Statistical Treatment Choice: An Application to Active Labour Market Programmes Choosing among a number of available treatments the most suitable for a given subject is an issue of everyday concern. A physician has to choose an appropriate drug treatment or medical treatment for a given patient, based on a number of observed covariates X and prior experience. A case worker in an unemployment of...

Recently, object affordances have moved into the focus of researchers in computer vision. Affordances describe how an object can be used by a specific agent. This additional information on the purpose of an object is used to augment the classification process. With the herein proposed approach we aim at bringing affordances and object classification closer together by proposing fine-grained aff...

RXTE and other high-energy observatories continue to probe the properties of stellar-size black holes and the physics of accretion using bright X-ray transients in the Galaxy. Progress has been made in recognizing that the three states of active accretion are related to different physical elements that may contribute radiation: the accretion disk, a jet, and a compact and radio-quiet corona. Ea...

BACKGROUND The workplace is a main setting for prolonged sitting for some occupational groups. Convincing evidence has recently accumulated on the detrimental cardio-metabolic health effects of leisure-time sitting. Yet, much less is known about occupational sitting, and the potential health risk attached compared to leisure-time sitting. OBJECTIVE To explore the separate and joint associatio...

The aim of this study was to validate the performance and reliability of results obtained from a classification model that measures time spent performing activities in confined (CE) and unrestricted (UE) environments. In CE, participants wore a pair of biaxial and/or triaxial accelerometers while performing pre-determined training activities classified as variants of lying down, dynamic standin...

[Purpose] To investigate the effects of erect sitting, slouched posture with cross-legged sitting, and erect posture with cross-legged sitting on the lumbar and pelvic angles, and gluteal pressure. [Subjects] For the experiments, 17 healthy women were recruited. [Methods] All subjects were asked to perform three sitting postures: erect sitting, slouched posture with cross-legged sitting, and er...

This paper discusses the relationship between tabulation and goal-oriented bottom-up evaluation of logic programs. Some diierences emerge when one tries to identify features of one evaluation method in the other. We show that to obtain the same eeect as tabulation in top-down, one has to perform a careful adornment in programs to be evaluated bottom-up. Furthermore we propose an eecient algorit...

OBJECTIVES To identify women's complaints about pain in the immediate postpartum of vaginal delivery and cesarean section; to measure the intensity of pain in postpartum women at rest and with selected movements and to compare the activity limitations in relation to the mode of delivery and parity. METHOD Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study. Eighty-six women, in the immediate po...

Background: Postoperative pubic or ischial stress fracture may be a complication after curved periacetabular osteotomy (CPO). The discontinuity of the superior pubic rami is a risk factor for this complication. We investigated the stress field differences in standing and sitting positions after CPO. Methods: We used finite element analysis to assess the effects of inferior pubic rami and ischia...

Active aging, that is the idea that policy encourage and enable people to participate actively in social, political and economic life, is a political backwater in Europe. Since demographic aging affects may different policy domains in different ways, the institutional landscapes in which aging and active aging policy takes place are fragmented. This means that two distinct and countervailing in...