• By placing Pacific people at the centre of our approaches, and with our deep understanding of Blue Pacific contexts and worldviews, we embark on the journey to implement the Strategic Plan 2022 - 2031 that encompasses the insights and foresight of our members, staff and key stakeholders. (spc.int)
  • FeatureCloud removes the complexity of distributed systems for developers and end users by providing a comprehensive platform for executing multi-institutional FL analyses and implementing FL algorithms. (jmir.org)
  • This publication presents a broad range of current approaches to measuring vulnerability and contains concrete experiences and examples from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe to illustrate the theoretical analyses. (who.int)
  • The methodological approach of the thesis is multi-faceted, including conceptual analyses, scientometrics, and a short survey of collection managers and an analysis of the corresponding libraries' collection policies. (lu.se)
  • Yet, the political and institutional framework at the regional level, as well as the market conditions, negatively influence the adoption potential. (cgiar.org)
  • This important book presents a systematic theoretical approach and control framework on the time-varying formation tracking for high-order heterogeneous swarm systems. (routledge.com)
  • Facilitate partnerships and linkages with other mental health care providers that reduce duplication of services and leverage cooperative, efficient approaches. (cmha.ca)
  • METHODS: This qualitative analysis is part of Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success, a participatory mixed methods validity study that examined "success" and its contributing factors in long-standing CBPR partnerships. (bvsalud.org)
  • This study is an overview of the effectiveness and institutional challenges of China's Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP). (mdpi.com)
  • We have a strong comparative advantage in being able to bring a multi-disciplinary approach to addressing some of the region's most complex development challenges, Resilience and climate action, natural resources and biodiversity, food systems, equity, education and social development, sustainable economies and livelihoods, planetary health and transforming institutional effectiveness. (spc.int)
  • One Health approaches, defined as the integrative effort of multiple sectors working to attain optimal health for people, animals, and the environment, involve different collaborative models across and within countries, with the aim of improving efficiency and effectiveness in managing health threats. (plos.org)
  • Furthermore, the proposed control approaches are applied to practical cooperative experiment platforms composed of UAVs and UGVs, and several formation tracking experiments are carried out to further verify the effectiveness of the theories. (routledge.com)
  • Does the configuration of macro- and micro-institutional environments affect the effectiveness of green supply chain integration? (crossref.org)
  • Examine the relationship between land use, urban form and travel behaviour, including the policy and institutional contexts related to the planning and regulation of multi-modal urban transport systems. (edu.au)
  • The creation of an effective retention engine requires several elements that must be adapted for specific institutional and programmatic environments. (evolllution.com)
  • One Health cannot be achieved without results-oriented and outcome driven operational tools that can consistently break through cultural, sectoral, institutional, and financial barriers to promote multi-sectoral coordination and collaboration. (plos.org)
  • Some barriers may involve academic and institutional standards, and require long and multi-stage efforts to resolve. (evolllution.com)
  • The One Health Systems Mapping and Analysis Resource Toolkit (OH-SMART) introduced in this paper was designed using a multistage prototyping process to support systematic improvement in multi-sectoral coordination and collaboration to better address complex health concerns through an operational, stepwise, and practical One Health approach. (plos.org)
  • Learning robot behavior using genetic algorithms Image processing: Dense pixel matching Learning fuzzy rule base using genetic algorithms Molecular structure optimization (chemistry) Optimisation of data compression systems, for example using wavelets. (wikipedia.org)
  • I lead the computational algorithms team at the multi-institutional BrainGate pilot clinical trial, which is investigating the feasibility of neural interfaces for motor function restoration in people with paralysis. (massgeneral.org)
  • In the South, ICRA stimulates building national innovation platforms to collectively strengthen institutional capabilities to build capacity in, use and institutionalize new multi-actor approaches to rural innovation and interactive learning. (bibalex.org)
