With the passage of the Heath Care Reform Bill into law in March 2010, many investors have expressed interest in the impact that the new legislation will have on the health care sector. The impact of the new law is significant to the U.S. economy as overall health spending currently represents about 17 percent of the U.S. GDP and is projected to increase to about 19 percent by 2019. The Congres...

A large numbers of metrics have been proposed for measuring properties of object-oriented software such as size, inheritance, cohesion and coupling. The coupling metrics presented in this paper exploring the difference between inheritance and interface programming. This paper presents a measurement to measure coupling between object (CBO), number of associations between classes (NASSocC), numbe...

Fixpoints of Galois connections induced by object-attribute data tables represent important patterns that can be found in relational data. Such patterns are used in several data mining disciplines including formal concept analysis, frequent itemset and association rule mining, and Boolean factor analysis. In this paper we propose efficient algorithm for listing all fixpoints of Galois connectio...

Saure Carhoxypeptidase, welche Phenylalanin von CbO-Leu-Phe-OH bei pH 5,3 abspaltet, ist ein in höheren Angiospermen weit verbreitetes Enzym. Es scheint dagegen in primitiven Angiospermen (Fagus und Magnolia) sowie in Gymnospermen und Kryptogamen (Ausnahme: Equisetum) zu fehlen. Bei Zitrone ist die Aktivität saurer Carboxypeptidase von Natur und Alter der extrahierten Gewebe abhängig (Exocarp u...

The goal of the study described in this research paper is the assessment of a recently developed intermediate representation language, called MHB (Many-Headed Bridge), as an intermediate step within the clinical guidelines formalisation process. We qualitatively assess (1) whether it makes easier the formalisation of the guideline and, (2) to which degree MHB covers written text guideline featu...

LCM is an algorithm for enumeration of frequent closed itemsets in transaction databases. It well known that when we ignore the required frequency, are exactly intents formal concepts Formal Concept Analysis (FCA). We describe terms FCA and show basically Close-by-One with multiple speed-up features processing sparse data. analyze compare them those similar algorithms, like FCbO algorithms from...

The federal government faces a daunting fiscal outlook, which makes the budgetary impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act even more important. The official Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis indicates modest deficit reduction over the next ten years and beyond. We examine the underpinnings of the CBO's projection and conclude that it is built on a shaky foundation of om...

The metrics suite for object-oriented design put forward by Chidamber and Kemerer [8] is partly evaluated by applying principles of measurement theory. Using the object coupling measure (CBO) as an example, it is shown that failing to establish a sound empirical relation system can lead to deficiencies of software metrics. Similarly, for the object-oriented cohesion measure (LCOM) it is pointed...

The federal government buys many goods and services that are expected to increase private-sector productivity—that is, the ability of the private-sector workforce, using the stock of capital, to produce goods and services. Such purchases by the federal government are called investment. In an earlier report, the Congressional Budget Office examined various aspects of federal investment itself, s...

Various object-oriented (OO) coupling metrics have been proposed for capturing the level of class coupling in object-oriented systems. Since product complexity plays a major role in determining the quality of software, metrics developed to characterize internal attributes such as coupling need to be validated to determine the usefulness of the measures. In this paper, we present an analysis of ...