Disparities in health care associated with patients' gender, race, and age are well documented. Previous studies using virtual human (VH) technology have demonstrated that provider characteristics may play an important role in pain management decisions. However, these studies have largely emphasized group differences. The aims of this study were to examine dentists' and physicians' use of VH ch...

OVERVIEW Patient-provider communication is vital to quality patient care in oncology settings and impacts health outcomes. Newer communication datasets contain patient symptom reports, real-time audiofiles of visits, coded communication data, and visit outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to: (1) review the complex communication processes during patient-provider interaction during oncology ca...

BACKGROUND Communication between African American patients and white health care providers has been shown to be of poorer quality when compared with race-concordant patient-provider communication. Fear on the part of patients that providers stereotype them negatively might be one cause of this poorer communication. This stereotype threat may be lessened by a values-affirmation intervention. M...

Recent technological advances and the heightened expectations of e-health consumers are about to transform the U.S. health care industry. As consumers demand more online services, physicians respond by adopting information technology into their daily routines. In this paper, we first present recent developments within the telemedicine field that necessitate the establishment of a consumer-to-he...

For our participation in TREC-10, we will focus on the searching distributed collections and also on designing and implementing a new search strategy to find homepages. Presented in the first part of this paper is a new merging strategy based on retrieved list lengths, and in the second part a development of our approach to creating retrieval models able to combine both Web page and URL address...

Pohjakallio_176x250.indd 3 4.3.2011 10.34 Abstract_Pohjakallio_176x250.indd 3 4.3.2011 10.34Pohjakallio_176x250.indd 3 4.3.2011 10.34 2-Isoksatsoliinit ovat heterosyklisiä yhdisteitä, joita voidaan käyttää monipuolisesti synteettisinä välivaiheina erilaisten hyödyllisten rakenneyksiköiden valmistamisessa. 2-Isoksatsoliinien hyödyllisyys on pitkään perustunut niiden helppoon synteesiin erityises...

Proof. Let pa ≡ sup{p ∈ [0, 1] : a(p) > 0}, pc ≡ sup{p ∈ [0, 1] : d(p,H) = 1}, τa ≡ inf{t > 0 : pt = pa, p0 = 1}, and τc ≡ inf{t > 0 : pt = pc, p0 = 1}. First, we show that in any equilibrium pa ≤ pc. Looking for a contradiction, suppose that pa > pc. Let’s consider the behavior of beliefs at the threshold pa. If a(pa) ≥ pa then λ(a(pa) − pa) ≥ 0 so beliefs never cross the threshold pa. On the ...

Active networking, where network nodes perform customized processing of packets, is a rapidly expanding field of research. This paper investigates the realization of service management on a Virtual Active Network (VAN), the key concept in our management framework for active networks [1]. A VAN is a generic service offered by the VAN provider to the customer. The VAN abstraction transforms a mul...

Active networking is an expanding field of research. It includes the ability to easily install and modify customized network services and to process packets within the network in a customized way. This paper addresses the question of how the benefits of active networking can be exploited in an environment, where a large number of customers must share a common network infrastructure. We introduc...

The WebBeholder is a cooperative agent community framework that provides open services on finding and displaying changes on the World Wide Web. Several agents and components in the community interact with one another to achieve the goals issued by users of the system. The system consists of a service provider agent that keeps watching and detecting changes on the Web, a number of personal mobil...