Despite the global efforts in research, training, and control over the years, tropical diseases remain a major cause of ill-health in poor populations. An estimated 2.7 billion people living on less than US$2 per day, in both rural and impoverished urban areas of low-income countries, are affected [1,2]. Thirteen neglected tropical diseases alone account for 534,000 deaths each year and the los...

Mobility modeling is an essential component of wireless and mobile networking research. It assists planning, developing and evaluating protocols and mobile systems. A simulated mobile world provides flexibility for constructing scenarios that closely resemble the real world. Our proposed mobility model emphasizes humans’ social roles when making movement decisions. Our model, the Agenda Driven ...

“As the information age rolls forward, our businesses, markets and societies are being transformed into adaptive, connected networks. The Internet of today only hints at the ubiquitous communication infrastructure of tomorrow. The construction of this brave new world requires a new kind of architecture, focused on digital structures of information and software rather than physical structures of...

This paper unveils and motivates an ambitious programme of hidden algebraic research in software engineering, beginning with our general goals, continuing with an overview of results, and including some future plans. Selected literature on concurrency and the object paradigm is reviewed, and a new perspective on nondeter-minism is developed. The main contribution is powerful hidden coinduction ...

Influenza is a serious health problem worldwide. It is important to reduce morbidity and mortality from annual influenza epidemics and to prepare for the next influenza pandemic. During the influenza epidemics every year, an estimated half a million people worldwide die. In 2001, only 250 million vaccine doses were used globally, whereas the people at greatest risk of dying from influenza, thos...

In June 2005, the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Research Institute began the important task on behalf of the ACCP to articulate a research agenda. In this context, the ACCP research agenda is meant to define and describe those broad research domains and priority research themes that the ACCP advocates should be pursued through the Research Institute, governmental agencies, or oth...

Recent work in the area of probabilistic user simulation for training statistical dialogue managers has investigated a new agenda-based user model and presented preliminary experiments with a handcrafted model parameter set. Training the model on dialogue data is an important next step, but non-trivial since the user agenda states are not observable in data and the space of possible states and ...

This article reports the findings of the multistage agenda-setting process of four Israeli elections. In the first stage, agenda building, it is demonstrated that there is a close association between real-world indicators and media agenda. In the second stage, agenda setting, it was found that the level of television coverage of issues influences the proportion of surveys’ respondents naming th...