BACKGROUND A timely detection of outbreaks through surveillance is needed in order to prevent future pandemics. However, current surveillance systems may not be prepared to accomplish this goal, especially in resource limited settings. As data quality and timeliness are attributes that improve outbreak detection capacity, we assessed the effect of two interventions on such attributes in Alerta,...

Objectives: Various instruments and methods evaluate addiction to the Internet, mobile, and smartphone use. Subject-reported outcome measures, such as the smartphone addiction scale (SAS) assess such addiction. The objectives of this study were to cross-culturally adapt the SAS into Persian (SAS-Pr) and to evaluate the properties of reliability and validity in the Persian setting. Methods: The...

We have introduced fast and eeective k-way partitioning solutions for the two regimes k n and k = (n). Our contributions include a new \partitioning-speciic" net model used in constructing the Laplacian of the netlist, the use of fast Lanczos implementations to compute the d-dimensional geometric embedding eeciently, and a careful choice of geometric clustering objectives and algorithms. We bel...

The construction of R, the process encapsulating the timing information, is not as eecient as it could be. Any method for making timing veriication more eecient, such as partial order reductions, could in principle be incorporated into our current scheme. We believe that our work will be useful in applications such as asynchronous circuits and hardware software co-design, where abstract descrip...

The objective of this study was to develop a stream prioritization tool that evaluates stream reaches in terms of the potential water quality improvements that could be achieved through restoration versus practical constraints to project implementation. This study is inextricably linked to the countywide stream assessment and Reynolds study conducted prior to this project. The first two section...

Over the past years software architecture has become an important sub-field of software engineering. There has been substantial advancement in developing new technical approaches to start handling architectural design as an engineering discipline. Measurement is an essential part of any engineering discipline. Quantifying the quality attributes of the software architecture will reveal good insi...

Measuring software maintainability early in the development life cycle, especially at the design phase, may help designers to incorporate required enhancement and corrections for improving maintainability of the final software. This paper developed a multivariate linear model ‘Maintainability Estimation Model for Object-Oriented software in Design phase’ (MEMOOD), which estimates the maintainab...

Process models are used by information professionals to convey semantics about the business operations in a real-world domain that are intended to be supported by an information system. The understandability of these models is vital to them actually being used. Until now, understandability has primarily been defined as an intrinsic quality of the models themselves. In this paper we conceptualiz...