In parliaments elected by proportional systems the seats are allocated to the political parties roughly proportionally to the shares of votes for the party lists obtained in elections. Assuming that members of the parliament representing the same party are voting together, it has sense to require that distribution of the influence of the parties in parliamentary decision making is proportional ...

BACKGROUND Among providers who serve low-income and uninsured women, resistance to extending the cervical cancer screening interval following normal Pap and co-test results has been documented. Our objective was to examine provider characteristics and beliefs associated with guideline-consistent screening interval recommendations. METHOD We collected cross-sectional survey data between 2009 a...

Background: Safety of contractors is one of the key safety challenges at construction. Safety training, as an essential prerequisite for achieving safety qualification certificates by contractors, could decrease accident rates in the construction. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of training construction contractors in safety issues in minimizing occupational accidents in a five-ye...

Professor Martin Smith, Head of Surgery at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, put it to (topic presenter) Williams that he was ‘right now sitting with two letters on my desk insisting we withdraw services because of resource constraints’. ‘We’re suffering because we never close our doors (to patients). What about a clinician withdrawing services to achieve better patient care?’ he asked. Williams...

We present a flexible framework for implementing reasoning with uncertainty: Semistructured Probabilistic Databases. This framework bridges the gap between the process of obtaining probabilistic information from data and its use in AI applications by providing the facilities to store and query diverse and complex probabilistic data.

In parliaments elected by proportional systems the seats are allocated to the political parties roughly proportionally to the shares of votes for the party lists obtained in elections. Assuming that members of the parliament representing the same party are voting together, it has sense to require that distribution of the influence of the parties in parliamentary decision making is proportional ...

In 1999 the directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council was enacted, providing legal requirements for a common introduction of electronic signatures in Europe. So far the signature market has failed miserably. Mobile electronic signatures are often seen as a potential and promising way to provide market acceptance for electronic signatures. This paper builds upon an infra...

The introduction of electronic medical records (EMRs) enabled the access of unprecedented volumes of clinical data, both in structured and unstructured formats. A significant amount of this clinical data is expressed within the narrative portion of the EMRs, requiring natural language processing techniques to unlock the medical knowledge referred to by physicians. This knowledge, derived from t...

Qualified residue difference sets of power n are known to exist for n = 2, 4, 6, as do similar sets that include the zero element, while both classes of set are known to be nonexistent for n = 8 and n = 10. Both classes of set are proved nonexistent for n = 12.

The ML type system was originally introduced as a means of identifying a class of terms in a simple untyped language, often referred to as core-ML, whose evaluation could be guaranteed not to “go wrong”. In subsequent work, the terms of core-ML have also been viewed as a ‘convenient shorthand’ for programs in typed languages. Notable examples include studies of ML polymorphism and investigation...