Having information about preexisting chronic diseases and available public health assets is critical to ensuring an adequate public health response to natural disasters and acts of terrorism. We describe a method to derive this information using a combination of data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and geographic information systems (GIS) technology. Our demonstration focuse...

In this paper, we present our lessons from the design and use of two educational software tools for teaching behavioral modeling to graduate students of digital art. The tools, PainterAnts and VLab, allow the experimentation and control of simulated ants that paint, or Braitenberg vehicle-like agents (Braitenberg 1984). To better address the target audience of digital art students, we have tran...

This statement reeects experience of our group in conceptual modelling with Entity-Relationship and object-oriented approaches. It describes a general view on structural and behavioral aspects of conceptual models, their interrelationships, and their transformations , and sketches a proposal to build integrated models of them. Frame for Conceptual Modelling: We assume design of structural and b...

introduction: the critical dependence of healthcare services systems on information along with the indigenous restriction of paper documents in satisfying this need has caused a trend toward computer information systems. the main goal of such systems is to achieve electronic health records (ehr). however, implementation of ehr in healthcare organizations is difficult and complicated. this resea...

In asynchronous system, initiation and completion of operations are events that can occur at any instant and the execution time is data dependent. Thus if an asynchronous timing model is considered, we can provide scheduling and resource allocation methods which will have a significant impact on the performance and the area of the final implementation. Until now the different methods proposed f...