BACKGROUND Public Health Systems Research is an emerging field of research that is gaining importance in Canada. METHODS On October 22 and 23, 2012, public health researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers came together at the Accelerating Public Health Systems Research in Ontario: Building an Agenda think tank to develop a research agenda for the province. RESULTS This agenda included t...

The Gene Ontology (GO) initiative is a collaborative effort that uses controlled vocabularies for annotating genetic information. We here present AGENDA (Application for mining Gene Ontology Data), a novel web-based tool for accessing the GO database. AGENDA allows the user to simultaneously retrieve and compare gene lists linked to different GO terms in diverse species using batch queries, fac...

Some appliances so/d as indoor air deaners, indoor air purifiers, and personal air purifiers, purposely emit ozone, purportedly to clean the air. Manufacturers often fa/se/y c/aim that these devices eliminate bacteria, mold, and chemical contaminants from the air, and that they he/p persons WMI asthma and allergies. Advertising and sales of such devices is increasing. Staff will report on a rec...

Of course, a paper does not have to prove significant new results to have an important influence on the direction of a subject. And this is particularly apparent in regard to the paper of Hartley Rogers [1967a] based on his talk to the 1965 Tenth Logic Colloquium in Leicester, England. As Rogers states in his introduction to the paper “I shall be more concerned with presenting certain open prob...

In my research, I have proposed, built, and evaluated a declarative query processor for wireless, battery-powered sensor networks, and explored the research challenges, such as designing appropriate language abstractions and devising query optimization and execution techniques, that arise in building such a system. Each node in a sensor network is a small, radio-equipped, battery powered comput...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com us call them collectively the “liberty and equality paradigm1”are incapable of this, and the postcolonialist bellyaching that has accompanied them in recent decades do not allow such steps to be taken proudly and resolutely. The hesitancy, reluctance, and contrition that characterize the actions of Europeans are largely rooted in these approaches. W...

Many different proposals (e.g., Petri nets, Linda and other tuple-space languages, CHAM, Join calculus) for applying formal methods to distributed systems rely on two fundamental design postulates: (1) states are multisets; and (2) elementary actions can atomically fetch (or release) several state components, thus synchronizing them at the event level. However, they often miss a third feature w...

Realizing the vision of the IOM’s landmark report, Crossing the Quality Chasm, will require new knowledge to support new policy and management. This paper lays out a research agenda that must be pursued if the health care system is to bridge the quality chasm. Based on a consensus process involving leading health care researchers and authorities, the paper highlights knowledge gaps and research...

Most of the study of patterns has been restricted to the composition of "new" patterns. These authors, however, believe that the investigation of design patterns is ripe for an endeavor at an underlying formal conceptual framework. In this article we address future directions in the investigation of design patterns and stress the significance of precise specifications. We also propose our own a...