This document reports on the enrollment of science and engineering graduate students in the United States in 2000 and reviews data from 1993-1999. Data presented are from the Fall 2000 survey of Graduate

I actually own a copy of Harold Jeffreys’s Theory of Probability but have only read small bits of it, most recently over a decade ago to confirm that, indeed, Jeffreys was not too proud to use a classical chi-squared p-value when he wanted to check the misfit of a model to data (Gelman, Meng

brief summary of recent KDD real-world applications is provided. Definitions of KDD and data mining are provided, and the general multistep KDD process is outlined. This multistep process has the application of data-mining algorithms as one particular step in the process. The data-mining step

discussion is a description of Kirsch’s factorization method for solving this problem. We then turn our attention to uniqueness and reconstruction algorithms for determining the support of an inhomogeneous, anisotropic media from acoustic far field data. Our survey is concluded by a brief discussion

of approaches categorized as qualitative content analysis. We have identified three distinct approaches: conventional, directed, and summative. All three approaches are used to interpret text data from a predominately naturalistic paradigm. We begin with a brief review of the history and definitions of content

We propose a family of learning algorithms based on a new form of regularization that allows us to exploit the geometry of the marginal distribution. We focus on a semi-supervised framework that incorporates labeled and unlabeled data in a general-purpose learner. Some transductive graph learning

term memory processes for intensifying and diversifying the search. Included are illustrative data structures for implementing the tabu conditions (and associated aspiration criteria) that underlie these processes. Part I concludes with a discussion of probabilistic tabu search and a summary

the home and most use child care. In 2001, the latest year with data available, over half of mothers of children under the age of six were employed—three-quarters of employed mothers worked 30 hours per week or more—and nearly all of this group—over 90 percent—reported using some kind of child care. Child

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Elevated serum total cholesterol is a major and modifiable risk factor for heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States (1,2). Reducing mean total serum cholesterol levels among adults to less than 200 mg/dL and reducing the proportion who have levels of 240 mg/dL or higher to less than 17 % are national Healthy People 2010 objectives (3). Age-adjusted mean serum cholesterol levels among adults aged 20–74 years declined from 222 mg/dL in 1960–1962 to 203 mg/dL in 1999–2002 (4). Among adults aged 20 years and older, the percent of the population with high serum total cholesterol levels (240 mg/dL or higher) declined from 20 % during 1988–1994 to 17 % during 1999–2002 (4). In individual patients, a high serum total cholesterol level indicates a potential increased risk for heart disease, but further evaluation of other risk factors and the specific components of cholesterol provide the basis for determining the need for initiating therapeutic lifestyle changes or treatment with medication (5). Low-density-lipoprotein (LDL) is the cholesterol component associated with arterial blockage, and it is the primary clinical target for cholesterol management. High-density-lipoprotein (HDL) may help to protect individuals from developing heart disease. In populations, comparisons of total cholesterol levels over time can show if population groups are experiencing improvement in cholesterol levels, and knowledge of trends in levels of total cholesterol can help identify subgroups where additional prevention efforts may be needed.