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Introduction: In an effort to improve the Wisconsin County Health Rankings, various mortality measures are discussed, and an argument is provided for the use of years of potential life lost before 75 years (YPLL75) in the Rankings. Methods: The methods used to measure and report mortality differ

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64 + 8 In this thesis the goals were to find and validate a set of categories as self-direction indicators in self-reflected blog posts, to examine how self-direction develops during an eLearning course and to examine the indicators of self-direction to during the eLearning course to see if and how they are related. The research questions were: what are the identifiers of self-direction in students ' self-reflections in blog postings? How does self-direction develop during the eLearning course? How are self-direction indicators interrelated in the eLearning course? This thesis presents the self-direction analysis categories, and the results of using these categories to present the weekly development of self-direction at the course, and the interrelations between the categories. The design-based eLearning course was used for developing and validating these. The methods used were qualitative text analysis and quantitative Paired Samples T-Tests and Pearson correlation. Seven categories of self-direction indicators were created based on theory and text analysis, consisting of 23 indicators. The categories were: “Using Tools”, “Un-clarity and Clarity with the Course”, “Reflecting The self and the self in group”, “Creating Strategy”, “Observed Change”, “Team as a Tool ” and “The Voice of the Writer”. The results demonstrated that the students went from self-oriented to group-oriented working in the course. The

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In the context of our research program we addressed the question whether or not requirements documents contain information about system level properties that can be exploited to automatically create assertions for run-time checks of these properties. In this technical report we define the concept of property template and report details on the studies we carried out to address this question. The results are presented in the form of a catalog of property templates, and details from the individual studies showing which properties occur in which projects. 1

Accepted (Day Month Year) Communicated by (xxxxxxxxxx) In this paper, we explain why, in our opinion, logic and constructive mathematics are playing – and should play – an important role in the design, understanding, and analysis of unconventional computation.

Revised (Day Month Year) Communicated by (xxxxxxxxxx) The scope of refinable functions in wavelet theory is focused to localized functions. In our paper we like to widen that scope, in particular we show that all polynomial functions are refinable. This may yield an interesting notion