This article examines the nature of the gap in household telephone penetration among Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics. By analyzing historic and current penetration levels of the radio, television, and telephone, it suggests that most information technology gaps are amalgamations of smaller socioeconomic trends and can be discerned and reduced only with careful historical analysis of both technolo...

OBJECTIVE The research identified the skills, if any, that health preprofessional students wished to develop after receiving feedback on skill gaps as well as any strategies they intended to use to address these gaps. METHODS A qualitative approach was used to elicit students' reflections on building health information literacy skills. First, the students took the Research Readiness Self-Asse...

This study investigates cross-border collaboration between beef organisations in Australia and Singapore. It aims to identify factors impacting trust and technology diffusion by gauging gaps between expected importance and perceived performance rating of the factors. The research presents results of a survey comprising 69 beef organisations from Australia and Singapore. The research identifies ...

Canopy Gaps in an Upper Mississippi River floodplain plot were measured as part of a songbird nest-site selectivity study. Two methods of measuring floodplain forest canopy gaps were compared. One method used a ground crew to sweep the plot and record spatial and botanical information of canopy gaps > 10 meters in diameter. The second method used 1:15,000 scale color infrared stereoscopic aeria...

Given a lattice L with the i-th successive minimum λi, its i-th gap λi λ1 often provides useful information for analyzing the security of cryptographic scheme related to L. This paper concerns short vectors for lattices with gaps. In the first part, a λ2-gap estimation of LWE lattices with cryptographic significance is given. For some γ′, a better reduction from BDDγ′ to uSV Pγ is obtained in t...

    Introduction: In the last few decades, a lot of monte carlo codes have been introduced for medical applications. For close - to - surface tumors, the surface of the skin can be used to increase the surface dose so that all or part of the bunch area can fall into bolus, thereby increasing the dose of the skin. The air gaps between bolus and skin can affect the dose of...

We propose a regression-based hot-deck multiple imputation method for gaps of missing data in longitudinal studies, where subjects experience a recurrent event process and a terminal event. Examples are repeated asthma episodes and death, or menstrual periods and menopause, as in our motivating application. Research interest concerns the onset time of a marker event, defined by the recurrent ev...

Information Overloadrq  is not a new term but with the massive development in technology which enables anytime, anywhere, easy and unlimited access; participation & publishing of information has consequently escalated its impact. Assisting userslq    informational searches with reduced reading surfing time by extracting and evaluating accurate, authentic & relevant information are the primary c...

BACKGROUND Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are at risk for drug-related problems (DRPs), especially on hospital admission. OBJECTIVE To identify and characterize the DRPs experienced by patients with ESRD on admission and investigate how these DRPs could be related to gaps in medication information transfer. METHODS Patients with ESRD admitted to the hospital were prospectively...