OBJECTIVES Late entry of HIV-positive persons into specialized care is a significant challenge to limiting the spread of the HIV epidemic. In 2008-2010, only 54% of 108,116 persons who tested HIV positive enrolled in care at AIDS Centers in Ukraine, and almost half of new AIDS cases are found in patients with first-time HIV diagnoses. We aimed to identify factors associated with delayed enrolme...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the on-going scale-up of HIV programs, we assessed trends in patient characteristics at enrolment and ART initiation over 7 years of implementation. METHODS Data were from Optimal Models, a prospective open cohort study of HIV-infected (HIV+) adults (≥15 years) and children (<15 years) enrolled from January 2005 to December 2011 at 44 HIV clinics in 3 regions of mainlan...

In this paper, we proposed a hybrid algorithm to forecast enrolment based on fuzzy time series and genetic algorithms, the proposed algorithms presents a good forecasting result with higher accuracy rate. Historical enrolment of the University of Alabama from year 1948 to 2010 are used in this study to illustrate the forecasting process.

Public sector applications e.g. the process of application of a biometric visa are connected to different kinds of technical, organisational, and legal requirements. But how can those requirements and recommendations be retrieved, analysed and described? The German federal government has taken part in the European pilot project BioDEV II in order to gain comprehensive experiences regarding the ...

Using data from a large, U.S. federal job training program, we investigate whether enrolment incentives that exogenously vary the ‘shadow prices’ for serving different demographic subgroups of clients influence case workers’ intake decisions. We show that case workers enroll more clients from subgroups whose shadow prices increase but select at the margin weaker-performing members from those su...

Psychological literacy, a construct developed to reflect the types of skills graduates of a psychology degree should possess and be capable of demonstrating, has recently been scrutinized in terms of its measurement adequacy. The recent development of a multi-item measure encompassing the facets of psychological literacy has provided the potential for improved validity in measuring the construc...