derived from a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and used as thresholds for the classification of landform elements like crests, flats, depressions and slopes. With a new method, slopes were fu...

In the absence of evidence-based guidelines for high blood pressure screening in asymptomatic youth, a reasonable strategy is to screen those who are at high risk. The present study aimed to identify optimal body mass index (BMI) thresholds as a marker for high-risk youth to predict hypertension prevalence. In a cross-sectional study, youth aged 6 to 17 years (n=237,248) enrolled in an integrat...

OBJECTIVE HEALTHY is a 3-year middle school intervention program designed to reduce risk factors for type 2 diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes risk factors at baseline in a cohort of 6,358 sixth-grade students is reported. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Forty-two schools at seven U.S. sites were randomly assigned to intervention or control. Students participated in baseline data collection dur...

This paper presents LANDFORM, a customized GIS application for semi-automated classification of landform elements, based on landscape parameters. Using custom commands, topographic attributes like curvature or elevation percentile were derived from a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and used as thresholds for the classification of Crests, Flats, Depressions and Simple Slopes. With a new method, Si...

This paper presents LANDFORM, a customized GIS application for semi-automated landform classification based on the definitions of SPEIGHT (1990). A set of commands for GeoMedia was developed for an easy step-by-step generation of topographic attributes for the classification of landform elements. Using the new commands topographic attributes like curvature or elevation percentile were derived f...

We have developed a method to automatically detect incidents by detecting abnormal sound events from audio signals recorded in real environments. The proposed method uses the multi-stage Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), which learns rare sounds using multiple GMMs. In this work, we investigated the relationship between sound environment and detection performance, and found that the performance det...