Link analysis is a technique frequently used in the ranking of web sites. On the web, we often encounter content that is organized by entries, sorted from recent to old, and generally follows the structure of a blog. In this paper we explore and evaluate the usage of a bibliometrics measure, called hindex, for the task of blog ranking, in an information retrieval context. We base our experiment...

IMPORTANCE A metric of efficiency, a function of the ratio of quality to cost per patient, will allow the health care system to better measure the impact of specific reforms and compare the effectiveness of each. OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate an efficiency index that estimates the performance of an ophthalmologist's practice as a function of cost, number of patients receiving care, and qu...

Several methods have been proposed to simulate yield in crop simulation models. In this work, we present a simple method to estimate harvest index (HI) of grain crops based on fractional post-anthesis phase growth ( fG = fraction of biomass accumulation that occurred in the post-anthesis phase). We propose that HI increases in a linear or curvilinear fashion in response to fG. The linear model ...

The Kaplan-Yorke conjecture suggests a simple relationship between the fractal dimension of a system and its Lyapunov spectrum. This relationship has important consequences in the broad field of nonlinear dynamics where dimension and Lyapunov exponents are frequently used descriptors of system dynamics. We develop an experimental system with controllable dimension by making use of the Kaplan-Yo...

PIH64 FamIly PreFerences In tHe Volume Versus outcome Debate: ImPlIcatIons For tHe DelIVery oF comPlex PeDIatrIc care O’Leary G.1, Lockhart A.1, Mullenger R.2, Warren A.2, Hancock Friesen C.2, Levy A.2, Molinari M.2, O’Blenes S.2 1IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada, 2Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Objectives: A Relationship between volume and outcome for complex medical procedure...

North Labuhanbatu Regency is one of the districts in Sumatera that has potential development livestock. This research aims to find out agriculture and plantation waste as well areas can be used a area for goat sheep livestock Regency. The type descriptive describe determining using LQ methods combined with density, support index capacity increase ruminants population. was conducted February–Apr...

Qualifying types represent a new approach to modifying the behaviour of instances of other types in a general way, in the form of components which can be designed and implemented without a prior knowledge of the types to be modified or their implementations. This paper illustrates the idea by showing how they can be used to program various standard synchronisation problems, including mutual exc...

Industry cluster and supply chain are in focus of every countries which rely on knowledge-based economy. Both focus on improving the competitiveness of firm in the industry in the different aspect. This paper tries to illustrate how the industry cluster can increase the supply chain performance. Then, the proposed methodology concentrates on the collaboration and knowledge exchange in supply ch...

Changes in the snow cover extent are both a cause and a consequence of climate change. Optical remote sensing with heliosynchronous satellites currently provides snow cover data at high spatial resolution with daily revisiting time. However, high latitude image acquisition is limited because reflective sensors of many satellites are switched off at high solar zenith angles (SZA) due to lower si...