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This, the fourth annual immunisation coverage report, documents trends during 2010 for a range of standard measures derived from Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) data. These include coverage at standard age milestones and for individual vaccines included on the National Immunisation Program (NIP). For the first time, coverage from other sources for adolescents and the elderly a...

This 7th annual immunisation coverage report shows data for 2013 from the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) and National Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Program Register. From July 2013, 2 new combined vaccines were included on the National Immunisation Program (NIP): Haemophilus influenzae type b-meningococcal C conjugate and measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV), the l...

This, the 2nd annual immunisation coverage report, documents trends during 2008 for a range of standard measures derived from Australian Childhood Immunisation Register data, including overall coverage at standard age milestones and for individual vaccines included on the National Immunisation Program (NIP). Coverage by indigenous status and mapping by smaller geographic areas as well as trends...

We study eective inference strategies for monotone trend functions in the presence of short range and long range dependence. Isotonic regression, which does not require specication of tuning parameters, is invoked to estimate the monotone trend. The problem of constructing reliable condence intervals for the trend function is addressed via the use of appropriate discrepancy statistics which ari...

ExCAPE proposes a novel approach to software design—computer augmented program engineering, in which a programmer and an automated program-synthesis tool collaborate to generate software that meets its specification. A programmer expresses her insights about the design using synthesis artifacts of different kinds such as programs that may contain ambiguities, declarative specifications of high-...

One of the long-term goals of this project is to analyze and propose energy-efficient communication techniques for underwater acoustic sensor networks. These techniques aim at consuming as less energy as possible as well as guaranteeing a minimum quality of service. In order to do so, we assume and validate some statistics of the underwater acoustic channels and derive stochastic optimal transm...

During the year 2009/2010 I was principally working on 3 different problems in collaboration with 4 different people, 3 of them working in Pisa and one in Parma. Those works led to 3 scientific papers and 1 review paper submitted during the year 2009/2010. The first work is a collaboration with Pablo Àlvarez-Caudevilla, postdoc at the center De Giorgi. We studied a problem in PDEs, about the as...