Numerous studies have been done to analyze hospice use among terminally ill pa tients. The recent study by Keating et al. ( 1 ) analyzed variations in hospice use among cancer patients. I applaud their efforts but wish to highlight other factors that could have been considered to make the results more comprehensive. The authors reported that the rate of hospice enrollment varied by the race of ...

Judith Weis, Ph.D. (chair) Clinton J. Andrews, Ph.D., P.E. John E. Dyksen, M.S., P.E. Raymond A. Ferrara, Ph.D. John T. Gannon, Ph.D. Robert J. Laumbach, M.D., MPH Peter B. Lederman, Ph.D., P.E. Robert J. Lippencott, Ph.D. Nancy C. Rothman, Ph.D. Tavit Najarian, Ph.D. Carolyn Bentivegna, Ph.D Anthony J. Broccoli, Ph.D. Mark G. Robson, Ph.D. David A. Vaccari, Ph.D., P.E. Richard Kropp, P.E. Lily...

PURPOSE To verify the applicability of a software in the (re)habilitation of hearing impaired children. METHODS The sample comprised 17 children with hearing impairment, ten with cochlear implants (CI) and seven with hearing aids (HA). The Software Auxiliar na Reabilitação de Distúrbios Auditivos - SARDA (Auxiliary Software for the Rehabilitation of Hearing Disorders) was used. The training p...

This report addresses re-use issues in computer-based diagnosis. It is shown that in order to obtain re-usable components it is useful to categorize the knowledge and software for a diagnosis system along two dimensions, generality and genericity. Several new contributions to diagnosis technology are presented which illustrate different re-use categories and show the benefits of improved reusab...

Presenting evidence from the social brain, we argue that neural re-use is a dynamic, socially organized process that is influenced ontogenetically and evolutionarily by the cultural transmission of mental techniques, values, and modes of thought. Anderson‟s theory should be broadened to accommodate cultural effects on the functioning of architecturally similar neural systems, and the implicatio...

Most current hardware engineering practice is deeply rooted in discrete-event modeling and synchronous design. Most current software engineering is deeply rooted in procedural abstractions. The latter says little about concurrency and temporal properties, whereas the former lacks many of modularity capabilities of modern programming languages. Actor-oriented design emphasizes concurrency and co...

Recently, a growing body of research targets authoring of content and adaptation strategies for adaptive systems. The driving force behind it is semantics-based reuse: the same adaptation strategy can be used for various domains, and vice versa. E.g., a Java course can be taught via a strategy differentiating between beginner and advanced users, or between visual versus verbal users. Whilst usi...

We present various visualizations for the Text Re-use found among texts of a collection to support answering a broad palette of research questions in the humanities. When juxtaposing all texts of a corpus in form of tuples, we propose the Text Re-use Grid as a distant reading method that emphasizes text tuples with systematic or repetitive Text Re-use. The Text Re-use Browser provides a closer ...

An approach to find the most probable English source document for the given Hindi suspicious document is presented. The approach does not involve any complex method of Machine Translation (MT) as a language normalization pre-processing step, rather it relies on standard cross-language resources available between Hindi-English and calculates the similarity using the Okapi BM25 model. We also pre...

Unlike most object oriented programming languages Timor, which has been designed to support component development, replaces the class construct with separate constructs for defining types and their implementations (which are not types). It also distinguishes between behaviourally conforming subtyping and the inclusion of behaviourally deviant interfaces in the definition of derived types. The s...