national health information network (nhin) is a network in which all health care organizations, government agencies and other health-related organizations are connected to each other to exchange information about health. due to the necessity of a framework for nhin development, in this paper, according to the literature review, a definition for nhin framework was provided, and then the nhin rel...

In this paper, we present an unequal error protection (UEP) method for packet-loss resilient transmission of progressively compressed 3-D meshes. The proposed method is based on a source and channel coding approach where we set up a theoretical framework for the overall system by which the channel packet loss behavior and the channel bandwidth can be directly related to the decoded mesh quality...

We are deeply indebted to Jim Carey for providing us with the opportunity to do this research and for sharing his knowledge about counseling, to Oliver Zeng for his outstanding work in developing the loan matching routine, and to Jim Berkovec for his econometric insights and consultation. The views expressed in this paper are ours alone, and do not necessarily represent those of Freddie Mac or ...

Better cities require integrated planning and monitoring across the board that is inclusive of age-specific housing. Australia’s ageing population presents a number of challenges for provision of appropriate and affordable housing and care for those on low to moderate incomes. Those in private rental are at particular risk of homelessness or insecure housing, but also many low-income homeowners...

We construct genomic predictors for heritable and extremely complex human quantitative traits (height, heel bone density, and educational attainment) using modern methods in high dimensional statistics (i.e., machine learning). Replication tests show that these predictors capture, respectively, ∼40, 20, and 9 percent of total variance for the three traits. For example, predicted heights correla...

ll~tONEY SERVES AS A medium of exchange for transactions involving financial instruments as well as real goods and services. Unfortunately, the total volume of tt-ansactions iti the economy is not observable. As a result, economic analyses of rnomiev demand typically focus on the t-elationship between the quantity of money demanded and the production of new goods and services, measured by eithe...

Bayesian or likelihood-based approaches to data analysis became very popular in the field of Machine Learning. However, there exist theoretical results which question the general applicability of such approaches; among those a result by Robins and Ritov which introduce a specific example for which they prove that a likelihood-based estimator will fail (i.e. it does for certain cases not converg...

1 UMR6197, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes, IFREMER, Technopôle Brest Iroise, Plouzané, France, 2 Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes, UMR6197, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Plouzané, France, 3 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes, UMR6197, Technopôle Brest Iroise, Plouzané, Fra...