This unique two-week elective, offered each February, is designed for fourth year medical students and residents in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and other disciplines who have an interest in public health and health policy but no advanced degree in these subjects (MPH or JD). The course combines class lectures by health policy experts and site visits in the Washington, D.C. area with a g...

This paper presents new Chinese question taxonomy respectively from approach and semantic viewpoints. According to the taxonomy, we propose a SVM classification algorithm which is based on multiple features. The experimental results show that: 1 Lexical semantic features and structural features are the guarantee of high performance of question classification; 2 The contribution of dependency re...

We have recently investigated a family of algorithms which use the underlying latent space model developed for the Generative Topographic mapping(GTM) but which train the parameters in a different manner. Our first model was the Topographic Product of Experts (ToPoE) which is fast but not so data-driven as our second model, the Harmonic Topographic Mapping (HaToM). However the HaToM is much slo...

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the value of the adoption of a feminist epistemology in information, communication and technology (ICT) gender research. Much of the research undertaken in ICT in relation to gender issues adopts a positivist philosophy with some notable exceptions. A feminist research approach is rarely used in ICT gender research. This is despite the fact that it is gen...

Video coding standards are essential to a wide range of applications, but have certain limitations. New, flexible approaches to video compression have the potential to speed up adoption of new coding techniques, to improve compression performance through adaptive coding and to support multiple coding standards on a single platform. In this paper we describe the MPEG Reconfigurable Video Coding ...

• Elaborate and build upon a growing body of sociological knowledge concerned with cultural resistance and oppositional cultures • Emphasise the significance of human agency in mediating progressive social change • Analyse the innovative ways in which subordinated minority social groups, in this case indigenous Australians, negotiate ‘bi-culturality’, that is, the interface between indigenous c...

Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract The Motion Picture Experts Group...

We present a novel approach to deciding whether two sentences hold a paraphrase relationship. We employ a generative model that generates a paraphrase of a given sentence, and we use probabilistic inference to reason about whether two sentences share the paraphrase relationship. The model cleanly incorporates both syntax and lexical semantics using quasi-synchronous dependency grammars (Smith a...

In last one decade there have been further advancements in understanding various aspects of psychiatric disorders. Hence, it was thought that time has come to acknowledge the advances in Psychiatry to be translated into the practice of Psychiatry in India. With this thinking, I must place on record that during Hyderabad ANCIPS on January 11th, 2015, the Executive Council, under the leadership o...

The \mixture of experts" framework provides a modular and exible approach to function approximation. However, the important problem of determining the appropriate number and complexity of experts has not been fully explored. In this paper, we consider a localized form of the gating network that can perform function approximation tasks very well with only one layer of experts. Certain measures f...