BACKGROUND To reduce the number of non-geocoded cases researchers and organizations sometimes include cases geocoded to postal code centroids along with cases geocoded with the greater precision of a full street address. Some analysts then use the postal code to assign information to the cases from finer-level geographies such as a census tract. Assignment is commonly completed using either a p...

BACKGROUND Missing data may bias the results of clinical trials and other studies. This study describes the response rate, questionnaire responses and financial costs associated with offering participants from a multilingual population the option to complete questionnaires over the telephone. METHODS DESIGN Before and after study of two methods of questionnaire completion. PARTICIPANTS A...

OBJECTIVES To compare 3 communication modes (postal, fax, and e-mail) in a rotavirus vaccine physician survey. METHODS We used 3 communication modes to distribute a survey to physicians listed in the membership directory of the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The directory listed 1391 members; however, 404 were deemed ineligible on the basis of their listing as a specia...

Usaha budidaya ayam broiler merupakan sektor peternakan yang paling efisien untuk memenuhi kebutuhan daging masyarakat. Dari tahun ke tahun, populasi mengalami peningkatan. Sedangkan pertambahan penduduk di Indonesia menyebabkan semakin sempitnya lahan beternak, sehingga diperlukan inovasi perkandangan wilayah terbatas, namun tidak menurunkan produktifitas ayam. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan ...

J. Villavicencio,1,* I. Maldonado,2 E. Cota,3,† and G. Platero4,‡ 1Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Apartado Postal 1880, 22800 Ensenada, Baja California, México 2Avenida Del Fresno 188, Código Postal 22819, Ensenada, B.C., México 3Centro de Nanociencias y Nanotecnologı́a, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 356, 22860 Ensenada, B.C., México 4In...

In this paper we show how a POS-tagger can be successfully adapted to a real world information retrieval system capable of extracting postal addresses from the Internet. We develop a particular tag-set for this system. Then we present and discuss the results acquired with the developed postal address tag-set. We conclude the paper by presenting a short description of the final IR system for Web...

Jeong-Hyun Park et al. 405 ABSTRACT⎯ In this letter, we suggest a postal RFID application model and system architecture that can be used for real-time trace and tracking system implementation of parcel processing and pallet management. This letter also shows the tag recognition performance of parcels and pallets by speed and mounting tag materials such as cans, water, and paper using an impleme...

The talk presents two optimization problems within the part of a postal logistics network where collection takes place. First, the optimization of collection tours and, second, the allocation of pickup locations to sorting terminals. Both problems consider not only service time windows at customer locations and at terminals but also complex sorting capacities at the sorting terminals.