TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Degree Programme in Information Technology Chenyu Shi: Network Intrinsic QoE Metrics for Video Transmission Master of Science Thesis, 43 pages, 4 Appendix pages June 2013 Major subject: Communication engineering Examiner: Dmitri Moltchanov

Recent healthcare reforms have sought to increase efficiency by introducing managed care (MC) while respecting consumer preferences by admitting choice between MC and conventional care. This article proposes an institutional change designed to let German consumers choose between the two settings through directing payments from the Federal Health Fund to social health insurers (SHIs) or to speci...

Health care costs, and those for inpatient care in particular, pose a barrier to seeking health care, and cost be a major cause of indebtedness and impoverishment, particularly among the poor. The Ministry of Health in Nepal intends to initiate alternative financing schemes such as community and social health insurance schemes as a means to supplement the government health sector financing sour...

BACKGROUND The introduction of new vaccines for young children requires instruments for a rapid and timely assessment of the progressively increasing vaccination coverage. We assessed whether routine data generated by statutory health insurances (SHI) might be used to monitor vaccination coverage in young children. METHODS For 90% of the population Germany's healthcare system is premium-funde...

The context here is image segmentation because it was in this domain that spectral clustering was introduced by Shi and Malik in 2000. Meila and Shi provide a random-walk interpretation of the spectral clustering algorithm, and then use a transition probability matrix to create a model which learns to segment images based on pixel intensity (which they call “edge strength”) and “co-circularity”...

Submitted by: Hui Wu, MD, Yuan Hu, MD, PhD, Xiaoru Shi, MD, PhD, Hui Jia, MD, PhD. From the Department of Ophthalmology (Wu, Shi, Jia), First Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, China, and the Department of Pathology (Hu), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA. Address correspondence to: Prof. Hui Jia, Department of Ophthalmology, First Hospital, Jilin University, 71, Xinmin Street, ...

This paper discusses the proposals of Li and Thompson (1977), Yen (1986), and Feng (1993) in relation to the development of the Chinese copula and argues that Li and Thompson’s suggestion of a topic mechanism, Yen’s analogical change, and Feng’s phonological pause are unsatisfactory in explaining the development of the copula. It is suggested that Katz’s (1996) cognitive concept of existence in...

Authors: Yuji Hirowatari *, Hiroshi Yoshida **, Hideo Kurosawa ***, Ken-iti Doumitu***, Norio Tada ** Affiliations: * Scientific Instruments Division, TOSOH Corp., 2743-1 Hayakawa Ayase-shi, Kanagawa 252-1123, Japan. ** Department of General Medicine, Kashiwa Hospital, Jikei University School of Medicine, 163-1 Kashiwashita Kashiwa-shi, Chiba 277-8567, Japan. *** Department of Clinical Laborato...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2014.09.014 1389-1286/ 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. q This work was supported, in part, by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC) General Research Fund (610713) and The Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Fund (UIM/246). ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (D. Ren), [email protected] (S.-H.G. Chan), [email protected] (G. ...

Abstract By rejoining several fragmentary slips in the Shanghai Museum * Shi Liu wen yu Fuzi manuscript, this article seeks to adjust order of existing bamboo as well clarify meaning text. On basis, and through a comparison with transmitted texts, identities main characters “Shi Liu” “Master” manuscript are discussed. We find that words, deeds, thoughts bear certain similarities Qiu” “Confucius...