BACKGROUND Following disasters, persons with disabilities (PWD) are especially vulnerable to harm, yet they have commonly been excluded from disaster planning, and their needs have been poorly addressed during disaster relief. Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, thousands of individuals experienced acute injuries. Many more individuals with preexisting disabilities experienced heightened vulne...

With the tremendous progress in bioinformatics we are facing new challenges where complex data set need to be analyzed to glean meaningful scientific knowledge. Though statistical tools were slow to emerge in the beginning, however it was discovered early that there exist some seemingly related issues in many of the different bioinformatics data sets. They are generally overly complex giving ri...

and H. Scarborough. Fourth Edition. (Pp. xi + 1065; illustrated. 63s.) Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1959. SINCE first published in 1950 new editions of this textbook have appeared regularly at three yearly intervals and have won for the book a place of high preference among undergraduate medical students. The reasons for this popularity are clear. The combined efforts of a biochem...

Since the earliest days of the electronic computer, there has always been a small group of people who have seen the computer as an extension of biology, and have endeavored to build computing models and even hardware that are inspired by, and in some cases, direct copies of biological systems. Though biology spans a wide range of systems, the primary model for these early efforts has been neura...

BACKGROUND Primary care providers (PCP) are the entry point for public sector depression treatment for many Latino patients. However, many Latino patients do not initiate their PCPs' recommended treatment, which likely contributes to ethnic disparities in depression treatment. This study examined factors related to Latino patients' uptake of their PCPs' recommendations for depression treatment....

The weighted feedback arc set problem on tournaments (WFAS-T) is defined by a weighted tournament graph whose nodes represents the teams/items, and the goal is to find a ranking over the teams that minimizes the sum of the weights of the feedback arcs. We consider the probabilistic version of WFAS-T, in which the weights of the directed edges between every pair of teams sum up to one. A WFAS-T ...

In this paper we present a novel methodology for identifying scholars with a Twitter account. By combining bibliometric data from Web of Science and Twitter users identified by Altmetric.com we have obtained the largest set of individual scholars matched with Twitter users made so far. Our methodology consists of a combination of matching algorithms, considering different linguistic elements of...