Diseases and health conditions are, by and large, studied in separate silos. Policies to reduce morbidity and mortality are developed within each " disease silo ". In many parts of the world, there is still no systematic evaluation of disease control or health-care programmes, thus hampering efforts to efficiently allocate scarce resources. Health is not a stand-alone phenomenon with clear boun...

in assessing foreign language writing, holistic and analytic scoring can be used to measure a variety of discourse and linguistic features. this study aimed to investigate the possible significant effect of analyt- ic and holistic assessments on improving writing skill among iranian efl learners. for this purpose, two groups of intermediate efl learners, after being homogenized, were divided in...

Growing evidence has demonstrated cultural differences in cognitive processes. Whereas individuals living in interdependent social worlds, as illustrated by East Asian cultures, have been shown to have a more holistic cognitive style, those living in independent social environments, as exemplified by Western cultures, have been shown to have a more analytic cognitive style. Recent evidence has ...

PURPOSE Dance/movement therapy is introduced as a holistic approach to children's health issues, incorporating an array of medical, psychological, social, and spiritual issues. OVERVIEW Dance/movement therapy, with its unique emphasis on nonverbal communication in assessment and treatment, is presented as an innovative therapeutic approach to address the comprehensive needs of children and ad...

In this paper, we address the problem of parametric schedulability analysis of distributed real-time systems scheduled by fixed priority. We propose two different approaches to parametric analysis. The first one is a novel analytic technique that extends single-processor sensitivity analysis to the case of distributed systems. The second approach is based on model checking of Parametric Stopwat...

Resource allocation has been recognised as an important topic for business process execution. In this paper, we focus on planning resources for a massive number of process instances to meet the process requirements and cater for rational utilisation of resources before execution. After a motivating example, we present a model for planning resources for process instances. Then we design a set of...

Holistic approaches are gaining increasing popularity in the management of psychiatric disorders. Yoga is among the oldest sciences with a holistic approach and hence, has been studied extensively in psychiatry. Many uncertainties and methodological problems and both theoretical as well as practical issues, surround research pertaining to yoga in health and disease. Various studies have emphasi...

The class of low-cost, distributed ubiquitous systems represents a computing mode where a system has small, inexpensive networked processing devices, distributed at all scales throughout business activities and everyday life. The unique features of such a class of ubiquitous systems make the security analysis different from that for the centralized computing paradigms. This paper presents a hol...

In this paper, a new technique called Lophoscopic PCA is developed for recognition of partially occluded faces and faces with strong facial expression variations. As opposed to the PCA or the Eigenfeatures approaches, this method does not try to solve the face recognition problem neither from a holistic, nor a feature perspective; in fact it studies the problem from a near or pseudo-holistic pe...