Charitable Organization Oversight: Rules v. Standards

Mining Fuzzy Rules in A Donor Database for Direct Marketing by a Charitable Organization

Given a donor database by a charitable organization in Hong Kong, we propose to use a new data mining technique to discover fuzzy rules for direct marketing. The discovered fuzzy rules employ linguistic terms, which are natural for human users to understand because of the affinity with the human knowledge representations, to represent the association relationships revealed in the data. The prop...

Adapting Standards: Ethical Oversight of Participant-Led Health Research

As participant-led health research increases, Effy Vayena and and John Tasioulas examine what ethical questions are raised, and what types of standards need to be developed for appropriate ethical oversight for participant-led research projects.

Rules, Standards and Geeks

Organization of Internet Standards

In this study we look at a body of standards documents in RFCs(Request For Comments) of IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). The cross references between these documents form a network. Approaches from social network analysis are deployed to assess centrality of artifacts in this network and identify cohesive subgroups and levels of cohesion. Our results demonstrate major groups centered aro...

Growth Standards and Charts; World Health Organization

.. There are a number of growth references available for children internationally but in 2006 the World health organization published growth standards for children 0 60 months. These growth standards have been adopted even by the developed countries though with some modifications. This article discusses the various aspects of growth standards including plotting of charts and their interpretation.