PURPOSE To assess vision health disparities in the United States by race/ethnicity, education, and economic status. DESIGN Cross-sectional, nationally representative samples. METHODS We used national survey data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Main outcome measures included, from NHANES, age-related eye dise...

This paper reviews the 2014 Intel judgment of the General Court of the EU in relation to exclusivity rebates given by dominant firms. It distinguishes between the positive issue – ie the legal standard currently applicable to the assessment of dominant firms' rebates – and the prospective discussion – ie the legal standard that should optimally apply to dominant firms’ rebates. On the positive ...

In the current health care environment, anesthesia practitioners are frequently required to reevaluate their practice to be more efficient and cost-effective. Although IV induction with propofol and inhalational induction with sevoflurane are both suitable techniques for outpatients, patients prefer IV induction. Maintenance of anesthesia with the newer inhaled anesthetics (ie, desflurane and s...

stationary sources are reponsible to 96.8 of sox and 70.1 percent of nox in tehran. there are more than 70 thousands factories located in tehran region. economic policy measures such as, charges, subsidies, and non-compliance fees, and also marketable permits, bubble policy, offets, netting and reforms in banking, are recommended. automobiles produce 71.2 percent of total air pollution in tehra...

This manuscript gives two possible rewritings from the mcsie system input language to hex programs, and compares them with respect to efficiency of evaluation in dlvhex.

We present an information extraction system for patient records which has been submitted to the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2014 Task 2. The task was information extraction from clinical text in terms of a disease/disorder template filling process. The system uses a lexicalized parser to annotate grammatical relations between diseases, disorders, and other constituents on a sentence level...

This paper reports on the development of thee Japanese Information Extraction system and the Japanese Information Extraction customization tool. These systems are based on the corresponding English systems, the Proteus Information Extraction system (Grishman 97) and the Proteus Extraction Tool (Yangarber and Grishman 97), developed at NYU. In this paper, we will, in particular, describe the dif...

We will report on the IREX (Information Retrieval and Extraction Exercise) project. It is an evaluation-based project for Information Retrieval and Information Extraction in Japanese. The project started in May 1998 and concluded in September 1999 with the IREX workshop held in Tokyo with more than 150 attendance (IREX Commettee, 1999). There is a homepage of the project at (IREX, Homepage) and...