Improving the health of communities is a foundational mission of the Medical college of Wisconsin (McW). the last 10 years have been characterized by substantial progress in fulfillment of our promise to the public, and plans for the future are poised to be even more transformative. the enhanced capacity to effect change began with blue cross & blue Shield united of Wisconsin’s decision in 1999...

Alex Waibel Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 [email protected] We present the "Multi-State Time Delay Neural Network" (MS-TDNN) as an extension of the TDNN to robust word recognition. Unlike most other hybrid methods. the MS-TDNN embeds an alignment search procedure into the connectionist architecture. and allows for word level supervision. The resulting system has the ability to ma...

Temporary threshold shifts (TTSs) in vibrotactile perception produced by continuous vibration and repetitive shock have been investigated. Subjects were exposed to vertical hand-transmitted 100 Hz continuous vibration and various repetitive shocks of equal energy content formed from one complete cycle of a 100 Hz sine wave. The repetition rate of the cycles was 5, 25, 50, or 100 s-1 while the r...

OBJECTIVE To compare changes in diagnosed diabetes prevalence and incidence among Status Aboriginal men and women living in urban and rural areas of Alberta. METHODS We compared trends in diabetes prevalence and incidence from 1995 to 2006 based on diagnostic codes from Alberta Health and Wellness (AHW) administrative records for adults aged 20 years and older. The AHW Registry file was used ...

Naturally occurring human immunity to both schistosomiasis and hookworm infection has been associated with IgE responses against parasite allergen-like proteins. Since the two helminths frequently coinfect the same individuals, there is growing advocacy for their concurrent treatment. However, both helminths are known to exert strong immunomodulatory effects; therefore, coinfected individuals c...

BACKGROUND Excessive use of alcohol is associated with poor sexual health, but the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of brief alcohol intervention in this setting has not been investigated. OBJECTIVE To examine the effects and cost-effectiveness of brief intervention for excessive alcohol consumption among people who attend sexual health clinics. DESIGN A two-arm, parallel-group...

The predictability of Cyclone Sidr in the Bay of Bengal was explored in terms of track and intensity using the Advanced Research Hurricane Weather Research Forecast (AHW) model. This constitutes the first application of the AHW over an area that lies outside the region of the North Atlantic for which this model was developed and tested. Several experiments were conducted to understand the possi...