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We argue that the field of Health Policy and Management (HPAM) ought to confront the gap between theory, policy, and practice. Although there are perennial efforts to reform healthcare systems, the conceptual barriers are considerable and reflect the theory-policy-practice gap. We highlight four dimensions of the gap: 1) the dominance of microeconomic thinking in health policy analysis and desi...

We have designed web based Conversion Software Registry (CSR) for collecting information about software that are capable of file format conversions. The work is motivated by a community need for finding file format conversions inaccessible via current search engines and by the specific need to support systems that could actually perform conversions, such as the NCSA Polyglot[2]. In addition, th...

OBJECTIVES Statistical matching is a method used to combine two files when it is unlikely that individuals on one file are also on the other file. The objectives of this report are to document and evaluate statistical matches of the March 1996 Current Population Survey (CPS) and the 1995 National Health interview Survey (NHIS) and give recommendations for improving future matches. The CPS-NHIS ...

Erez Zadok received a PhD in computer science from Columbia University in 2001. He directs the File systems and Storage Lab (FSL) at the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University, where he joined as faculty in 2001. His current research interests include file systems and storage, operating systems, energy efficiency, performance and benchmarking, security, and networking. He receive...

Product Name & Version AniCam Lite ( Version 1.0, build 0821) Product Category: School/university multimedia, intranet and internet software Producer Name: Nian-Shing Chen, Shin-Yi Huang, National Sun Yet-sen University Product link http://anicam.elearn.com.tw/ System Requirement Windows ME, 2000, XP Pentium class 500MHz+ For capture: Using Microsoft Video 1, at 2FPS and 1024*768, 10GB disk spa...

INTRODUCTION The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) Reference Data Set (RDS) is built on file signature generation technology that is used primarily in cryptography. The selection of the specific file signature generation routines is based on customer requirements and the necessity to provide a level of confidence in the reference data that will allow it to be used in the U.S. Courts. T...