Over the past two years, we have built a diverse software environment of over 200 scientific applications for our research computing platform at Brown University. In this report, we share the policies and best practices we have developed to simplify the configuration and installation of this software environment and to improve its usability and performance. In addition, we present a reference i...

Serbia, as many countries in Eastern Europe, is in the process of reforming its health system in an effort to improve the efficiency and efficacy of health services and to achieve equal distribution of health resources. Representatives of Ministry of Health (MOH), Health Insurance Fund (HIF), and Institute of Public Health (IPH) articulated an overall health vision for the health sector in Serb...

OBJECTIVE To develop a short instrument to measure determinants of innovations that may affect its implementation. DESIGN We pooled the original data from eight empirical studies of the implementation of evidence-based innovations. The studies used a list of 60 potentially relevant determinants based on a systematic review of empirical studies and a Delphi study among implementation experts. ...

We introduce the concept of a temporal Magic Lens, a novel interaction technique that supports querying and browsing for video data. Video data is available from an increasingly number of sources, and yet analyzing and processing it is still often a manual, tedious task. A Temporal Magic Lens is an interactive tool that combines spatial and temporal components of video, creating a unified mecha...

BACKGROUND It is acknowledged that the success and uptake of eHealth improve with the involvement of users and stakeholders to make technology reflect their needs. Involving stakeholders in implementation research is thus a crucial element in developing eHealth technology. Business modeling is an approach to guide implementation research for eHealth. Stakeholders are involved in business modeli...

The main challenges for the tools which derive implementations from formal descriptions are to enhance the efficiency and facilitate the integration in various implementation contexts. We study in this paper the Estelle based implementations. Using the Estelle Development Toolset (EDT), we obtained a realistic implementation of a complex transport protocol, XTP 4.0, functionally comparable with...

This paper conducts an empirical evaluation of MPEG-7 visual part of experimentation model (XM) color descrip-tors in a challenging problem of content-based retrieval of semantic image categories. The performance of the four color descriptors provided in the current XM reference implementation, Color Layout, Color Structure, Dominant Color and Scalable Color, is compared to that of HSV autocorr...

Schools have been identified as ideal settings for health promotion (HP) among children, adolescents and school staff. Most European countries have established strategies to implement HP into their school system, however, little is known about these national strategies and how effective they have been. School HP implementation concerns processes of adoption, adaptation and operation of a comple...

Many international and national asthma guidelines are now available in large parts of the world, but they are not yet implemented appropriately. There is a gap between scientific evidence-based medicine and real clinical practice. Implementation of guidelines is highly complex. Special strategies are needed to encourage guideline-based, high-quality care. It is important to understand the conte...

Let Xα be a symmetric α-stable Lévy process with α ∈ (1, 2). We consider small ball probabilities of the following type P {‖Xα − λ f‖ < r} as r → 0, and λr → 0 or λr = c , c > 0, where ‖ · ‖ is the sup-norm and f ∈ C[0, 1] that starts at 0. We obtain the exact rate of decrease for these probabilities including constants. Using these small ball estimates, we obtain a functional LIL for Xα with a...