OBJECTIVES To identify characteristics of beneficiaries of health care over which relative weights should be derived and to estimate relative weights to be attached to health gains according to characteristics of recipients of these gains (relativities study); and to assess the feasibility of estimating a willingness-to-pay (WTP)-based value of a quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) (valuation stu...

The effect of ordinary and restricted selection indices on body weight at different ages changes in birth weight of Iranian Moghani sheep was studied. Traits in the aggregate genotype were birth weight (BW), body weights at 3 (BW3) and 12 months of age (BW12). Two ordinary selection indices (I1 and I2) and two restricted selection indices (R1 and R2) were constructed. BW and BW3 were included i...

This paper presents an integer programming model for dynamic channel assignment (DCA) under space and time-varying traffic demand. The algorithm minimizes the number of channels required to satisfy the traffic demand using a threshold based decision criterion on the carrier-to-interference ratio. A neighborhood based search procedure uses the most recent channel state information to perform a f...

Research into human decision-making has often sidestepped the question of search despite its importance across a wide range of domains such as search for food, mates, allies, visual targets or information. Recently, research on decisions from experience has made progress in finding out how individual characteristics shape search for information. Surprisingly little is known, however, about how ...

The CCDs on ACS may both be operated at multiple gain settings. Analysis of calibration and science data is used to establish corrections to the supported HRC GAIN=4 and WFC GAIN=2 values; relative to the default gains decreased values of e-/DN of 1.27% and 0.78% respectively are indicated. Maps of the full well depth at which saturation sets in for both HRC and WFC are provided, both cameras s...

Al~ t rKt -The paper presents results on frequencydependent tools for analysis, structure selection and design of control systems. This includes relationships between the relative gain array (RGA) and right half plane zeros, and the use of the RGA as a sensitivity measure with respect to individual element uncertainty and diagonal input uncertainty. It is also shown how frequency-dependent plot...

Results LMS presented lower frequency of genomic alterations in comparison with UPS. None of the variables were identified as independent prognostic factors, but gains at 1q21.3 were significantly associated with poor survival and showed almost significance as an independent prognostic factor (relative risk 13.8, P = 0.019). In addition, copy number profile of UPS and LMS was indistinguishable ...

This report gives an overview of multiuser detection (MD) and interference suppression (IS) techniques that have been proposed for Direct-Sequence (DS)-Code-Division Multiple-Access (CDMA). We rst indicate how these techniques can be used in a satellite CDMA system, and then give a brief overview of MD and IS techniques that have been presented in the literature. Fundamental performance gains o...