a decision tree for policy makers

... Kiani S, Bayanzadeh M, Tavallaee M and Hogg RS (2010) The Iranian population is graying: Are we ready? Arch Iranian Med 13(4), 333-339 14 Lasheras C, Patterson AM, Casado C and Fernandez S (2001) ... 2009; Fassino et al., 2002; Nilsson et al., 2004) Decreased availability of family caregivers providing day-today care for their elderly family members as a result of urbanization and transformation ... total mental (N=220) on total physical health, total mental health and SF-36 score health, and total SF-36 were calculated using scoring Total physical Total mental Total SF-36 algorithms The association...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... the Gaussian (radial basis function) kernel was used, as it has some advantages compared to the linear SVM and others The data for the SVM training was automatically scaled to zero mean and unit ... 2004 [2] A Bugatti, A Flammini, and P Migliorati, “Audio classification in speech and music: a comparison between a statistical and a neural approach,” EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, ... speech and for music, and for each a set of candidate features for discrimination is computed A probability density function (PDF) is then estimated for each feature and for each class (Figure 1 (a) )...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... When compared to all causes of death, prostate cancer is the fourth leading cause of death among African American men over age 45 Top Ten Causes of Death among African American Men over Age 45 ... your particular case How serious is prostate cancer in African American men? Among the 10 leading causes of cancer death in African American men, prostate cancer is second, behind lung cancer ... ups Am Ra o an All ic Gr fric n A Eth 64.4 47.6 37.2 26.4 ite Wh ic an p His ian Ind tive an a ric a N me lask A A ic cif Pa ian As der an Isl What is the lifetime risk of prostate cancer in African...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... hand and draught animal powered equipment and the use of local artisans (jua kali) for repair work Kenyan manufacturers are generally reluctant to manufacture for the small-scale farm sector as ... Paraná State, Brazil PRONAF Programa de Apoio a Agricultura Familiar (National family farmers support programme, Brazil) PSQCA Pakistan Standards Quality Control Authority R&D research and development ... Empresa de Asistencia Técnica e Extensão Rural (Brazilian technical assistance and extension corporation) EMBRAPA Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation)...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... age is also available for many of these indicators Users can compare data for counties, states, and the United States and can choose various output formats, including graphs, maps, tables, and slides ... death data Prepared by the March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center, 2009 March of Dimes Infant Mortality and Race/Ethnicity of Mother n African-American infants are nearly two and a half times as likely ... birth/infant death data All other data from the National Center for Health Statistics, 2006 final natality data Prepared by the March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center, 2009 comp l eted wee k s gestation...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 03:20

... between cannabis use and depression Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2003, 98(11):1493-1504 Harder VS, Morral AR, Arkes J: Marijuana use and depression among adults: Testing for causal associations Addiction ... associations Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2006, 101(10):1463-1472 Hayatbakhsh MR, Najman JM, Jamrozik K, Mamun AA, Alati R, Bor W: Cannabis and anxiety and depression in young adults: a large prospective ... [9], and late-life depression [4,5] Decision trees are a family of analytic techniques, which include CHAID (Chi-square Automatic Interaction Detector) and CART (Classification and Regression Trees)...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... MANDATORY ROTATION OF AUDIT FIRMS OF PUBLICLY HELD COMPANIES (New York 1992) B Arrunada and C Paz-Ares, Mandatory Rotation Of Company Auditors: A Critical Examination, INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF LAW ... expectations about financial health take into account managers’ incentives to obtain more favourable reports Similarly, Teoh (1992) assumed that rational investors take account of information signalled ... reporting can increase auditors’ incentives to exert effort and thereby increase audit quality (Thoman, 1996) Thoman’s model assumes that an auditor faces a litigation threat when a clean audit opinion...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:43

... to arrive at a final decision In addition, many models guiding the policy making process assume policy makers are capable of accurately analyzing decision information, understanding the relevant ... available to decision makers in the policy formulation process Availability of translatable data would expand the individual experience factor and become part of the information basis that influence ... 45 Maynard RA: Presidential Address - Evidence-Based Decision Making: What Will it Take for the Decision Makers to Care? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 2006, 25:249-265 46 Simon HA:...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:22

