OBJECTIVE Immunization rates are static in the United States. Risk factors for not being up to date (UTD) include ethnicity and lower socioeconomic status. Reminder cards increase immunization rates in urban settings. Their effect in poor, Latino, and rural children is unknown. BACKGROUND Language-appropriate reminder cards were sent to active patients not UTD listing the vaccines missing; th...

INTRODUCTION Recent pertussis outbreaks in the United States suggest our response to local disease outbreaks (eg, vaccine-preventable Bordetella pertussis) may benefit from understanding and applying spatial analytical methods that use data from immunization information systems at a subcounty level. METHODS A 2012 study on Denver, CO, residents less than 19 years of age confirmed pertussis ca...

Unsupervised term discovery (UTD) is the task of automatically identifying the repeated words and phrases in a collection of speech audio without relying on any language-specific resources. While the solution space for the task is far from fully explored, the dominant approach to date decomposes the discovery problem into two steps, where (i) segmental dynamic time warping is used to search the...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Washington State experienced a pertussis epidemic from October 2011 to December 2012. There was wide variation in incidence by county. The objectives of this study were to determine how the pertussis epidemic affected infant vaccination in Washington State and whether the incidence in counties modified this effect. METHODS We conducted an ecologic before-after study ...

We derive the novel asymptotic solutions for the scattered field when a cylindrical wave is incident on a coated conducting cylinder with a thin lossy dielectric material. We show that the extended UTD (uniform geometrical theory of diffraction) solution and the modified UTD solution derived by retaining the second order term are uniformly applicable in the transition region near the shadow bou...

BACKGROUND The use of immunization assessment and referral (A/R) in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) has been shown to produce dramatic improvements in vaccination coverage when coupled with parental incentive; however, data are lacking to support the use of A/R alone. OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of A/R in increasing immunization c...

BACKGROUND Influenza is common in children. Children with asthma are underimmunized. The Centers for Disease Control recommends immunization in an acute-care hospital setting. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the potential clinical benefit and cost savings of delivering influenza vaccination to hospitalized children with asthma. DESIGN The study was designed as a decisio...

OBJECTIVES We studied the association between immunization coverage for a cohort of 2-year-old children covered by a universal health insurance plan and pediatric provider and other health services characteristics. METHODS We assembled a cohort of 101,570 infants born in urban areas in Ontario, Canada, between July 1, 1997, and June 31, 1998. Children were considered to have up-to-date (UTD) ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this article is to describe the history and resources of the doctor of audiology (AuD) program at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)/Callier Center for Communication Disorders, as well as to provide an overview of the program. METHOD Data from 1999, when the AuD program was approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Program, to the present were reviewed. ...

We present a preliminary investigation on the usefulness of prosodic boundaries for unsupervised term discovery (UTD). Studies in language acquisition show that infants use prosodic boundaries to segment continuous speech into word-like units. We evaluate whether such a strategy could also help UTD algorithms. Running a previously published UTD algorithm (MODIS) on a corpus of prosodically anno...