Variability is inherent in health care and is a result of many complex interactions between patients and providers, and those among providers. Physician autonomy is one aspect that causes variability. Professionals with autonomy tend to have control over conditions, processes, and procedures (Walter & Lopez, 2008) and this leads to the existence of differentiated process pathways. Providers wor...

This talk describes a recent effort on the development of a textual entailment data set. Rather than assuming a sub-component of applications like question answering and multi-document summarization, we focus on a realworld task to judge whether a natural language proposition is true or false according to a given text. I will describe the design of resource development and features of the obtai...

The Rayleigh-Sommerfeld back-propagation method is a fast and highly flexible volume reconstruction scheme for digital holographic microscopy. We present a new method for 3D localization of weakly scattering objects using this technique. A well-known aspect of classical optics (the Gouy phase shift) can be used to discriminate between objects lying on either side of the holographic image plane....

Let G be a graph. A proper vertex coloring of G is said to be a dynamic coloring if for every v ∈ V (G) of degree at least 2, the neighbors of v receive at least two different colors. The smallest integer k such that G has a dynamic k-coloring is called the dynamic chromatic number of G and is denoted by χ2(G). It was conjectured that if G is an r-regular graph, then χ2(G)−χ(G) ≤ 2. In this tal...

With recent technological advances at synchrotrons [Graber et al., J. Synchrotron Radiat. 18, 658-670 (2011)], it is feasible to rapidly collect time-resolved crystallographic data at multiple temperature settings [Schmidt et al., Acta Crystallogr. D 69, 2534-2542 (2013)], from which barriers of activation can be extracted. With the advent of fourth generation X-ray sources, new opportunities e...

High accident rate in construction is a universal problem which needs to be tackled by all parties concerned (Poon et al. 2008). Although in the last decade there was a downward trend in construction accidents in many places such as Hong Kong due to implementation of numerous safety schemes, improvement in construction accident records is still necessary (Figs. 2.1, 2.2). A previous research st...