OBJECTIVES I explored the structural and operational practices of the chronic disease prevention and control unit of a state health department and proposed a conceptual model of structure, function, and effectiveness for future study. METHODS My exploratory case study examined 7 elements of organizational structure and practice. My interviews with staff and external stakeholders of a single c...

This paper summaries our recent work on the application of the concepts of capacity per unit cost and reliability function per unit cost to models of fading channels. The cost is taken to be the energy, or a certain fourth moment functional that is sensitive to the bursti-ness of the signals, and is related to the ambiguity function of the input signal. The channel is assumed to be a Wide-Sense...

This article is about clothing inventions, material participation, and acts of citizenship. I explore how pioneering Victorian women at the turn last century inventively responded via to restrictions their (physical ideological) freedom movement. While bicycle typically celebrated as a primary vehicle women’s emancipation that time, argue inventive forms clothing, such convertible cycling skirt...

This paper explains the application of ontologies in financial domains to a query expansion process. The final goal is to improve financial information retrieval effectiveness. The system is composed of an ontology and a Lucene index that stores and retrieves natural language concepts. An initial evaluation with a limited number of queries has been performed. Obtained results show that ambiguit...

The goal of syntactic ambiguity resolution is to produce the naturally preferred interpretation of any given input, while limiting computational resources. We present in this paper a statistical pruning device developed for a principle-based parser which attempts to satisfy this goal. We compare the performances of the resulting hybrid parser with an instance of the same parser including a symb...

In this paper we propose a new method to solve the problem of uncalibrated photometric stereo, making very weak assumptions on the properties of the scene to be reconstructed. Our goal is to solve the generalized bas-relief ambiguity (GBR) by performing a total variation regularization of both the estimated normal field and albedo. Unlike most of the previous attempts to solve this ambiguity, o...