Motivated by the need to meaningfully implement the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) definition of health care disparity, this paper proposes statistical frameworks that lay out explicitly the needed causal assumptions for defining disparity measures. Our key emphasis is that a scientifically defensible disparity measure must take into account the direction of the causal relationship between all...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of occupational silica exposure on pulmonary function. DESIGN Epidemiologic evaluation based on employee interview, plant walk-through, and information abstracted from company medical records, employment records, and industrial hygiene measurements. PARTICIPANTS Drawn from 1,072 current and former hourly wage workers employed before January 1, 1986. Thi...

This paper introduces a numerical method for region of attraction (ROA) estimation the adaptive control system in polynomial form. A classical controller with sigma modification on suppressing wing rock motion is revisited. Using nonlinear analysis technique based sum squares optimization, ROA origin computed respect to potential measurement error. The obtained result gives solid guarantee allo...

In this contribution, we propose a near-lossless compression algorithm for Color Filter Arrays (CFA) images. It allows higher compression ratio than any strictly lossless algorithm for the price of some small and controllable error. In our approach a structural transformation is applied first in order to pack the pixels of the same color in a structure appropriate for the subsequent compression...

A priority queue, a container data structure equipped with the operations insert and delete-minimum, can re-order its input in various ways, depending both on the input and on the sequence of operations used. If a given input σ can produce a particular output τ then (σ, τ) is said to be an allowable pair. It is shown that allowable pairs on a fixed multiset are in one-to-one correspondence with...

.........................................................................................................................................................................1 Roadside Drainage Design for Channel Stability ..........................................................................................................2 Allowable Velocity and Shear Stress.......................................

In this paper a general formulation for finding the maximum allowable dynamic load (MADL) of flexible link mobile manipulators is presented. The main constraints used for the algorithm presented are the actuator torque capacity and the limited error bound for the end-effector during motion on the given trajectory. The precision constraint is taken into account with two boundary lines in plane w...