OBJECTIVES To examine the effectiveness of an ongoing statewide public health quality improvement training program (PH QI 101) among 4 cohorts of training participants. DESIGN We conducted a mixed-method evaluation of the PH QI 101 training program that included measures of participants' satisfaction, learning, behavior change, and participants' translation and spread to their organizations w...

The concept of k-anonymity, used in the recent literature (e.g., [10, 11, 7, 5, 1]) to formally evaluate the privacy preservation of published tables, was introduced in the seminal papers of Samarati and Sweeney [10, 11] based on the notion of quasi-identifiers (or QI for short). The process of obtaining k-anonymity for a given private table is first to recognize the QIs in the table, and then ...

I have had the opportunity to review numerous manuscripts reporting on efforts to teach patient safety and quality improvement (PS/QI) to others, initially as a reviewer, and now as an associate editor for the Journal of Graduate Medical Education. The most likely reason that I have been asked to review many of these papers is that I published a systematic literature review in 2010 that summari...

An efficient statistical algorithm of automatic extracting road from SAR images is devised in this paper. First, an feature detecting operator is used to find the road candidate. Then another smaller operator which calculating the homogenous statistic of locate region is applied to reduce the false alarm and smooth the road edge. Finally, the road linear features are extracted by fusing the res...

A function-based linear map symbol building and rendering method using shader language Songshan Yue, Jianshun Yang, Min Chen, Guonian Lu, Axing Zhu & Yongning Wen a State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base of Geographical Environment Evolution (Jiangsu Province), Nanjing, China b Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, ...

Response: Qi et al. (2017a) has been revised to Qi et al. (2017b). We extended the time period from one month (April) in Qi et al. (2017b) to four months (each representing one season) and extended from the surface BC in Qi et al. (2017b) to the column BC that has implications for radiative forcing. We have highlighted these differences in the sentence as “We extend the application of this meth...

Quality management (QM) is considered to be an important management philosophy that sustains organizations towards continuous quality improvement (QI) and customer satisfaction. The conventional wisdom is that quality improvement leads to higher revenues, decreased costs, and increased profits. This paper examines the influence of the critical soft factors (CSFs) on QI practice and organization...

Let p(~x) ∈ R[~x] be SOS in t real polynomial squares. Then, p(~x) must have even degree. Let deg(p(~x)) = 2k. Then, ∃q1, . . . , qt ∈ R[~x] s.t. deg(qi(~x)) ≤ k and p(~x) = ∑t i=1 q 2 i (~x). A key observation is that we can now exactly characterise the finitely many possible power-products that could occur in each qi(~x). Definition 1.1. Let Λn(d) = {α = 〈α1, . . . , αn〉 ∈ Nn | α1 + . . .+ αn...

Payers, accreditors, and consumers are using quality improvement (QI) methods, but little is known about whether physicians do so. The results from this 2003 national physician survey indicate that most do not. Physicians do not routinely use data for assessing their performance and are reluctant to share those data. They infrequently participate in redesign activities. Physicians in larger and...

Let R be a real closed field and Q1, , Ql∈R[X1, ,Xk] such that for each i,1≤ i≤ l, deg (Qi)≤di. For 1≤ i≤ l, denote by Qi={Q1, , Qi}, Vi the real variety defined by Qi, and ki an upper bound on the real dimension of Vi (by convention V0=R k and k0= k). Suppose also that 2≤ d1≤ d2≤ 1 k+1 d3≤ 1 (k+1)2 d4≤ ≤ 1 (k+1)l−3 dl−1≤ 1 (k+1)l−2 dl, and that l≤k. We prove that the number of semi-algebraical...