Knowing which users are likely to churn (i.e. leave) a service enables service providers to offer retention incentives for users to remain. To date, the prediction of churners has been largely performed through the examination of users’ social network features; in order to see how churners and non-churners differ. In this paper we examine the social and lexical development of churners and non-c...

OBJECTIVE Latinos are the largest and most rapidly growing minority population group in the USA and are disproportionally affected by obesity and related chronic diseases. Child care providers likely influence the eating and physical activity behaviours of children in their care, and therefore are important targets for interventions designed to prevent childhood obesity. Nonetheless, there is a...

Introduction Both the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and New York State (NYS) have embarked on an ambitious journey to improve outcomes for patients and populations, reward the delivery of high value care by providers, and increase long‐term financial sustainability. In this document, New York State presents an approach to maximally align CMS’ payment reform efforts for Medicare...

Current implementation of new technologies for Communication, Navigation, Surveillance and Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM systems) along with computational improvements on airborne and ground systems developed in the last two decades, point out the need for more strategic navigation and air-traffic control procedures based on four-dimensional (position plus time) trajectories. Moreover, the CN...

In the fall of 2004, the United States faced a national shortage of influenza vaccine after a major vaccine manufacturer was unable to produce millions of doses of the vaccine due to potential contamination. Many public and private sector entities had far fewer doses of influenza vaccine to allocate than they had anticipated. In response, federal, state, and local public health officials, priva...

background: preconceptional care is very effective to ensure mothers and babies health during and after pregnancy. the clinics and health center personnel are able to offer preconceptional care especially to the risky cases. learning about the experiences of health center personnel in such cases is useful for others to find solutions for the same problems which may come up. this study tends to ...

objectives: amblyopia is most common binocular vision anomalies. to comprise is decrease of visual acuity witch doesn't remove by optical correction. nowadays because of the psychosocial problem with amblyopia, is a functional disability. awareness of parents of children with amblyopic life experience, when facing with curing system can provide effective for promotion of self-assessment, t...