Commentary: putting mental health services research on the map

Putting health policy and systems research on the map.

Editorials 797 For four decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) has helped to pioneer the development of the field of health policy and systems research (HPSR). In 1974, WHO Director-General Halfdan Mahler, recognizing the importance of research on the development of sustainable health-care delivery systems, called for an emphasis on health services and systems research. 1 Two years later,...

Putting Location-Based Services on the Map

Location-based services for users on the move provide a convenient means of filtering information based on current geographical position. However users also often want to retrieve or capture information associated with past or future locations. We show how new technologies for interactive paper can be used to augment conventional paper maps with location-based services using a combination of us...

Opportunities in mental health services research.

Putting MAP Back on the Map

Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) are popular models in computer vision for solving labeling problems such as image denoising. This paper tackles the rarely addressed but important problem of learning the full form of the potential functions of pairwise CRFs. We examine two popular learning techniques, maximum likelihood estimation and maximum margin training. The main focus of the paper is on m...

Cat-Map: putting cataract on the map

Lens opacities, or cataract(s), may be inherited as a classic Mendelian disorder usually with early-onset or, more commonly, acquired with age as a multi-factorial or complex trait. Many genetic forms of cataract have been described in mice and other animal models. Considerable progress has been made in mapping and identifying the genes and mutations responsible for inherited forms of cataract,...