MEAN-SHIFT CLUSTERING AS ASSISTANCE IN THE HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT PLANNING Jaroslav Vorlíček, Jan Rusz Department of Electromagnetic Field, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague Department of Circuit Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague; Laboratory of Biocybernetics, Institute of Pathological Physiology, First Faculty ...

BACKGROUND In 2008, the US government mandated that HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs funded by the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) should shift from US-based international partners (IPs) to registered locally owned organizations (local partners, or LPs). The US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) developed the Clinical Assessment for Systems Strengthen...

We studied three new incentive-based programs for restoring endangered species on private lands in the United States: safe harbor, Environmental Defense’s Landowner Conservation Assistance Program, and conservation banking. For each program, we gathered data on the number of participating landowners, the number of species targeted for assistance, and the cumulative acreage of enrolled land. Mea...

We should like to thank Dr R. Y. Thomson and Mr R. Logan for their assistance in some of these experiments, Mr A. J. Taylor for technical assistance and Dr J. A. Roper of the Department of Genetics in this University for help in the radiation experiments. We are also indebted to Dr A. C. White of the Wellcome Physiology Research Laboratories for assistance in the supply of venom. The expenses o...

Julie Solo (Nairobi) is Staff Program Associate; Annamaria Cerulli was Michigan Fellow (Dakar) at the time of the case studies and is now Director of Foreign Assistance for the Ministry of Health of Nicaragua; Robert Miller (NY) is Senior Program Associate; Ian Askew (Nairobi) is Project Director and Elizabeth Pearlman (NY) is Project Assistant, all with the Population Council’s Africa Operatio...