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Risk-based decision making for staggered bioterrorist attacks : resource allocation and risk reduction in "reload" scenarios.
Lemaster, Michelle Nicole; Gay, David M.; Ehlen, Mark Andrew - 2010
which are difficult to gather and transport) are insufficient. Both communicable (plague) and non-communicable diseases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436170
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A scoping study on the costs of indoor air quality illnesses:an insurance loss reduction perspective
Chen, Allan; Vine, Edward L. - 2009
The incidence of commercial buildings with poor indoor air quality (IAQ), and the frequency of litigation over the effects of poor IAQ is increasing. If so, these increases have ramifications for insurance carriers, which pay for many of the costs of health care and general commercial liability....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436542
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The plight of the Sumatran elephant : a case study in conservation medicine in the field
Bartlett, Susan - 2003
The overpopulation problem in Sumatra, and the subsequent devastation of the environment due to logging, the planting of oil palm and rubber trees, and oil drilling, has caused elephants and humans to compete for available natural resources. Deprived of their indigenous forest, elephants destroy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466250
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ORTH: R and SAS Software for Regression Models of Correlated Binary Data Based on Orthogonalized Residuals and Alternating Logistic Regressions
By, Kunthel; Qaqish, Bahjat F; Preisser, John S; Perin, … - 2011
In this article, we describe a new software for modeling correlated binary data based on orthogonalized residuals (Zink and Qaqish, 2009), a recently developed estimating equations approach that includes, as a special case, alternating logistic regressions (Carey et al., 1993). The software is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468297
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Deletion Diagnostics for Alternating Logistic Regressions
Preisser, John S; By, Kunthel; Perin, Jamie; Qaqish, … - 2011
Deletion diagnostics are introduced for the regression analysis of clustered binary outcomes estimated with alternating logistic regressions, an implementation of generalized estimating equations (GEE) that estimates regression coefficients in a marginal mean model and in a model for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468298
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Shrinkage Estimation of Expression Fold Change As an Alternative to Testing Hypotheses of Equivalent Expression
Montazeri, Zahra; Yanofsky, Corey M.; Bickel, David R. - 2009
Research on analyzing microarray data has focused on the problem of identifying differentially expressed genes to the neglect of the problem of how to integrate evidence that a gene is differentially expressed with information on the extent of its differential expression. Consequently,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468311
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Iterative Projection Methods for Structured Sparsity Regularization
Rosasco, Lorenzo; Verri, Alessandro; Santoro, Matteo; … - 2009
In this paper we propose a general framework to characterize and solve the optimization problems underlying a large class of sparsity based regularization algorithms. More precisely, we study the minimization of learning functionals that are sums of a differentiable data term and a convex non...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432897
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Cost-effective cardiology in the new national health system in South Africa : a proposal
Cilliers, Willie - 2009
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa is on the verge of major changes in the private medical sector. The government’s planned National Health Insurance has far reaching implications for all role players in the industry, as well as for the general public. This paper looks at the changes that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442094
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The role played by the insurance industry in providing antiretroviral treatment
Mabusela, Adelaide Mmatema - 2009
living with AIDS depends on antiretroviral treatment. To successfully roll out the provision of antiretroviral, resources … revealed that insurance companies do extend the provision of antiretroviral treatment to their staff as part of medical aid … services. Clients who are covered by the medical scheme also get antiretroviral treatment. 13, 3 % of the uninsurable get …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442180
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Progressing from identification and functional analysis of precursor behavior to treatment of self-injury.
Dracobly, Joseph Daniel - 2009
conditional probability analyses. A precursor functional analysis was then conducted. Subsequently, a treatment, in which … natural environment. Treatment resulted in increases in the precursor behavior and decreases in self-injury in both the … treatment setting and the second setting in which observations occurred. Implications of the assessment and treatment procedures …
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