  • To date, OH-SMART has been used to strengthen One Health systems in 17 countries and has been deployed to revise emergency response frameworks, improve antimicrobial resistance national action plans and create multi agency infectious disease collaboration protocols. (plos.org)
  • Arguments, however, also contribute to many institutional aspects of social reality, and in particular, affect and strengthen the relation of trust between participants in public life. (springer.com)
  • These datasets are currently siloed between many different institutional, regional, and national systems, making it impossible to leverage their collective power to make discoveries. (autismspeaks.org)
  • This approach calls for government agencies to leverage civilian expertise to provide integrated soft-power solutions to complement proven hard-power options. (ausa.org)
  • Audio watermark insertion/detection Airlines revenue management Automated design of mechatronic systems using bond graphs and genetic programming (NSF) Automated design of industrial equipment using catalogs of exemplar lever patterns Automated design, including research on composite material design and multi-objective design of automotive components for crashworthiness, weight savings, and other characteristics Automated planning of structural inspection Container loading optimization Control engineering, Marketing mix analysis Mechanical engineering Mobile communications infrastructure optimization. (wikipedia.org)
  • Informal settlements are particularly vulnerable to environmental hazards, due to the lack of infrastructure such as drainage systems and because residents' homes are built with inferior materials. (researchgate.net)
  • This will require a multi-pronged institutional approach in coordination with the State government. (thebetterindia.com)
  • In cross-domain collaborative applications, including air-ground coordination and air-sea coordination, swarm systems are usually composed of several heterogeneous agents, and swarm intelligence can be enhanced by complementary functions of different agents. (routledge.com)
  • How to achieve time-varying formation tracking for heterogeneous swarm systems is crucial for cross-domain coordination, which has important theoretical value and practical significance. (routledge.com)
  • Self-Directed Biological Transformation Initiative (SBTI) study will use latest mobile health sensors and genomic/cellular/metabolomics biomarkers Scientists and clinicians from seven research institutions have joined together for a first of a kind clinical trial on a whole systems approach to wellbeing. (beliefnet.com)
  • He was Director of the Centre for Systems Studies at Hull from 1997 to 2003 and from 2010 to 2014. (asc-cybernetics.org)
  • Within the H2020 project, InnoForEst, I am collaborating with the Universeum Science Centre in Gothenburg to study how school children interact with forest ecosystems, and how they can learn more about climate change through multi-actor collaborations. (lu.se)
  • By establishing this system at a public higher education academic laboratory in Malawi, we have ensured that ongoing capacity building and piloting of public health work is conducted in the country, rather than relying on non-governmental organisations or reference laboratory support beyond national borders. (bvsalud.org)
  • Another advantage of this approach is its awareness of different levels of observation, differentiating, for instance, between whether the academic librarian's neutrality is imagined as playing out in interaction with the user (passive neutrality), as representing the diversity of the research system (active neutrality), or as balancing social bias running through society at large, and hence furthering social justice (culturally humble neutrality). (lu.se)
  • According to a Sustainability Science approach, my research is based in perspective that natural and social systems as closely coupled, which in practice means that both research and teaching is carried out in interdisciplinary teams. (lu.se)
  • While universities are central in those advancements, their administrative systems may lag considerably, obviating even basic analytical approaches to strategic development. (bc.net)
  • Our intent is to expose the HE IT community to the types of analytical exercises used in institutional strategic development and start conversations on how we can collaborate to tackle some of the technical challenges associated with these activities. (bc.net)
  • The achievements and challenges in turn benefit experts tasked with developing the general approach in an interdisciplinary multi-stakeholder dialogue platform, consisting of scientists, governmental representatives, humanitarian aid workers and institutional actors. (lu.se)
  • Although performance-based feedback can be provided, in theory, by recently-developed artificial intelligence (AI) systems that use a computational model to assess a surgeon's skill, the reliability of this feedback remains unknown. (nature.com)
