Our proposed system addresses declared needs for geoinformatic surveillance, software infrastructure, and a decision support system for spatial and spatio-temporal hotspot detection and prioritization. Hotspot means something unusual—an anomaly, aberration, outbreak, elevated cluster, critical area, etc. The declared need may be for monitoring, etiology, management, or early warning. Responsibl...

BACKGROUND Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a highly prevalent inflammatory disease with significant impacts on patient quality of life and daily productivity. Evaluating the volume of research on CRS, relative to similar chronic diseases, may provide insight into current disparities in research prioritization. METHODS A systematic review was performed using Ovid MEDLINE (R) (1970 - December 3...

safety analysis of the roads through the accident rates which is one of the widely used tools has been resulted from the direct exposure method which is based on the ratio of the vehicle-kilometers traveled and vehicle-travel time. however, due to some fundamental flaws in its theories and difficulties in gaining access to the data required such as traffic volume, distance and duration of the t...

This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested social dilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into two groups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoretically derived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental results demonstrate the importance of in-group beneficiaries over global efficiency. We find that the observed beha...

The visual system prioritizes information through a variety of mechanisms, including “attentional control settings” that specify features (e.g., colour) that are relevant to current goals. Recent work shows that these control settings may be more complex than previously thought, such that participants can monitor for independent features at different locations (Adamo, Pun, Pratt, & Ferber, 2008...

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The practice of information systems development (ISD) has changed during the past two decades from very structured approaches to agile ISD methods. However, in literature many methods available for managing requirements-related risks follow a approach ISD. Few, if any, offer solutions that prioritize requirements projects based on recognizing and patterns order mitigate these. To fill this gap ...

Test case prioritization techniques have been shown to improve regression-testing activities by increasing the rate of fault detection, thus allowing testers to fix faults earlier. The current techniques, mostly code coveragebased, treat all faults equally. We build upon this work to develop a prioritization scheme with two main goals: identifying the severe faults earlier and minimizing the co...

In its commentary on the original version of CRP5, the ISPC recognized the fundamental importance and potential of this CRP to fill a critical gap in the CGIAR research for development portfolio. The rationale remains compelling for a coordinated international research effort on water scarcity, land degradation and threats to ecosystem sustainability related to agriculture – focusing on researc...

Health research priority setting processes assist researchers and policymakers in effectively targeting research that has the greatest potential public health benefit. Many different approaches to health research prioritization exist, but there is no agreement on what might constitute best practice. Moreover, because of the many different contexts for which priorities can be set, attempting to ...