Due to the global expansion of Company A's supply chain network, it is becoming more vulnerable to many disruptions. These disruptions often incur additional costs; and require time to respond to and recover from these disruptions. The base paper supply chain was identified as the most vulnerable area of the Company A Jurong and South & Southeast Asia Cluster supply chain; and a multi-stage sup...

Seeking to enhance communication systems by adding expressive cues. A s the business environment has become distributed, fast-paced, and dependent on information and communication technology, email continues to be an effective and efficient communication medium for interpersonal and interorganizational communication. Despite the expected prolific usage, email remains underutilized within many o...

In models that define probabilities via energies, maximum likelihood learning typically involves using Markov Chain Monte Carlo to sample from the model’s distribution. If the Markov chain is started at the data distribution, learning often works well even if the chain is only run for a few time steps [3]. But if the data distribution contains modes separated by regions of very low density, bri...

We approach the problem of adaptively combining the predictions of an ensemble of seasonal climate models as a Multi-task Learning (MTL) problem. Unlike the traditional MTL setting, we only have a single functional task (combining the predictions ensemble members), where we consider multiple forecast periods from the same suite of models as our multiple learning tasks. Even though the same mode...

http://ccn.aacnjournals.org Sandra Lins is the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium project coordinator at Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center in Dearborn, Mich. She coordinates all data collection and quality improvement efforts related to percutaneous coronary interventions. Denise Guffey is the former manager of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Oakwood Hospital ...

P urdue University researchers have developed a way to finely control ultrafast laser pulses’ spectral properties to create more powerful optical-communications technologies. The laser pulses last a trillionth to a quadrillionth of a second—a picosecond to a femtosecond. In essence, each pulse could serve as a data bit in future high-speed optical-communications systems, explained Purdue profes...

I n this issue of Diabetes Care, Massing et al. (1) present the results of their review of Medicare claims from 13,660 diabetic patients who received regular outpatient care from a primary care physician (n ϭ 1,749). During a 24-month period, 31% received no lipid profile, 24% received only one lipid profile, and 45% of the diabetic patients received two or more lipid profiles. Further analysis...

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Introduction: Mobile personal health are a rapidly growing area of health information technology. Mobile personal health users are able to manage their own health data and communicate with doctors in order to improve healthcare quality and efficiency. In recent years, information and communication technologies improvements, along with mobile Internet, offering anywhere and anytime connectivity,...

We developed a program that automatically creates a crowd sourced tourist guide for a selected city. This tourist guide is to be based on the data of Flickr. To do this, the program analyses the meta data of geotagged photos from the image hosting platform Flickr. These geotagged photos are clustered using DBSCAN to find the places with the highest density of photos. These high density places s...