BACKGROUND The Healthy Carolinians community microgrants project provided microgrants to community-based organizations (CBOs) across North Carolina. These grants were made to serve as a catalyst to engage the CBOs in health promotion activities that addressed Healthy People 2010 objectives. The purpose of this initiative was to increase the awareness of Healthy People 2010 objectives, mobilize ...

In [TE93] the authors discussed the notion of controllability of hybrid systems in connection with a framework for the speci cation of hybrid systems that is based on the hybrid automata proposed by [ACHH93], and presented an algorithm to generate correct controllaws for such systems. This report should be seen as a complement to the above mentioned paper in that it describes and proves the int...

Sputtered-deposited Zn(O,S) is an attractive alternative to CdS for Cu(In, Ga)Se 2 (CIGS) thin-film solar cells' buffer layer. It has a higher band gap and thus allows greater blue photon collection to achieve higher photon current. The primary goal of the thesis is to investigate the effects of the secondary barrier at the buffer-absorber interface on the distortions to current-voltage (J-V) c...

In this thesis, I consider the problem of designing a collision avoidance system for the scenario in which two cars approach an intersection from perpendicular directions. One of the cars is a human driven vehicle, and the other one is a semi-autonomous vehicle, equipped with a driver-assist system. The driver-assist system should warn the driver of the semi-autonomous vehicle to brake or accel...

tower cranes are major and expensive equipment that are extensively used at building construction projects and harbors for lifting heavy objects to demand points. the tower crane locating problem to position a tower crane and supply points in a building construction site for supplying all requests in minimum time, has been raised from more than twenty years ago. this problem has already been so...

the seismic performance of hybrid braces composed of steel and shape memory alloy (sma) was investigated in this paper. six types of hybrid braces were used, constituted by sma content of 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, and 100%. a nonlinear dynamic analysis was performed under el centro earthquake records, with the maximum acceleration of 0.6g and 0.9g. our results showed that the seismic performance, i.e....

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...

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...

BACKGROUND Harm reduction case management relies on client-identified goals to drive the provision of care in order to "meet clients where they are at". This research measured the level of agreement between client-identified needs and agency-provided services at a community based organization (CBO) in Washington DC by examining: (1) the services clients most often identified, (2) the services m...

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...