This article describes the nature and utility of fiscal analysis in evaluating complex community interventions. Using New York University’s evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Urban Health Initiative as an example, the authors describe issues arising in defining and operationalizing constructs for fiscal analysis. The approach’s utility is demonstrated in the use of interim findi...

Information Retrieval is a research field strongly rooted in experimentation. Indeed, measuring is a key to scientific progress. Multilingual and multimedia information access systems, such as search engines, are increasingly complex: they need to satisfy diverse user needs and support challenging tasks. It is therefore fundamental to provide automated tools to examine system behaviour, both vi...

Introduction: Patients with Cystic Fibrosis have increased risk of malnutrition. Early detection of nutritional deterioration enables prompt intervention and correction. The aims of this project were to: - Define the nutritional status of CF patients in Iran and New Zealand -    Compare and contrast the MacDonald Nutritional Screening tool  with the Australasian guidelines for Nutrition in Cyst...

Our current research focus is on the representation and visualization of multidimensional multivariate (mDmV) data. We are developing a visualization evaluation tool, whose primary goal is to provide an environment for visualization researchers to evaluate human responses to different computer generated visual images. It has the ability to create mDmV data with embeddedstimuli, and display them...

protein nutritional status of dairy cows. Milk urea nitrogen reflects the amount of urea found in milk and these values are closely correlated with the concentration of urea found in the blood. MUN values should not be used by themselves when evaluation a herd’s feeding program but can be used in conjunction with evaluating milk production records, feeding management practices, and dry matter, ...

In this paper, we present a multimedia system designed to facilitate learning of alphabetical handwriting of various languages by incorporating visual, auditory, and haptic feedback. An XML-based schema has been used to easily introduce new characters from other languages. The system supports two modes of operation: a learning mode and an evaluation mode. In the learning mode, a user can see, h...

BACKGROUND Medication nonadherence is a common problem, resulting in significant human and economic cost, which can be a challenge to identify and resolve in practice. Adherence tools have been developed to assist health care providers with managing medication nonadherence; however, there is a need to develop a literature base for using adherence tools effectively.  OBJECTIVES To (a) describe...

The increasing need to check Web site accessibility has stimulated interest in tools to aid the various activities involved. While some tools for this purpose already exist, we believe that there is a demand for making their support more flexible. In particular, there is often a need for validation of multiple sets of guidelines, repairing Web pages and providing better reports for the evaluato...

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is starting two ambitious projects to (1) develop a taxonomy of software security flaws and vulnerabilities, (2) develop a taxonomy of software assurance (SA) functions and techniques which detect those flaws, (3) perform and maintain a survey of SA tools implementing the functions, (4) develop testable specifications of SA function...

The main objective of EMINENT project (Early Market Introduction of New ENergy Technologies) launched by EC DG TREN is to identify and accelerate introduction and implementation of leading edge European energy and environmental technology into the market place in Europe and worldwide. A software tool and an integrated database on new technologies and sectoral energy supplies and demands were de...