The extraction of man-made features from high resolution digital satellite imagery is an important step to underpin management geo-information in any country. Man-made and buildings particular are required for various applications such as urban planning, creation geographic information systems databases generation models. Manual processes expensive, labor intensive, need well trained personnel ...

Niam Yaraghi is a Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation. He is an expert on the economics of health information technologies. Nearly two million Americans spend an average of 835 days of their lives in one of the 15,700 nursing home facilities in the United States (National Center for Health Statistics 2009). The Department of Health and Human Services estimates...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether distance to services or diagnosis at a hospital-based medical center compared with a community clinic influences the receipt of psychotherapy versus pharmacotherapy for depression. DATA SOURCE Veterans Affairs (VA) administrative data for 132,329 depressed veterans between October 2003 and September 2004. STUDY DESIGN Multivariable logistic and multinomial regres...

At this medical center, the transfusion trigger and the hemoglobin low critical limit are identical (< 8.0 g/dL), but should they be the same? To answer this question, over one year all hemoglobin results < 8.0 g/dL (n = 421) were reviewed, physician awareness of and response to various hemoglobin levels were evaluated, and the effect of adopting a lower hemoglobin critical limit assessed. Pati...

a pedigree file of 382831 holstein cows and bulls, collected from herds registered by animal breeding center of iran during 1967 to 1999, was used to calculate the inbreeding coefficient. the mean inbreeding coefficient for the whole population (male and female), on a base year of 1946, was 0.184%. the means for cows (94 percent of the whole population) and bulls (6 percent of the whole populat...

This article explores whether Medicare pays more for the same outpatient services provided in an acute specialty hospital than in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC). How financially dependent a specialty hospital is on ASC-eligible services is also investigated. Medicare outpatient claims in 43 orthopedic and 12 surgical specialty hospitals in 2004 were repriced using ASC pricing software. Paym...

We construct an accurate approximation to the exact NNLO cross section for Higgs production in gluon-gluon fusion by matching the dominant finite top mass corrections recently computed by us to the known result in the infinite mass limit. The ensuing corrections to the partonic cross section are very large when the center of mass energy of the partonic collision is much larger than the Higgs ma...

increasing the efficiency of water use is one of the main topics of sustainable agriculture in arid and semi-arid. the use of some materials such as superabsorbent polymers increase water storage in the soil and thus reduces the water use. increase water storage in the soil to reduce the effects of drought and saline soil. in order to evaluate the effect of super absorbent polymer on survival a...

RESULTS: Eighty-five out of the 282 ACAPS members (30.1%) responded to the survey (Table 1). Eighty participants (94%) reported having mainly a reconstructive practice. The majority of survey participants (69.1%) had a base salary plus a bonus based either on collections or WRVUs (Figure 1). Sixty-three percent of plastic surgeons in the survey received less than $50 as a compensation per WRVU....