We discuss the possibilities for the direct detection of neutralino dark matter via elastic scattering in variants of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM) with non-universal supersymmetry-breaking contributions to the Higgs masses, which may be either equal (NUHM1) or independent (NUHM2). We compare the ranges found in the NUHM1 and NUHM2 with that found in the MSSM...

In practical applications of pattern recognition, there are often different features extracted from raw data which needs recognizing. Methods of combining multiple classifiers with different features are viewed as a general problem in various application areas of pattern recognition. In this paper, a systematic investigation has been made and possible solutions are classified into three framewo...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relation between male and female medical leadership. DESIGN Cross sectional study on predictive factors for female medical leadership with data on sex, age, specialty, and occupational status of Norwegian physicians. SETTING Oslo, Norway. SUBJECTS 13 844 non-retired Norwegian physicians. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Medical leaders, defined as physicians holding a leadin...

Cognitive load theory is intended to provide instructional strategies derived from experimental, cognitive load effects. Each effect is based on our knowledge of human cognitive architecture, primarily the limited capacity and duration of a human working memory. These limitations are ameliorated by changes in long-term memory associated with learning. Initially, cognitive load theory's view of ...

In France, in the private sector as in the public sector, performance-based management tends to become a norm. Performance-based management is supposed to improve service quality, productivity and efficiency, transparency of allotted means and achieved results, and to better focus the activity of employees and of the whole organization. This text reports a study conducted for the French Ministr...

The objective of this study was to assess dental students' attitudes toward underserved populations across their four years of dental school. Students at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of the University of Southern California were invited to take part in the study. Participating students completed a questionnaire on their attitudes toward the underserved at three time points: 1) during o...

In this paper an improved method of design of low sensitivity multiplierless elliptic IIR digital filters is proposed. The design technique is based on the sensitivity analysis and a selection of proper allpass sections. The allpass sections used to realize the allpass structures are with minimized sensitivities. Using the symbolic analysis, the expressions for phase sensitivities to multiplier...

This paper aims to investigate the performance of a system consisting of plethysmographic sensors used to measure the human pulse (or heart rate), and ZigBee wireless networks used to collect the data in view of processing and storing. A demo system build around a MICROCHIP development kit (PICDEM Z) is described. Some conclusion derived on the basis of the observations obtained during the impl...

new technologies. The range of applications was quite wide. Don Pelz and Eileen Trzcinski (University of Michigan) looked at the implementation of microcomputers for administrative uses in social service agencies ; Rita Bush (AT&T) examined computerized technologies in the telephone company; Karol Kerns talked about developing electronic &dquo;smart cards&dquo; to control the distribution of be...

Context aware services need context of a certain quality to provide their services. The quality of context can be described using the Quality of Context (QoC) concept. There are five parameters, or dimensions, to describe the QoC: precision, freshness, temporal resolution, spatial resolution and probability of correctness. There is a relation between QoC and privacy sensitivity, because if the ...