• Ontario’s health care system will saddle the province with a $1.19-trillion tax burden due to increased costs over the next 50 years, the C.D. Howe Institute reported. The think tank urged the province to control costs by switching from an agebased drug plan to an income-based one, and expanding the role of less costly health workers, such as nurses and pharmacists. • Two violent attacks on h...

About half of the world's population lacks access to basic sanitation facilities ðWatkins 2006; UNICEF/WHO 2012Þ. Lacking toilets, billions of people across the world respond to nature's call in fields, ditches, rivers, and road-sides—a practice called " open defecation, " which potentially is a major contributor to the global burden of diseases ðPrüss-Üstün and Corvalán 2006; Prüss-Üstün et al...

in this paper we consider the european continuous installment call option. then  its linear complementarity formulation is given. writing the resulted problem in variational form, we prove the existence and uniqueness of its weak solution. finally finite element method is applied to price the european continuous installment call option.

Many service users and professionals are not satisfied with current hospital care: they call for a safer and more friendly environment, with greater freedom and less social distance between staff and patients. Phase 2 of the Alternatives Study was designed to improve the evidence base for such residential alternatives. Findings suggest that offering a more acceptable environment increases satis...

Communications processing is an important part of distributed language systems with facilities such as RPC (remote procedure call) and RMI (remote method invocation). For security, messages may require cryptographic operations in addition to ordinary marshaling. We investigate a method for wrapping communications processing around an entity with secure local communication, such as a single mach...

The DISCUS framework is a generic reusable software architecture that provides high levels of interoperability between Imagery related applications. DISCUS is also a working government furnished testbed that integrates commercial and government software together including imagery applications, mensuration, office automation, mapping, and databases. In the DISCUS experiment we have shown that it...

The MOVE (AC 343) project is dedicated to combine voice and data based services in a single environment. Future personal communicators, i.e. Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) with wireless communication facilities, will allow harmonisation of voice and Internet services using a single access network such as UMTS. The MOVE middleware and its application programming interface (API) for this kind ...

UNLABELLED VariantAnnotation is an R / Bioconductor package for the exploration and annotation of genetic variants. Capabilities exist for reading, writing and filtering variant call format (VCF) files. VariantAnnotation allows ready access to additional R / Bioconductor facilities for advanced statistical analysis, data transformation, visualization and integration with diverse genomic resourc...

the purpose of this study was to measure reading comprehension strategies when tell me more and sweet english software were utilized to enhance the traditional reading comprehension practice. the study focused on evaluation of four strategies (i.e., scanning, skimming, inferencing and headline guessing) in reading comprehension in three different classes at an english language institute in iran...