Date: August 28 Place: Room 5336 (oral), Room 6302 (poster) Organizers: Stephen Blackmore, Nina Gabarayeva & Michael Hesse Contact email address: [email protected] Purpose: The science of palynology is founded entirely upon the extraordinary organisational diversity and resistance to decay of the exine. Not surprisingly therefore, there has always been great interest in understanding how ...

We investigate the question whether semi-completeness, i.e., weak termination plus connuence, of term rewriting systems is preserved under the normalization of right-hand sides. We give a simple counterexample showing that in general this transformation neither preserves weak termination nor (local) connuence. Moreover we present two conditions which are suucient for the preservation of semi-co...

A few years ago, G. Ross Baker and five colleagues published a series of case studies under the title High Performing Healthcare Systems: Delivering Quality by Design (2008). Their goal was to investigate a handful of international and Canadian healthcare systems in order to learn about the leadership strategies, organizational processes and investments that had earned those systems the adjecti...

Nina Antoniotti, RN, MBA, PhD [Chair, SG] Richard S. Bakalar, MD [SG] Norbert Belz, MHSA RHIA [WG] Leslie Bennett, LCSW [WG] Jordana Bernard, MBA [S] Anne Burdick, MD, MPH [Vice Chair, SG] David Brennan, MSBE [SG] Sharon Cain, MD [R] Lisa Carnahan, PhD [SG, WG] Jerry Cavallerano, PhD, OD [SG] Robert Cuyler, PhD [R] Veronica Decker, APRN, BC, MBA [WG] Kenneth Drude, PhD [R] Sara Gibson, MD [R] B...

Title: Effect of Standardized Training on the Reliability of the Cochrane Risk of Bias Assessment Tool: a prospective study Authors: Bruno da Costa ([email protected]) Brooke Beckett ([email protected]) Alison Diaz ([email protected]) Nina Resta ([email protected]) Bradley Johnston ([email protected]) Matthias Egger ([email protected]) Peter Jüni ([email protected]) Su...

Satellite remotely-sensed sea surface temperature (SST) and surface chlorophyll were used to estimate median phytoplankton cell size at monthly and 11 km resolution over the global ocean, 1998–2007. The temporal dynamics of median phytoplankton cell size were examined for the Pacific equatorial upwelling region and the subtropical oceans. For the equatorial upwelling region, cell size varied co...

Coastal hurricanes create tremendous environmental change and generate huge financial losses. The relative infrequency of severe coastal hurricanes implies that empirical probability estimates of the next big catastrophe will be unreliable. Here we model hurricane activity and resulting insured losses using extreme value theory and Bayesian models. The occurrence of a hurricane above a specifie...

INTRODUCTION Smoking prevalence in Russia is one of the highest in the world. It leads to significant damage to the National Health Service. The purpose of the present research was to assess the effectiveness of a qualified smoking-cessation (SC) center in Moscow, and to identify the main determinants of smoking cessation. METHODS The subjects of this study were a cohort of smokers (n=524) who ...

A model in which homebuyers make a modest approximation leads house prices to display three features present in the data but usually missing from perfectly rational models: momentum at one-year horizons, mean reversion at five-year horizons, and excess longer-term volatility relative to fundamentals. Valuing a house involves forecasting the current and future demand to live in the surrounding a...

Research Team Members of UCSF Oral AIDS Center (OAC) Director: John S. Greenspan Clinical Director: Deborah Greenspan Nina Agabian PhD Susan Buchbinder MD Alison Canchola BA, MS Yvonne G. De Souza BSc, MSc Ruth Greenblatt MD Deborah Greenspan BDS, DSc(Med) John S. Greenspan BDS, PhD, FRCPath Joan Hilton MPH, ScD Henry Lan MS, PhD Laurie MacPhail PhD, DMD George Newport PhD Dennis Osmond PhD Kim...