  • Medicine: Clinical decision support in ophthalmology and oncology Computational Neuroscience: finding values for the maximal conductances of ion channels in biophysically detailed neuron models Protein folding and protein/ligand docking Selection of optimal mathematical model to describe biological systems Operon prediction. (wikipedia.org)
  • The educational and laboratory experiences available to students span all areas of contemporary neuroscience (e.g., cognitive, behavioral, computational, molecular & cellular, and systems). (stonybrook.edu)
  • The inguinal approach, with ligation of the processus vaginalis high within the internal inguinal ring, is the procedure of choice for pediatric hydroceles (typically, communicating). (medscape.com)
  • In contrast, Alp et al report that the scrotal approach is an effective alternative for the treatment of communicating hydrocele in pediatric patients. (medscape.com)
  • Novel MRI deformation-heterogeneity radiomic features are associated with molecular subgroups and overall survival in pediatric medulloblastoma: Preliminary findings from a multi-institutional study Front Oncol. (usc.edu)
  • Clinical and neuropsychological outcome of pediatric non-midline central nervous system germinoma treated with chemotherapy and reduced dose/volume irradiation: The Children's Hospital Los Angeles experience Pediatr Blood Cancer. (usc.edu)
  • The aim of the present Methodological Guidebook is to deepen our knowledge of such groundwater systems, fostering a collaborative, equitable and sustainable management of these resources. (inbo-news.org)
  • It also takes a look at the potential mechanisms for creating and sustainably operating an appropriate institutional structure to manage these shared groundwater resources. (inbo-news.org)
  • In a study by Saka et al, 69 patients with hydrocele underwent either laparoscopic percutaneous extraperitoneal closure (40 patients) or open repair (29 patients), and the safety and efficacy of the two approaches were compared. (medscape.com)
  • Multi-institutional study of the frequency, genomic landscape, and outcome of IDH-mutant glioma in pediatrics Neuro Oncol. (usc.edu)
  • Outcomes of Infants and Young Children With Relapsed Medulloblastoma After Initial Craniospinal Irradiation-Sparing Approaches: An International Cohort Study J Clin Oncol. (usc.edu)
  • 6 ) describe 2 approaches to targeting interventions: one in which the number of recipient schools or communities is determined by available resources and the other in which a prevalence threshold is defined above which all schools or communities benefit from the intervention. (cdc.gov)
  • OH-SMART has proven to be user friendly, robust, and capable of fostering multi-sectoral collaboration and complex system-wide problem solving. (plos.org)
  • Responder's Course (the Course) was developed as a multi-institutional collaboration to equip EMT members attending a MCI with the necessary skills to perform effectively at the FAP. (who.int)
  • Our findings outline the potential of AI systems to support the training of surgeons by providing feedback that is reliable and focused on a particular skill, and guide programs that give surgeons qualifications by complementing skill assessments with explanations that increase the trustworthiness of such assessments. (nature.com)
  • Finally, I design wireless communications technology for a range of healthcare applications including chronically implantable stimulation and recording systems, telemedicine, 24-hour patient monitoring, and wireless body area networks. (massgeneral.org)
  • Massachusetts' healthcare system requires more sophisticated approaches than faxing records back and forth. (fortherecordmag.com)
  • However the healthcare system has changed from the 1920s to the present, one concern has remained paramount to Catholic healthcare facilities: how to preserve Catholic values in a rapidly evolving healthcare system. (chausa.org)
  • Multi-institutional analysis of central nervous system germ cell tumors in patients with Down syndrome Pediatr Blood Cancer. (usc.edu)
  • Primary diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumors of the central nervous system: Report of three cases and review of literature Pediatr Hematol Oncol. (usc.edu)
  • Advancing biology-based therapeutic approaches for atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors Neuro Oncol. (usc.edu)
  • Not long afterward, other surgeons began to approach abnormalities of the anterior mediastinum, specifically tumors and infections of the thymus and anterior mediastinal lymph nodes. (medscape.com)
  • development of multi-level research metrics). (bc.net)
  • The core of any retention effort requires a commitment to establishing metrics and systems to track them. (evolllution.com)
