The New South Wales Department of Health (NSW Health) wishes to make appropriate use of casemix data as inputs to the determination of funding levels for small rural hospitals. However, other factors such as hospital size and degree of isolation might need to be taken into account. The study reported here involved correlation of actual expenditures with those predicted by use of a casemix model...

XING is a leading career-oriented social networking site in Europe, which usually recommend job ads to their customers. One of the widely used methods in Recomender Systems is content-based filtering, which analyzes the description of item characteristics and the user profile illustrating user’s preferences. Due to the sparsity of its dataset, i.e. many job postings are rarely interacted with, ...

For the 2006 Terabyte track in TREC, Dublin City University’s participation was focussed on the ad hoc search task. As per the pervious two years [7, 4], our experiments on the Terabyte track have concentrated on the evaluation of a sorted inverted index, the aim of which is to sort the postings within each posting list in such a way, that allows only a limited number of postings to be processe...

A blog homepage consists of many individual blog postings. Current blog search services focus on retrieving postings but there is also a need to identify relevant blog homepages. In this paper, we investigate the properties of blog collections and describe the differences between blog homepage searches and general web page searches. We also introduce and evaluate a variety of approaches for blo...

In this paper, we examine ways that participants in online math problemsolving chat sessions dis-attend and attend to postings by other participants and the ways that participants design their postings to elicit responses from recipients. This is consequential in terms of the design of CSCL systems that use chat as the basis of participant interaction. By developing a proper understanding of th...

BACKGROUND The ability of many countries to achieve national health goals such as the Millennium Development Goals remains hindered by inadequate and poorly distributed health personnel, including doctors. The distribution of doctors in Ghana is highly skewed, with a majority serving in two major metropolitan areas (Accra and Kumasi), and inadequate numbers in remote and rural districts. Recent...

This study examines anxiety-related postings on Sina Weibo to gain insight into social networking about mental health. The themes of a random sample of anxiety-related postings (n = 1000) were assessed. The disclosure of anxiety was the most common theme. The prevalence of anxiety was higher in certain areas where the economy is stronger than others, and the people living there suffered from mo...

Hashtag activism happens when large numbers of postings appear on social media under a common hashtagged word, phrase or sentence with a social or political claim. The temporal unfolding of these mutually connected postings in networked spaces gives them a narrative form and agency. Applying Karlyn Campbell’s propositions about rhetorical agency to the case of #BlackLivesMatter, this essay show...