The National Immunization Program (NIP) begun in 1962 has considerably reduced the infectious disease burden in Cuba over the years, especially among children. The Ministry of Public Health estimates that some 560,000 children would have contracted these diseases, some with fatal outcomes, had it not been for the aggressive vaccination strategy begun 45 years ago and developed since then.

Privacy preserving record linkage (PPRL) is the process of integrating data across multiple heterogeneous data sources without compromising their privacy. While many techniques have been developed for PPRL, there has not been, up to now, a universally accepted method providing both performance and quality of results in all cases. To this end, we present PRIVATEER, a toolkit which aims at enabli...

Background: Final exam is one of evaluation methods of students. We can utilize indexes such as difficulty index and discrimination index in order to analyze each test questions or to determine questions taxonomy. However, these methods have inter- testing look and do not consider the relationship between various tests results. Inter correlation between final exam score and the average indirect...

INTRODUCTION Homogeneity of sample achieved by adequate mixing of the blood sample is the key to the quality of analytical results. Immediate mixing of the sample upon blood collection insures that the anticoagulant in the specimen container has fully dissolved with the blood, thus maintaining not only the effective anticoagulant-to-blood ratio but also providing a specimen free from any blood ...

PROBLEM There has been very little study done on tobacco use and cessation among the adolescent Medicaid population. Study objectives included determining the prevalence of tobacco use among adolescents enrolled in Medicaid, and identifying subgroups within this population. METHODS To determine tobacco use among adolescents enrolled in the Wisconsin Medicaid program, we analyzed data from a m...

Abs t rac t . Our intent in this paper is to present a denotational model that supports both data and concurrency description. Data can be pure (concurrency free data such as literals) or processes. Concurrency is supported through processes that may communicate data and thus possibly processes through channels. Processes are thus sa~d:higher order communicating processes. Functions axe conside...

We present recent extensions to METRICS [10] infrastructure that allow optimization of design processes at the flow level, rather than only at the individual tool level. As previously reported, METRICS infrastructure allows automatic recording of design and process information. Our extensions include (i) the collection of design flow information for use in flow optimization, and (ii) integratio...