A methodology that combines text mining, statistical process control and a balanced scorecard eliminated inaccurate manual claim coding and a significantly reduced the time required to identify root causes of field failures. As a result annual warranty claim costs have decreased, product reliability has increased, and customer satisfaction has improved.

Many commentators today lament the politicization of bioethics, but some suggest distinguishing among different kinds of politicization. This essay pursues that idea with reference to three traditions of political thought: liberalism, communitarianism, and republicanism. After briefly discussing the concept of politicization itself, the essay examines how each of these political traditions mani...

THERE IS LITTLE DISAGREEMENT about the directions public health reform should take — greater emphasis on primary and preventive care, workforce reform, community participation, improved governance and better application of information technology. It is clear that there are gaps and duplication in clinical services that reflect outdated population patterns and jealously guarded clinical territor...

Ways of Being and Time 12-22-09

We shall survey and classify various ways of approximation of the true probability distribution by a discrete distribution concentrated in a finite number of atoms, called scenarios, which occur with preassigned probabilities. Resistance of the numerical results with respect to the choice of scenarios and/or of their probabilities and also the relation between results obtained for the selected ...