Introduction Introduction of comprehensive framework for community-based monitoring (CBM) and planning at various levels of the public health system has been one of the most significant policy initiatives under the national rural health mission. One of the key considerations while introducing this large-scale social experiment was to fill the accountability deficit of the public health system b...

In order to face evolutions of software systems, model-driven engineering (MDE) uses model transformations for software development. This paper focuses on issues that are essential in the context of information systems that process data from clinical trials. Indeed, such software systems should adapt to recurrent evolutions of their contexts. This way, by defining model structures and model com...

We consider a discrete-time stochastic growth model on d-dimensional lattice. The growth model describes various interesting examples such as oriented site/bond percolation, directed polymers in random environment, time discretizations of binary contact path process. We show the equivalence between the slow population growth and a localization property in terms of “replica overlap”. This extend...

We introduce the discording power of a unitary transformation, which assesses its capability to produce quantum discord, and analyze in detail the generation of discord by relevant classes of two-qubit gates. Our measure is based on the Cartan decomposition of two-qubit unitaries and on evaluating the maximum discord achievable by a unitary upon acting on classical-classical states at fixed pur...