PURPOSE To review integrated care interventions and their effects on the quality of care for patients with cancer. DATA SOURCES Search in Medline and Cochrane Library databases from January 1996 to October 2006. STUDY SELECTION Randomized controlled trials and controlled before-after studies in which the intervention focused on at least one of the three principles of integrated care: patien...

Pairwise testing has become an indispensable tool in a software tester’s toolbox. The technique has been known for almost twenty years [22] but it is the last five years that we have seen a tremendous increase in its popularity. Information on at least 20 tools that can generate pairwise test cases, have so far been published [1]. Most tools, however, lack practical features necessary for them ...

We investigate spatial acceleration structures within collision handling in scenarios with ”worst-case” spatial layout. These are scenarios where lots of collisions and interactions persist over large time intervals. We focus on acceleration structures based on uniform grids and assess their efficiency in construction, update and query. Z-curves as a technique for the mapping of spatial localit...

Age related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the primary cause of adult blindness. Currently AMD cannot be cured, however early detection does allow the progress of the condition to be inhibited. One of the first symptoms of AMD is the presence of fatty deposits, called drusen, on the retina. The presence of drusen may be identified through the manual inspection/screening of retinal images. This t...

This work is an up-to-date-extension of a previous annotated bibliography (2004) which covered 40 references only. It focuses on what has been published during the last ten years in the area of combinatorial optimization and scheduling theory concerning robustness and other similar techniques dealing with worst case optimization under uncertainty and non-accuracy of problem data.

Both in the componentand object-based contexts it is extremely important to derive as early as possible suitable test cases based on the UML specifications available during development. In this paper we focus on the integrated use of Sequence and State Diagrams for deriving a “reasonably” complete reference model, which will then be used for automatically deriving the test cases. The approach i...

The information generated from the Internet of Things (IoT) potentially enables a better understanding of the physical world for humans and supports creation of ambient intelligence for a wide range of applications in different domains. A semantics-enabled service layer is a promising approach to facilitate seamless access and management of the information from the large, distributed and hetero...

We present the side-effect free programming course environment GUPU that seamlessly guides and supports students during all phases of program development covering specification, implementation, and program debugging. GUPU features several innovations in this area. The specification phase is supported by reference implementations augmented with diagnostic facilities. During implementation, immed...

Improving a long standing result of Bent and John, we obtain a (2+ )n lower bound (for some fixed > 0) on the number of comparisons required, in the worst case, for selecting the median of n elements. The new lower bound is obtained using a weight function that allows us to combine leaf counting and adversary arguments.

The cubed-sphere grid is a spherical grid made of six quasi-cartesian square-like patches. It was originally introduced in [21]. We extend to this grid the design of high-order nite-di erence compact operators [4, 11]. The present work is limitated to the design of a fourth-order accurate spherical gradient. The treatment at the interface of the six patches relies on a speci c interpolation sys...