Policymakers, advocates, and scholars frequently make claims about how the American public sees ownership affecting the delivery of medical care. In this paper we provide a comprehensive assessment of how Americans think about nonprofit and for-profit ownership. We summarize findings from surveys fielded between 1985 and 2000 and supplement them with findings from a new survey. Most Americans b...

Strategic Information System Planning (SISP) is a well-established practice for securing the effective implementation of innovative information systems and technology. There is little in the literature about how vision is related to SISP so this study examines practice in the UK higher education sector where vision statements are regularly constructed in relation to planning cycles. The nature ...

Computing arrangements of curves is a fundamental and challenging problem in computational geometry as leading to many practical applications in a wide range of fields, especially in robot motion planning and computer vision. In this survey paper we present the state of the art for computing the arrangement of planar curves, considering various classes of curves, from lines to arbitrary curves.

purpose: to report and review a rare variant of duane's syndrome named synergistic divergence and its surgical results. patient and findings: a 16-year-old girl presented with left face turn and reduced vision in both eyes. best corrected vision was od: 3/10 and os: 10/10. there was severe adduction deficiency of the re with simultaneous abduction of the re in left gaze. she had xt= 35 in ...

This paper presents a vision-based collision avoidance technique for small and Miniature Air Vehicles (MAVs) using local-level frame mapping and path planning. Using computer vision algorithms, a depth map that represents the range and bearing to obstacles is obtained. Based on the depth map, we estimate the range, azimuth to, and height of obstacles using an extended Kalman Filter (EKF) that t...