The vast majority of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) members in the United States are white, and only a few studies have investigated the program's effectiveness for ethnic minorities. Project MATCH, a multisite research study aimed at developing guidelines for assigning alcoholics to appropriate treatment approaches, also assessed AA effectiveness for minority clients. Some differences in AA attenda...

Describing the workings of a specially written caching algorithm unofficially called Top40 and comparing it to two more common algorithms LRU (Least Recently Used) and LFU (Least Frequently Used) this report tries to show the effectiveness of Top40 algorithm in a media streaming environment. Simulations where done using real data. These simulations show the effectiveness of the Top40 algorithm ...

A group memory of a project is an information space storing the documents produced and exchanged by members of the group, which may include the electronic discussions that took place during the life of the project. Accessing the information in the group memory using a traditional text search method is not always effective as the relationship between the documents and emails (for example the con...

BACKGROUND Type 2 diabetes is an important preventable disease and a growing public health problem. Based on information provided by clinical trials, we know that Type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed by lifestyle intervention. In view of translating the findings of diabetes prevention research into real-life it is necessary to carry out community-based evaluations so as to learn about th...

The paper analyzes characteristics and investment risk of water conservancy project. Based on support vector machine (SVM), the paper explores water conservancy project investment risk evaluation method, establishes the SVM investment risk evaluation mode. The particle swarm optimization algorithm is employed to analyze data efficiently. Detailed empirical results shows effectiveness of the pro...

Document images produced by scanner or digital camera, usually suffer from geometric and photometric distortions. Both of them deteriorate the performance of OCR systems. In this paper, we present a novel method to compensate for undesirable geometric distortions aiming to improve OCR results. Our methodology is based on finding text lines by dynamic local connectivity map and then applying a l...

This document gives a proposal for the project we are going to do. The main objective of this project is to investigate and refine techniques used to guide the genetic programming (GP) process, hence to extend the power of GP for multi-class (object) classification tasks, in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, and the comprehensibility of program classifiers, comparing with conventional GP appr...

Despite the increased popularity of contracting-out of health services in developing countries, its effectiveness on overall health system performance is not yet conclusive. Except for substantial evidence of contracting-out's positive effect on access to health services and some evidence on improved equity in access, there is little evidence of contracting-out's impact on quality and efficienc...

Impact evaluation is an indispensable tool to assess whether a program is achieving its objective, how the beneficiaries’ situation changed as a result of the program and what the situation would have been without the program. Moreover, if an impact evaluation is carried out at an intermediate stage of project execution, very important lessons can be learned on how the program design and/or the...

Total Dental Access (TDA) is the teledentistry project within the Department of Defense. This project enables referring dentists from the US Armed Forces to consult with specialists on the status of a patient. TDA focuses on three areas of dentistry: patient care, continuing education and dentist-laboratory communications. One of the goals of this project is to increase patient access to qualit...