A comparison of different treatment strategies does not always result in determining the best one for all patients, one needs to study subgroups of patients with significant difference in efficiency between treatment strategies. To solve this problem an approach to subgroups generation is proposed, where data are described in terms of a pattern structure and pattern concepts stay for patient su...

With the passage of the Heath Care Reform Bill into law in March 2010, many investors have expressed interest in the impact that the new legislation will have on the health care sector. The impact of the new law is significant to the U.S. economy as overall health spending currently represents about 17 percent of the U.S. GDP and is projected to increase to about 19 percent by 2019. The Congres...

Fixpoints of Galois connections induced by object-attribute data tables represent important patterns that can be found in relational data. Such patterns are used in several data mining disciplines including formal concept analysis, frequent itemset and association rule mining, and Boolean factor analysis. In this paper we propose efficient algorithm for listing all fixpoints of Galois connectio...

The metrics suite for object-oriented design put forward by Chidamber and Kemerer [8] is partly evaluated by applying principles of measurement theory. Using the object coupling measure (CBO) as an example, it is shown that failing to establish a sound empirical relation system can lead to deficiencies of software metrics. Similarly, for the object-oriented cohesion measure (LCOM) it is pointed...

Various object-oriented (OO) coupling metrics have been proposed for capturing the level of class coupling in object-oriented systems. Since product complexity plays a major role in determining the quality of software, metrics developed to characterize internal attributes such as coupling need to be validated to determine the usefulness of the measures. In this paper, we present an analysis of ...

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Glutamic Semialdehyde, Synthesis, Reactivity, Glutamic Acid, Derivatives Glutamic-1-semialdehyde which is discussed to be involved in the early steps of chlorophyll biosynthesis, has been synthesized from glutamic acid by reduction of several N-protected carboxylic acid derivatives like the N-CBO-glutamic acid-1-dimethyl amide or methylanilide, the pyroglutamic acid imidazolide and the acid chl...

A type-I (“spike”) conduction-band offset (CBO) greater than a few tenths of an eV at the n/p interface of a solar cell can lead to significant distortion of the current-voltage (J-V) curve. Such distortion has been observed in CdS/CIS cells, low-gallium CdS/CIGS cells, and CIGS cells with alternative windows that increase the CBO. The basic feature is reduced current collection in forward bias...

In response to your request, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has conducted a long-term analysis of your proposal to substantially change federal payments under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, eliminate the subsidies to be provided through new insurance exchanges under last year’s major health care legislation, leave Social Security as it would be under current law, and set paths for a...

In this document, the Congressional Budget Office highlights some of the key aspects of the methodology it used to estimate the budgetary effects of replacing the Department of Defense’s TRICARE health benefit with private insurance—Option 2 in the report titled Approaches to Changing Military Health Care.1 Because of the complexity of Option 2, estimates of its budgetary effects are subject to...