The Third Generation Partnership Program’s Long-term Evolution (3GPP LTE) group is developing a new standard for mobile broad-band access that will meet the throughput and coverage requirements beyond third generation cellular technology. The key goals for this evolution are increased data rate, improved spectrum efficiency, improved coverage. To evaluate and ensure the overall performance of L...

MOTIVATION Current DNA sequencing technology produces reads of about 500-750 bp, with typical coverage under 10x. New sequencing technologies are emerging that produce shorter reads (length 80-200 bp) but allow one to generate significantly higher coverage (30x and higher) at low cost. Modern assembly programs and error correction routines have been tuned to work well with current read technolo...

We describe an extension of the Wysiwym technology for knowledge editing through natural language feedback. Previous applications have addressed relatively simple tasks requiring a very limited range of nominal and clause patterns. We show that by adding a further editing operation called reconfiguration, the technology can achieve a far wider coverage more in line with other generalpurpose gen...

As the number and cost of new technologies grow, it is increasingly important that we develop sound policies for payment for those technologies while their clinical impacts are being defined. Such policies need to balance social interests in promotion of innovation, early access to promising technology, patient safety, control of health care costs, and return on investment. We present a rationa...

The Natural Language Processing (NLP) group at Microsoft Research has been working for over five years on the development of a broad-coverage NL understanding system. In the last two years, the NLP group has been joined by the World Languages Research group, whose current mission is to extend the NLP group's technology to both European and Far-Eastern languages, and by the Natural Language Deve...

The multi-homing technology can provide an extended coverage area via distinct access technologies. Also, it is able to redirect a flow from one interface to another without reinitiating the flow. However, there is no suitable multi-homing technology for ubiquitous network environment at the moment. To provide multi-homing schemes into the ubiquitous environment, various related researches shou...

In this paper, we discuss the reasons why we urgently need a point-of-care (POC) CD4 test, elaborate the problems we have experienced with the current technology which hampers CD4-count coverage and highlight the ideal characteristics of a universal CD4 POC test. It is high-time that CD4 technology is simplified and adapted for wider use in low-income countries to change the current paradigm of...

Switzerland has a mixed public and private healthcare system. All citizens are enrolled in compulsory basic health insurance. A 1996 law allows people to choose among different sickness funds and managed care plans. The federal government is empowered to act on important health issues, but the 26 cantons have prime responsibility in health care and social welfare. They have their own laws on he...

Let Sn be the set of all permutations on [n] := {1, 2, . . . , n}. We denote by κn the smallest cardinality of a subset A of Sn+1 that “covers” Sn, in the sense that each π ∈ Sn may be found as an order-isomorphic subsequence of some π′ in A. What are general upper bounds on κn? If we randomly select νn elements of Sn+1, when does the probability that they cover Sn transition from 0 to 1? Can w...

Adoption of personalized medicine in practice has been slow, in part due to the lack of evidence of clinical benefit provided by these technologies. Coverage by insurers is a critical step in achieving widespread adoption of personalized medicine. Insurers consider a variety of factors when formulating medical coverage policies for personalized medicine, including the overall strength of eviden...