... Ottawa, Canada 7Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada 8Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Page of Ottawa, Canada 9Health Information Research Unit, McMaster ... Acknowledgements The authors thank Adalsteinn Brown, Alison Paprica, and Sarah Caldwell, MOHLTC, for supporting the study and identifying ways to allow for its operationalisation The authors also thank the ... (an effort to facilitate policy makers efforts to ‘pull’ in research when they need it), monthly email alerts about new additions to the database (a ‘push’ effort), and fulltext article availability...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... 96(19):1420-5 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), Australasian Association of Cancer Registries (AACR) Cancer in Australia In: Cancer in Australia 2001; Cancer series number 28 Canberra: Australian ... Karakosta A, Golias Ch, Charalabopoulos A, et al Genetic models of human cancer as a multistep process Paradigm models of colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and chronic myelogenous and acute lymphoblastic ... colorectal cancer detection A total of 264 serum samples from colorectal cancer patients and healthy volunteers was collected and analyzed A panel of differentially expressed proteins was advocated for...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... information, and comparing its performance to a state-of-the-art grammar-based parser on a common task It remains to be shown that an accurate broad-coverage parser can improve the performance ... than a human can keep track of The SPATTER parser illustrates how large amounts of contextual information can be incorporated into a statistical model for parsing by applying decision- tree learning ... adaptation of tags, labels, and extensions Each feature has a fixed the CART algorithm in (Breiman et al., 1984) For vocabulary, with each element of a given feature vodetailed descriptions and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 22:20

... syntactic tree alignment model for machine translation For example, (Wu 1997; Alshawi, Bangalore, and Douglas, 2000; Yamada and Knight, 2001) have studied synchronous context free grammar This formalism ... information contained in the parallel data and effectively uses it to pinpoint the location holding more parallel data This approach is based on our observation that parallel pages share similar ... The Mathematics of Statistical Machine Translation: Parameter Estimation Computational Linguistics, V19(2) Callison-Burch, C and C Bannard 2005 Paraphrasing with Bilingual Parallel Corpora In...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... Japanese, and hyphens indicate character boundaries Different types of characters are used in Japanese: hiragana, katakana, kanji, symbols, numbers, and letters of the Roman alphabet We use 17 character ... OO-SAKA-SHI-NAI into two words OO-SAKA (= Osaka) and SHINAI (= in the city), but the training data would be tagged as OO-SAKA-SHINAI (= in Osaka City ) ... noun For instance, we will get the following rule from OOSAKA-TO-YO-TA (= Osaka Toyota) because Japanese POS taggers know that TO-YO-TA is an organization name (a kind...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 05:20

... Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Macgillivray, Ian K 1967Sexual orientation and school policy : a practical guide for teachers, administrators, and community activists ... Lipkin Forthcoming in the Series Border Sexualities and Border Families By Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli S E X U A L ORIENTATION A N D SCHOOL POLICY A Practical Guide for Teachers, Administrators, and ... requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence Materials, ANSI/NISO 239.48- 1992 of Paper for Printed Library Dedicated to the High Plains Safe Schools Coalition Keep...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 05:20

... the tree to obtain a set of subtrees The reason for keeping a hierarchy instead of a fixed partition of the vocabulary is to be able to dynamically adjust the partition to accommodate for training ... Souza, and R L Mercer 1989 A tree- based statistical language model for natural language speech recognition IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 37:10011008 L Breiman, ... perform significantly better than the standard N-gram approach The algorithm produced satisfactory results on a 5000-word vocabulary One can see from the sample classes that the automatic building...

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Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 00:20

... Lexical Chain Features Chain starts and ends We follow (Chan et al 2007) to model the lexical chain starts and ends at a story boundary with a statistical distribution We apply a window around ... We have presented a Bayesian decision framework that performs automatic story segmentation based on statistical modeling of one or more lexical chain features, including lexical chain starts, ... approach in (Chan et al 2007) based on the training data The optimal value is found to be 130.9sec for long programs We make use of three lexical chain features: chain starts, continuations and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... operating with fewer than half the health workforce necessary to deliver basic health services, with even higher vacancy rates in rural areas [18] Staff-to-population ratios nationally are as ... currently a surplus of qualified applicants at the national training institutions, this may change if training institution enrolment were increased dramatically Adequate preparation in primary and ... Foundation assessment of all 39 medical training institutions in Zambia The assessment determined graduation rates to be 9097%, based on available data and interviews with school staff [27] The same assessment...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... frontal left lobes of Alpha and Gamma2 band and central lobes of the Alpha band Alterations in the Alpha band are also expected since they are generally associated with problems in attention and ... years analyzed in [32] have also shown an increase in theta and alpha power When considering the mathematical subtraction Task the most significant bands (Table 2) are Theta, Beta and Gamma2 ... group for both the signal representation approach and the signal modelling approach in the univariate and bivariate cases Once the features were available, classification was performed using a simple...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... develop at later stages [16–18] Lab situations as we use today for training systems are not available in the real world It is always an amalgamation of different types of inputs, where relevant information ... the visual shape of a person, a voice, and a certain odour and conclude that all this information belongs to a particular person currently talking In analogy to this modular hierarchical structure ... scenario describes a formal get-together for working purposes It is usually characterized by a number of people that are seated regularly around the table They have papers or laptops to read and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20