  • The traditional approach of centralized "data sharing" is not suitable because uploading copies of large and sensitive information to one datacenter is not fast, efficient, scalable, secure, or compliant, and does not empower individuals and organizations to retain control of their data, measure impact, or enforce attribution. (autismspeaks.org)
  • Embracing a blockchain-agnostic approach and ensuring interoperability across the Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) landscape, it delivers a scalable, robust, performant, and user-friendly platform. (meetup.com)
  • Keeping archival data, and data that needs rapid access in large scalable file storage systems, described and linked to RDMPs, data descriptions, and data publication records. (ptsefton.com)
  • A global consortium of scientists from federal laboratories, research institutes, academia, and industry has formed to address the challenges of building large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) systems and advancing trustworthy and reliable AI for scientific discovery. (eurekalert.org)
  • We're also committed to intensifying our work with the humanitarian and development sectors across the UN system, and all partners with which we work. (who.int)
  • 2. To improve access to quality health services, safe water, environmental sanitation and waste disposal systems. (who.int)
  • To maintain health and quality of life of individuals with diet-related non-communicable diseases4.10 Goal: To establish an effective and efficient nutrition information system that will support policy analysis and programming.Objectives1. (who.int)
  • The ONC has designated funds in support of "states' efforts to rapidly build capacity for exchanging health information across the health care system. (fortherecordmag.com)
  • Coordinating care among a patient's multi-institutional care team and, in a manner consistent with meaningful use, is no easy task," said Sean Kennedy, director of health information exchange at the Massachusetts eHealth Institute. (fortherecordmag.com)
  • The One Health approach is the integrative effort of multiple sectors working to attain optimal health for people, animals, and the environment, and is increasingly recognized by experts as a means to address complex challenges. (plos.org)
  • However, practical application of the One Health approach has been challenging. (plos.org)
  • Common challenges in operationalizing One Health include lack of information sharing between disciplines and agencies, inequitable funding for multi-sectoral engagement, and imbalanced participation among human and animal professionals as well as those from the environmental and ecosystem health sectors [ 7 , 8 ]. (plos.org)
  • SCI takes the latter approach, delineating areas according to the World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended threshold prevalence of 50% for annual mass treatment. (cdc.gov)
  • Electronic health record (EHR) systems provide an opportunity to use timely and detailed clinical data for public health surveillance, especially to monitor chronic conditions for which up-to-date surveillance information is sparse (1). (cdc.gov)
  • critical to success than the "soil" of the developments in health health system. (who.int)
  • Both new systems and regulation - driven largely sector, and 8 did not require periodic and old programmes are increasingly by national governments and interna- relicensing) linked to health care funding, or to an tional donor agencies ( 1 ). (who.int)
  • The traditional escalating governmental focus on qual- · 11 countries had a policy on ac- collegial model of accreditation is mov- ity health care, or to health system regu- creditation (of which most were a ing towards a semi-regulatory model of component of health care reform lation, or all three. (who.int)
  • many newer pro- and supported by legislation, 7 were national and international accreditation grammes, for political, economic or tech- voluntary systems but only 3 were organizations summarized the drivers nical reasons, have failed to meet initial directly linked to health insurance or for health care providers to participate expectations but others have flourished. (who.int)
  • As Singapore resources and capabilities of a health-care system run is general y free from natural disasters, the training the risk of becoming overwhelmed by the number and focused on responses to intentional and unintentional severity of casualties. (who.int)
  • Swarm system, also known as multi-agent system, refers to a system composed of multiple subsystems (agents) with certain communication, calculation, decision-making, and action capabilities through local information interaction, such as a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), satellites, etc. (routledge.com)
  • A Feature Paper should be a substantial original Article that involves several techniques or approaches, provides an outlook for future research directions and describes possible research applications. (mdpi.com)
