As data becomes established as part of everyday life, the ability for the average citizen to have some level of data literacy is increasingly important. This paper describes an approach to teaching data skills in schools using real life, complex, urban data sets collected as part of a smart city project. The approach is founded on the premise that young learners have the ability to work with co...

Background: Computerized preventive screening software is a cost effective intervention tool to address non-communicable chronic diseases. Shiraz Smart Screening Software (SSSS) was developed as an innovative tool for qualified screening. It allows simultaneous smart screening of several high-burden chronic diseases and supports reminder notification functionality. The extent in which SSSS affe...

Author details Medicine Service and Center for Surgical Medical Acute care Research and Transitions (C-SMART), Birmingham VA Medical Center, 700 South 19th Street, Birmingham 35233, AL, USA. Department of Medicine at School of Medicine, University of Alabama, 1670 University Boulevard, Birmingham 35233, AL, USA. Division of Epidemiology at School of Public Health, University of Alabama, 1665 Un...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Data Mining Approach to Estimate the Duration of Drug Therapy from Longitudinal Electronic Medical Records Olga Montvida, Ognjen Arandjelović, Edward Reiner and Sanjoy K. Paul Clinical Trials and Biostatistics Unit, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia School of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Faculty of Health, Quee...

Today, typical classrooms are still equipped with blackboards, chalk and sometimes overhead projectors. Technology-enriched rooms can often only be found in school libraries or computer pools where students can research topics on the WWW or use other specific computer applications. In this paper, we present an educational game called “Parcours”, developed for the interactive SMART table. This c...

In developing countries, whereas the urban bus network is a major part of public transportation system, it is necessary to try to find the best design and routing for bus network. Optimum design of school bus routes is very important. Non-optimal solutions for this problem may increase traveling time, fuel consumption, and depreciation rate of the fleet. A new bus routing problem is presented i...

Many school districts with centralized choice adopt strategyproof assignment mechanisms to relieve applicants of the need strategize on basis beliefs about their own admissions chances. This paper shows that chances shape outcomes even when mechanism is by influencing way search for schools, and “smart matching platforms” provide live feedback help more effectively. Motivated a model in which eng...