This paper presents an approach to asses ICT investments in public administrations. The public sector bears great potential for business process optimization through ICT. However, these possibilities remain largely unexploited since the effects of ICT on the processes are not clear to decisions makers. To asses this impact all processes of a public administration, the process landscape, have to...

This document contains research in the field of Search Engine Marketing, to be specific it is focused on finding, implementing and evaluating a technique that can be used for keyword suggestion. Based on a set of words describing the subject, a algorithm finds and ranks keyword suggestions that can be used to advertise with. The main goal is to find keywords that are non-obvious, which means th...

Traditional safety-critical systems are designed and integrated by a systems integrator. The system integrator can asses the safety of the completed system before it is deployed. In medicine, there is a desire to transition from the traditional approach to a new model wherein a user can combine various devices post-hoc to create a new composite system that addresses a specific clinical scenario...

The extinct 'New World stilt-legged', or NWSL, equids constitute a perplexing group of Pleistocene horses endemic to North America. Their slender distal limb bones resemble those of Asiatic asses, such as the Persian onager. Previous palaeogenetic studies, however, have suggested a closer relationship to caballine horses than to Asiatic asses. Here, we report complete mitochondrial and partial ...

Abstract The Critically Endangered African wild ass Equus africanus is one of the most threatened equids, with fewer than 400 individuals persisting in Danakil Desert (Eritrea), and 600 globally. To effectively conserve species, it essential to determine extent available suitable habitats understand environmental factors that influence its current distribution. During 2016–2019 we observed asse...

Assessing the assumption of multivariate normality is required by many parametric multivariate statistical methods, such as discriminant analysis, principal component analysis, MANOVA, etc. Here, we present an R package to asses multivariate normality. The MVN package contains three most widely used multivariate normality tests, including Mardia’s, Henze-Zirkler’s and Royston’s multivariate nor...

To asses the advantages of a computerized surveillance system to detect Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI). All HAI reported to the Timis County branch of the Romanian National Health Insurance and the Public Health Authority during the year 2007 were collected and assessed for validity

We describe a software solution to the problem of automatic parallelization of linear algebra code on multi-processor and multi-core architectures. This solution relies on the definition of a domain specific language for matrix computations, a performance model for multiprocessor architectures and its implementation using C++ template metaprogramming. Experimental results asses this model and i...