  • A three-day capacity building workshop was held in Hyderabad, India, to familiarize senior staff of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) with the innovation systems approach to agricultural research. (bibalex.org)
  • This multidisciplinary research will help us to better understand and mitigate the environmental risks from cattle production systems on the Southern Great Plains. (usda.gov)
  • We approach project objectives with a research philosophy that uses a multidisciplinary approach, emphasizes multiple methods and independent approaches to answer questions, and employs these at multiple scales from lab bench to pastures and feedyards. (usda.gov)
  • My research focuses on the development of signal processing techniques for biomedical engineering systems, particularly with neuroscience and neuroengineering applications. (massgeneral.org)
  • IFAD's programme of technical assistance grants for agricultural research (AR/TAGs) was established in 1979 to provide grant support to the international agricultural research centres (IARCs) and, through them, to the national agricultural research systems (NARS). (ifad.org)
  • IFAD's approach in supporting agricultural research is embodied in a number of Executive Board policy documents between 1979 and 1991 and an internal 1997 document. (ifad.org)
  • Gerald Midgley is Professor of Systems Thinking and Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise in the Business School at the University of Hull, UK. (asc-cybernetics.org)
  • From 2003 to 2010, he was a Senior Science Leader in the Social Systems Group at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), New Zealand. (asc-cybernetics.org)
  • Gerald has had over 300 papers on systems thinking, action research and stakeholder engagement published in international journals, edited books and practitioner magazines, and has been involved in a wide variety of public sector, community development, technology foresight and resource management projects. (asc-cybernetics.org)
  • A faculty member at San José State since 1977, Bill is a systems scientist/cybernetician whose teaching, research, and practice centers on the use of collaborative entrepreneurial approaches to address hyper-complex global and institutional issues in more integrated ways. (asc-cybernetics.org)
  • CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food-secure future dedicated to transforming food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis. (cgiar.org)
  • Through coursework and independent research, students are trained to approach research problems in neuroscience with a broad perspective. (stonybrook.edu)
  • His research interests include distributed control, optimization, and game for swarm systems. (routledge.com)
  • His research interests include consensus control, formation control, and containment control of swarm systems with applications to UAV swarm systems. (routledge.com)
  • His research interests include aircraft guidance, navigation and control, and cooperative guidance and control of swarm systems. (routledge.com)
  • The value of the approach lies in its in-built capacity for social change: peripheries are constructed communicatively, and culturally humble communication avoids adding to the accumulation of peripheral references attributed to the 'Global South', for instance by suspending the incarceration of area studies which tends to subsume any research from and about Africa as African studies, remote from the core of SSH. (lu.se)
  • An Approach to Mobile Grid Platforms for the Development and Support of Complex Ubiquitous Applications. (igi-global.com)
  • Finally, it proposes a progressive, multi-pronged approach for implementing the collaborative, equitable and sustainable management of transboundary aquifer systems. (inbo-news.org)
  • Review integrated land use and transport planning approaches to achieve more sustainable cities and development. (edu.au)
  • Our evaluation shows that applications developed in FeatureCloud can produce highly similar results compared with centralized approaches and scale well for an increasing number of participating sites. (jmir.org)
  • Build an open community of researchers interested in creating state-of-the-art large-scale generative AI models aimed broadly at advancing progress on scientific and engineering problems by sharing methods, approaches, tools, insights, and workflows. (eurekalert.org)
  • Trillion parameter models represent the frontier of large-scale AI with only the largest commercial AI systems currently approaching this scale. (eurekalert.org)
  • One line of work explores how different factors contribute to climate vulnerability in small scale farming systems. (lu.se)
  • Partners of the forecast-based financing approach include the World Food Programme and the International Federation of. (lu.se)
