BACKGROUND In 2000, the USDHHS released Healthy People 2010 (HP2010), a series of disease prevention and health promotion objectives for the nation. Thirty-nine of these objectives were dedicated to injury prevention and six of these objectives related to adolescents, who were tracked through CDC's National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). PURPOSE This paper uses national YRBS data from 199...

abstract We explore ways of constructing eecient delay-insensitive (DI) networks from a set of primitive DI elements by means of a case study. Several approaches that improve on recent designs of a modulo-N counter in the literature are illustrated. We obtain low constant latency, low constant response time, constant power consumption and optimal area-complexity designs for this circuit. For mo...

In recent years the development of eGovernment has increasingly gone from service provision to striving for an interoperable public sector, with Enterprise Architectures being an increasingly popular approach. However, a central issue is the coordination of work, due to differing perceptions among involved actors. This paper provides a deepened understanding of this by addressing the question o...

Information Technology (IT) now plays a fundamental role in most organizations. This increased responsibility and consequent impact in business performance leads to a higher demand and tighter control on IT Departments. To respond to these requirements, IT Departments have been implementing Service Management frameworks, with ITIL currently being the most popular. However, many ITIL projects fa...

People counting is a crucial and challenging problem in visual surveillance. Automatic monitoring of the number of people in public areas is important for safety control and urban planning. For this purpose many techniques and methods have been proposed. These techniques are not producing high performance and better accuracy for complicated scenes counting. Recently Foreground Extraction and Ex...

People infected by the HIV virus do not just have their immune system impaired; gastrointestinal tract has been recognized as one of most damaged sites infection, and treatment for it can enhance these patients’ quality life.