It is clearly important for businesses and organizations to have accurate measures of the rate of return on investments (ROIs) to guide their investment decisions. In health care, the demographic trends, explosion in high-cost technology, and changing health care system have focused attention on both the costs and the effectiveness of health care services. Total health care costs in the United ...

As a powerful cryptanalysis tool, the method of return-map attacks can be used to extract secret messages masked by chaos in secure communication schemes. Recently, a simple defensive mechanism was presented to enhance the security of chaotic parameter modulation schemes against return-map attacks. Two techniques are combined in the proposed defensive mechanism: multistep parameter modulation a...

Similarly priced stocks move together. Stocks that undergo splits experience an increase in comovement with low-priced stocks and a decrease in their comovement with highpriced stocks. Price-based comovement is not explained by economic fundamentals, firm size, or changes in liquidity or information diffusion. The shift in comovement following splits is greater for large stocks, high-priced sto...

Error-return plots show the rate of error (misunderstanding) against the rate of nonreturn (non-understanding) for Natural Language Processing systems. They are a useful visual tool for judging system performance when other measures such as recall/precision and detection-error tradeoff are less informative, specifically when a system is judged on the correctness of its responses, but may elect ...

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are, however, generally lacking. For purposes of this presentation, 113 selected instances of anomalous pulmonary venous return encountered at Brooke General Hospital, Walter Reed General Hospital, and the Registry of Cardiovascular Pathology of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology have been reviewed and correlated with related material from the literature. To obtain completeness, tempered w...

A sample return mission, as the name suggests, involves sampling some interesting feature of an environment and returning this to some home base. Research in this area is overwhelmingly geared towards space exploration. This is due to the fact that planetary sampling can provide key information for understanding the solar system evolution and addressing the questions such as habitability and pr...

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