In this paper, we propose a heterogeneous committee machine for face processing including face detection and recognition. Our proposed system consists of two components, Face Detection Committee Machine (FDCM) and Face Recognition Committee Machine (FRCM), which employs three and five well-known state-of-the-art approaches respectively. We engage different methodologies to solve the face detect...

CONTEXT Although concerns continue to be raised about the diversity of the US physician workforce, there has never been a nationwide survey of both the sex and underrepresented minority (URM) composition of medical school admission committees. OBJECTIVE To document US medical school admission committee membership in several demographic domains, including sex and URM (African American, Mexican...

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Preface The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), through a subcontract with Yale New is supporting a committee appointed by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) to address statistical issues identified by the CMS and stakeholders about CMS's approach to mod-eling hospital quality based on outcomes. In the spring of 2011, with the direct support of YN-HHSC/CO...

Preface The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), through a subcontract with Yale New is supporting a committee appointed by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) to address statistical issues identified by the CMS and stakeholders about CMS's approach to mod­ eling hospital quality based on outcomes. In the spring of 2011, with the direct support of YN­ HHSC/...

according to the preamble of the framework convention for the protection of national minorities (which entered into force on february 1, 1998) minority rights are an integral part of fundamental human rights. universal level that taken on great importance in addressing the challenges of minority protection in evolving and increasingly diverse societies. so, this survey has an analytical appro...

background : organizational features can affect how employers view on their qwl is an important consideration for employ­ees interested in improving employees' job satisfaction. the research reported here aimed to provide the processes used to investigate and implement a pathway for tums employ­ees improving of quality of work life as an approach model. methods : a quality of work life strategi...