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An Empirical investigation into metrics for object-oriented software [PDF]

Object-Oriented methods have increased in popularity over the last decade, and are now the norm for software development in many application areas. Many claims were made for the superiority of object-oriented methods over more traditional methods, and ...
Cartwright, Michelle Helen
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Granularity Metrics for IT Services [PDF]

, 2012
Many articles discuss the design of fine- or coarse-grained IT services without defining what granularity exactly means. However, this is important to know since the granu-larity influence e.g.
Zimmermann, Steffen, Heinrich, Bernd, Zimmermann, S.   +2 more
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Mapping male circumcision for HIV prevention efforts in sub-Saharan Africa

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background HIV remains the largest cause of disease burden among men and women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa. Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) reduces the risk of female-to-male transmission of HIV by 50–60%.
Michael A. Cork, Kate F. Wilson, Samantha Perkins, Michael L. Collison, Aniruddha Deshpande, Jeffrey W. Eaton, Lucas Earl, Emily Haeuser, Jessica E. Justman, Damaris K. Kinyoki, Benjamin K. Mayala, Jonathan F. Mosser, Christopher J. L. Murray, John N. Nkengasong, Peter Piot, Benn Sartorius, Lauren E. Schaeffer, Audrey L. Serfes, Amber Sligar, Krista M. Steuben, Frank C. Tanser, John D. VanderHeide, Mingyou Yang, Njeri Wabiri, Simon I. Hay, Laura Dwyer-Lindgren   +25 more
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Examining the relationship between malaria burden and domestic spending on malaria in 106 countries, 2000–2019

The Lancet Global Health, 2022
Background: In 2019, there were 231 million (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 186–290) new malaria cases across the 106 malaria-endemic countries worldwide.
Ian Cogswell, BS, Emilie Maddison, BS, Paola Pedroza, MPH, Yingxi Zhao, MPH, Golsum Tsakalos, MS, Joseph Dieleman, PhD, Angela Micah, PhD   +6 more
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Adjusting health spending for the presence of comorbidities: an application to United States national inpatient data

Health Economics Review, 2017
Background One of the major challenges in estimating health care spending spent on each cause of illness is allocating spending for a health care event to a single cause of illness in the presence of comorbidities. Comorbidities, the secondary diagnoses,
Joseph L. Dieleman, Ranju Baral, Elizabeth Johnson, Anne Bulchis, Maxwell Birger, Anthony L. Bui, Madeline Campbell, Abigail Chapin, Rose Gabert, Hannah Hamavid, Cody Horst, Jonathan Joseph, Liya Lomsadze, Ellen Squires, Martin Tobias   +14 more
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TRECVID 2010 – An overview of the goals, tasks, data, evaluation mechanisms, and metrics [PDF]

, 2010
The Text Retrieval Conference’s (TREC’s) Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID) 2010 was a TREC-style video analysis and retrieval evaluation, the goal of which remains to promote progress in content-based exploitation of digital video via open, metrics ...
Over, Paul, Kraaij, Wessel, Quenot, G., Awad, George M., Fiscus, Jon, Fiscus, Jonathan, Michel, Martial, Quénot, Georges, F. Smeaton, Alan, Fiscus, J., Kraaij, W., Smeaton, A.F., Awad, George, Smeaton, Alan, F., Over, P., Antonishek, Brian, Antonishek, B., Smeaton, Alan F., Awad, G., Michel, M.   +19 more
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Results-based aid with lasting effects: sustainability in the Salud Mesoamérica Initiative

Globalization and Health, 2018
Background The Salud Mesoamérica Initiative is a public-private partnership aimed at reducing maternal and child morbidity and mortality for the poorest populations in Central America and the southernmost state of Mexico.
Charbel El Bcheraoui, Aruna M Kamath, Emily Dansereau, Erin B Palmisano, Alexandra Schaefer, Bernardo Hernandez, Ali H Mokdad   +6 more
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Factors associated with the disbursements of development assistance for health in low-income and middle-income countries, 2002–2017

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Introduction In 2017, development assistance for health (DAH) comprised 5.3% of total health spending in low-income countries. Despite the key role DAH plays in global health-spending, little is known about the characteristics of assistance that may be ...
Angela E Micah, Golsum Tsakalos, Joseph Dieleman, Modhurima Moitra, Ian Cogswell, Emilie Maddison, Kyle Simpson, Hayley Stutzman   +7 more
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Learning labelled dependencies in machine translation evaluation [PDF]

, 2009
Recently novel MT evaluation metrics have been presented which go beyond pure string matching, and which correlate better than other existing metrics with human judgements.
He, Yifan, Way, Andy
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Mortality from tetanus between 1990 and 2015: findings from the global burden of disease study 2015

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background Although preventable, tetanus still claims tens of thousands of deaths each year. The patterns and distribution of mortality from tetanus have not been well characterized.
Hmwe H. Kyu, John Everett Mumford, Jeffrey D. Stanaway, Ryan M. Barber, Jamie R. Hancock, Theo Vos, Christopher J. L. Murray, Mohsen Naghavi   +7 more
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