OBJECTIVE To explore the implications of current approaches used by health plans and purchasers to identify preferred hospitals for tiered networks using cost and quality information. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING 2002 secondary data from WebMD Quality Services on hospital quality and costs in five markets (Boston, Miami, Phoenix, Seattle, and Syracuse). STUDY DESIGN We compared four alternati...

PURPOSE Cardiac computed tomography (CT) is widely used in clinical diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. Whole heart segmentation (WHS) plays a vital role in developing new clinical applications of cardiac CT. However, the shape and appearance of the heart can vary greatly across different scans, making the automatic segmentation particularly challenging. The objective of this work is to devel...

This study intends to expand a set of proper performance evaluation indices which embraces strategies for sustaining top performance using SWOT analysis inside a balanced scorecard (BSC) outline for the large commercial bank branches in IRAN by operating a fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis (FDEA). Through literature reviews and the banks’ experts and managers opinions and who have real practical ...

In the past few years, there has been much work on incorporating fairness requirements into algorithmic rankers, with contributions coming from data management, algorithms, information retrieval, and recommender systems communities. this survey, we give a systematic overview of work, offering broad perspective that connects formalizations approaches across sub-fields. An important contribution ...

the first step in policy making is describing the objectives and choosing the policy instruments and management strategies and then, analyzing and assessing the impacts of them. in this study, farmers’ responses to selected policy instruments and management strategies were assessed using a semi-distributed planning model in qazvin irrigation and drainage network. the proposed model, simulates t...

in competitive markets, the operations strategies of companies are normally formulated based on their competitive advantages. an effective operations strategy should maintain and improve competitive advantages based on the capabilities of the corporate operations resources. considering the market requirements and the operational performance of the rivals is the key for success and survival of a...

Interactive query reformulation has been shown to promote effective retrieval. This paper addresses the problem of how to order candidate query refinements to facilitate effective perusal by the user. Several ordering strategies are discussed. A refinement ranking algorithm is proposed. Initial impressions gleaned from a web-based prototype are shared.

This paper describes KB Video Retrieval's participation in the TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation for 2010. This year we submitted results for the Semantic Indexing, Known-item Search, Instance Search, and Event Detection in Internet Multimedia tasks. Our goal this year was to evaluate ranking strategies and expand our knowledge based approach to a variety of data sets and tasks.