Many Americans use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in pursuit of health and well-being. The 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which included a comprehensive survey of CAM use by Americans, showed that approximately 38 percent of adults use CAM. This fact sheet presents an overview of CAM, types of CAM, summary information on safety and regulation, the mission of the Nat...

precise application of the n fertilizer rate is critical to achieve maximum yield. in major regions, empirical methods were used for determining n fertilizer requirement. these methods cannot take into account variation in management and environmental conditions on determining fertilizer requirement. crop simulation models can provide an alternative means of determining the optimum crop n requi...

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) are population-based surveys that have each been linked to administrative data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): the Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) files. These linked data were used to examine, among children under age 18 years, respondent-level concordance be...

A recent highly cited publication, using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), concluded that the prevalence of childhood hearing loss in the United States is increasing (Shargorodsky, Curan, Curhan, & Eavey, 2010). This article examines the accuracy of that conclusion based on additional data from three nationally-representative surveys of childhood health. U...

This paper gives a state-of-art of wireless sensor network (WSN) technologies and solutions applied to precision agriculture (PA). The paper first considers applications and existing experiences that show how WSN technologies have been introduced in to agricultural applications. Then, a survey in hardware and software solutions is related with special emphasis on technological aspects. Finally,...

This paper presents a survey of similarity-oriented metrics recently developed for use in addressing the group technology machine cell formation problem. This survey seeks to contribute to the theory underlying the group technology machine cell formation problem by identifying themes in the evolution of these metrics in terms of structural form, and in terms of the form and levels of the inform...

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) brought a groundbreaking idea to facilitate network system management by decoupling and abstracting the Control plane Data of traditional networks. The centralised control offers administrators many benefits such as global view network, programmability, dynamic updating forwarding rules, software-based traffic analysis. SDN architecture has been applied lot in ...

The perspective taken in this report is to provide background information on recent efforts toward the convergence of computer science (both theoretical, dealing with algorithm complexity, and applied, dealing with the implementation of algorithms) and micro-economics techniques. We term computational economics the science that explores the intersection of economics and computation. Similarly t...