  • With the inclusion of a wider range of actors in multi-level governance, the influence of non-traditional actors such as Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs) is growing [37,44]. (researchgate.net)
  • By applying a qualitative mixed-method approach, including farm visits, interviews and a multi-stakeholder workshop guided by the Qualitative Assessment Tool for Forage Technologies (QATo-FT), we systematically identify and analyse the roles of the (i) institutional and political, (ii) socio-economic and (iii) cultural factors influencing the adoption and diffusion of improved forage technologies. (cgiar.org)
  • The theoretical and conceptual point of departure is to analyse scholarly communication as a self-referential social system with global reach (Luhmann). (lu.se)
  • It is well documented that emissions from these vehicles are dangerous, especially for young children, affecting their nervous and respiratory system. (thebetterindia.com)
  • Target organs include the nervous, cardio- high H2S flux to airway walls has been previously demonstrated, but a quantitative dose assessment is needed to extrapolate dose vascular, and respiratory systems (ATSDR, 1999). (cdc.gov)
  • Such performance-based feedback can be provided by a recently-developed artificial intelligence (AI) system that assesses a surgeon's skills based on a surgical video while simultaneously highlighting aspects of the video most pertinent to the assessment. (nature.com)
  • To that end, we recently developed a surgical artificial intelligence system (SAIS) that assesses the skill of a surgeon based on a video of intraoperative activity and simultaneously highlights video frames of pertinent activity. (nature.com)
  • Surgical therapy can be divided into three approaches: inguinal, scrotal, and sclerotherapy. (medscape.com)
  • A few surgeons in the late 1800s and early 1900s attempted and described surgical approaches to the mediastinum. (medscape.com)
  • In this time frame, with no ability to safely manage the airway or ventilation, such a surgical approach had to remain completely extrapleural because perforation of the pleura would result in a fatal pneumothorax . (medscape.com)
  • Most of the cases he referenced were from the 1920s and 1930s and, in spite of Milton's previously described work, no reference was made to the use of median sternotomy as an acceptable surgical approach to the mediastinum. (medscape.com)
  • More recently, organizations like the Bay View Alliance [add hyperlink] and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have been focusing on multi-institutional networked approaches to enhancing learning to drive system-wide change. (abcsignup.com)
  • Steven Libman is a highly successful and respected executive with 30 years of experience leading major arts organizations with extensive knowledge of producing dance, theatre and presenting multi-disciplinary performing arts series. (atlantaballet.com)
  • Whatever is the trigger for tion organizations in the region and grammes are active in the Region - but embarking on an accreditation system, concluded that the principal challenges only in the high-income countries. (who.int)
  • While structural reforms are still necessary, they will be of limited value without giving appropriate attention to institutional culture, education and multi-faceted career management.While continuing education for senior leaders and development of enlisted personnel are also important, this paper focuses on the development of junior officers to highlight this critical period when officers initially develop and come to terms with their professional identity. (ausa.org)
  • However, hurdles like integrating with existing systems, meeting enterprise requirements, and cultivating skills around this new technology complicate the development of workable solutions. (meetup.com)
  • We suggest an integrated approach for rural development that goes beyond the improvement of yields, but provides more efficient use of land and labour in the region. (cgiar.org)
  • To improve access to microfluidic systems, we present the development, characterization, and implementation of a microfluidics assembly and packaging process that builds on self-priming point-of-care principles to achieve "ready-to-use microfluidics. (springer.com)
  • Hosted on the InfoSci ® platform, these collections feature no DRM, no additional cost for multi-user licensing, no embargo of content, full-text PDF & HTML format, and more. (igi-global.com)
  • This information portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents on Rural Innovation Systems (RIS). (bibalex.org)
  • Assess the impact of environmental conditions and management practices and their interactions on emissions of NH3 and GHG from open lot cattle production systems. (usda.gov)
  • Microfluidic systems are well-suited for studying mixed biological communities for improving industrial processes of fermentation, biofuel production, and pharmaceutical production. (springer.com)
