This thesis investigates several issues in data and computation modeling for scientific problem solving envi-ronments (PSEs). A PSE is viewed as a software system that provides (i) a library of simulation components,(ii) experiment management, (ii) reasoning about simulations and data, and (iv) problem solving abstrac-tions. Three specific ideas, in functionalities (ii)-(iv), form t...

Highly sensitive and specific, quantitative assays are needed to detect varicella-zoster virus (VZV) immunoglobulin G in human sera, particularly for determining immune status and response following vaccination. A time-resolved fluorescence immunoassay (TRFIA) has been developed, and its performance was compared to that of two commercial enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) and Merck glycoprotein EIA (gp...

Administration (EIA) provides analyses used to assess proposed energy and environmental policies and to make energy forecast for the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO). The tool used by EIA for these mid to long term forecasts is the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS), a large-scale model of energy supply, demand, prices, and technologies. One component of NEMS is the Petroleum Marketing Module (P...

With the emergence of light field imaging in recent years, compression its elementary image array (EIA) has become a significant problem. Our coding framework includes modeling and reconstruction. For modeling, covariance-matrix form 4-D Epanechnikov kernel (4-D EK) correlated statistics were deduced to obtain mixture models EMMs). A regression EMR) was proposed based on this EK, adaptive model...

The present study was aimed at measuring citizens’ behavior intention (BI) regarding mandatory and voluntary pro-environmental programs. Two pro-environmental activities, which consist of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) as a mandatory program and ecolabel products as a voluntary program, were predicted by a pro-environmental planned behavior (PEPB) model. A total of 240 questionnaire d...

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is one of the principal indicators for human health evaluation as well as for further issues in occupational medicine, public health and planning. Certain difficulties to evaluate EIA appear due to, on the one hand, the nature of contaminants and health characteristics, and, on the other, the difficulties found in data processing, such as heterogeneity of t...

The four following commercially available enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) were assessed and compared for their performance in detecting Mycoplasma pneumoniae immunoglobulin G (IgG)- and IgM-specific antibodies Platelia EIA, ImmunoWELL M. pneumoniae ELISA IgG and IgM, ETI-MP-IgG and IgM EIAs and Biotest anti-M. pneumoniae IgG and IgM ELISA (referred to herein as EIA-Platelia, EIA-BMD, EIA-Sorin, and ...

Background Early diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory arthritis (IA) is essential: BSR guidance states patients must be seen within three weeks started on disease modifying anti-rheumatoid drugs (DMARDs) six weeks. Objectives To evaluate how effectively people referred with a new IA are being triaged, whether national standards met analyse variables which may influence triage IA. Methods A r...

Changes in the practice of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and advances in information technology have greatly expanded the range of tools available to the EIA practitioner. For example, map overlay methods, originally pioneered by McHarg (1971), have evolved into sophisticated Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Expert systems, a branch of artificial intelligence, have been developed t...