While Congress has actually taken little action on health care reform, there has been no shortage of discussion on Capitol Hill. This year alone Congress has considered more than 100 bills on health care that range from two pages to more than 200 pages. In addition, the Bush administration released a 94-page outline of its health care reform program. President-elect Bill Clinton also has a heal...

chieving Quality in Cardiovascular Imaging roceedings From the American College of Cardiology–Duke University edical Center Think Tank on Quality in Cardiovascular Imaging eveloped in Collaboration With the Cardiovascular Imaging Collaborative uality Work Group, American College of Radiology, American Heart Association, merican Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology...

The construction of university education think tanks using the interactive service platform enables sharing research resources, encourages cross-disciplinary collaboration, and fosters innovation in education. It also helps to build a stronger relationship between academia industry by enabling practitioners participate activities. Internet Things (IoT) can be used collect analyze data from vari...

Within the climate countermovement, neoliberal think tanks have played a predominant role in both United States and Europe. There are links between obstructionism ideologies such as conservatism extreme right; androcentrism, patriarchal worldviews industrial masculinities, whiteness xenosceptic ideologies. This research takes case study Dutch tank CLINTEL, which, despite having been founded 201...

Dorothy J. Dankel1,2,3*, Kari Stange4, and Kåre Nolde Nielsen5 Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, PO Box 7805, 5020 Bergen, Norway Pelagic Department, Institute of Marine Research, PO Box 1870 Nordnes, 5817 Bergen, Norway Nordic Marine Think Tank, Ved Lunden 19, 4300 Holbæk, Denmark Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, Postbus 8130, 6700...

This is a collaborative submission from a group of academics based in the UK with expertise in information technology law and related areas. The preparation of this response has been funded by the Information Technology Think Tank, which is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by the SCRIPT/AHRC Centre for Research in Intellectual Property and Technology, University of ...

This paper proposes the adaptation of Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) to the multiple kernel case (MK-SVDD), based on SimpleMKL. It also introduces a variant called Slim-MK-SVDD that is able to produce a tighter frontier around the data. For the sake of comparison, the equivalent methods are also developed for One-Class SVM, known to be very similar to SVDD for certain shapes of kernels....