  • This pre-packaging approach provides a simple, one step process to initiate microfluidics in any setting for fungal studies, bacteria-fungal interactions, and other biological inquiries. (springer.com)
  • Our platform uses a Docker to separate the local acting components of the platform from the sensitive data systems. (jmir.org)
  • Autism Speaks is excited to be part of this impressive consortium and to continue our work with DNAstack to develop federated systems that can help to responsibly share autism data," said Dean Hartley, Senior Director of Genetic Discovery & Translational at Autism Speaks. (autismspeaks.org)
  • In some cases, necessary data do not exist− in other cases, it may exist across isolated systems that are not readily interoperable. (bc.net)
  • We highlight technical challenges associated with each analytical exercise, share patchwork solutions we have employed, and describe some of the opportunities available to institutions that can rapidly link data across their systems. (bc.net)
  • As attested by the session Reaching out with Data: Dataverse Creating a Global Community Dataverse looks like it's a thriving product and would be a good integration target for ReDBOX, it powers the Australian Data Archive for one thing and can be used as an institutional data repository. (ptsefton.com)
  • Early-stage COVID-19 pandemic observations on pulmonary embolism using nationwide multi-institutional data harvesting. (cdc.gov)
  • Through our proven pre-construction services approach, project construction management systems, and design-build techniques, Ledcor is ideally suited to handle the complex projects of the institutional sector. (ledcor.com)
  • The results of which have the potential to resolve the underlying mechanisms of growth and transport in these complex branched living systems. (springer.com)
  • Natural argumentation is, however, a highly complex phenomenon and thus logic should be supported by other disciplines so that the issues mentioned above can be approached in an insightful and multifaceted manner. (springer.com)
  • In view of these challenges, many experts have recommended a whole-of-government approach to address future security threats. (ausa.org)
  • However, the current education system for national security professionals, including the U.S. Army, does not routinely develop personnel with broad-based experience and skills. (ausa.org)
  • In country-specific pilot studies carried out by the respective National Red Cross or Red Crescent Societies or other partners, such as WFP, forecast-based financing is implemented to gather practical expertise required to successfully utilize the approach in a broader context. (lu.se)
  • Even with such resources, training a state-of-the-art one trillion parameter model will require months of dedicated time-intractable on all but the largest systems. (eurekalert.org)
  • Abdominoscrotal hydroceles (and canal of Nuck hydroceles) require an inguinal approach so that the abdominal extent can be managed. (medscape.com)
  • Institutional policies increasingly require researchers globally to publish in 'international' journals, draining local infrastructures. (lu.se)
  • Objective 1: Characterize and improve prediction of ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions from cattle production systems. (usda.gov)
  • Because disease-endemic countries do not have sophisticated surveillance systems that can accurately delineate disease clusters, alternative methods such as sample-based spatial prediction need to be applied to target control programs. (cdc.gov)
  • Bayesian methods are useful because they provide an approach for propagating uncertainty (through a prediction model) in regards to the spatial predictions. (cdc.gov)
  • By applying formation tracking control, swarm system agents can adjust their relations in the state or output space through neighboring information interaction, and then the swarm system can achieve favorable space-time conditions for many cooperative tasks such as source seeking, target enclosing, and surveillance. (routledge.com)
  • The Multi-State EHR-Based Network for Disease Surveillance (MENDS) pilot surveillance system was used to develop and test an electronic phenotype for hypertension. (cdc.gov)
  • Results were compared with independent estimates of hypertension prevalence in Louisiana from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). (cdc.gov)
  • Anticipated outputs include tools for strengthening rural innovation systems through network analysis and pro-poor knowledge-sharing methodologies. (bibalex.org)
  • When we meet in April next year, we must be ready to challenge ourselves, to consolidate our approaches and integrate a range of perspectives on drug issues. (drugtruth.net)
  • It first recalls the main issues at stake regarding transboundary aquifers and the need for a more comprehensive approach based on IWRM principles. (inbo-news.org)