Manifesting individuality as a Heideggerian approach to Toni Morrison\u27s Trilogy .

Within our self-defining quest to create and uncreate ourselves and our place in the world is a discourse that encompasses both our life and our literature

Some characteristics of the resultant air flow from motions induced by ventilation and heat source in a two-dimensional enclosure

Ventilated air flow in an enclosure is often unsteady (turbulent) at even very low Reynolds number (Re). Meantime natural convection in a box is stationary motion at large enough Rayleigh number (Ra). This paper deals with the interaction between two those flows in a two-dimensional room. The room has one inlet and one or two outlets. A heat source locates on the floor. The numerical simulation of the interaction is carried out at some values of Re and Ra for two cases of the inlet and outlet configuration. Some interesting characteristics of the resultant flow are discovered. The heat amount released by the source and removed from the room by different types of this flow is also provided

Employment opportunities for Vietnamese American fisherfolk affected by the BP gulf oil spill in Louisiana

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-65).This thesis explores potential employment opportunities in energy efficiency construction and aquaculture for Vietnamese American fisherfolk significantly impacted by the BP oil spill in Louisiana. First, the thesis explains the history of the Vietnamese American community in Louisiana and the affects of Hurricane Katrina as well as the BP oil spill on the community. This is done in order to build the case for the need to look for alternative employment for dislocated Vietnamese American fisherfolk. Second, it assesses the skills and job suitability for Vietnamese American dislocated fisherfolk. It then explores the potential growth of the energy efficiency construction and aquaculture industries in Louisiana. Finally, the thesis concludes with recommendations for how Vietnamese American fisherfolk can enter these industries and how Mary Queen of Vietnam Community Development Corporation can further explore future employment opportunities for dislocated Vietnamese American fisherfolk.by Mai T. Dang.M.C.P

The determinants of liquidity risk of commercial banks in Vietnam

This research identifies factors that explain the liquidity of commercial banks in the Vietnam banking system from 2010 to 2015. Using the OLS regression method for analysis, it was found that: the interbank market helps commercial banks improve their liquidity; the larger the loan size, the higher the liquidity risk; good credit risk management has a positive impact on liquidity risk management; and long-term interest rate is negatively related to the liquidity of commercial banks. The research also makes recommendations on liquidity risk management policies to banks and policy-makers from the Government and the State Bank of Vietnam

Towards Measuring the Food Quality of Grocery Purchases: An Estimation Model of the Healthy Eating Index-2010 Using only Food Item Counts

AbstractMeasuring the quality of food consumed by individuals or groups in the U.S. is essential to informed public health surveillance efforts and sound nutrition policymaking. For example, the Healthy Eating Index-2010 (HEI) is an ideal metric to assess the food quality of households, but the traditional methods of collecting the data required to calculate the HEI are expensive and burdensome. We evaluated an alternative source: rather than measuring the quality of the foods consumers eat, we want to estimate the quality of the foods consumers buy. To accomplish that we need a way of estimating the HEI based solely on the count of food items. We developed an estimation model of the HEI, using an augmented set of the What We Eat In America (WWEIA) food categories. Then we mapped ∼92,000 grocery food items to it. The model uses an inverse Cumulative Distribution Function sampling technique. Here we describe the model and report reliability metrics based on NHANES data from 2003-2010

A comprehensive evaluation of polygenic score and genotype imputation performances of human SNP arrays in diverse populations

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Exploiting the UMLS Metathesaurus for extracting and categorizing concepts representing signs and symptoms to anatomically related organ systems

AbstractObjectiveTo develop a method to exploit the UMLS Metathesaurus for extracting and categorizing concepts found in clinical text representing signs and symptoms to anatomically related organ systems. The overarching goal is to classify patient reported symptoms to organ systems for population health and epidemiological analyses.Materials and methodsUsing the concepts’ semantic types and the inter-concept relationships as guidance, a selective portion of the concepts within the UMLS Metathesaurus was traversed starting from the concepts representing the highest level organ systems. The traversed concepts were chosen, filtered, and reviewed to obtain the concepts representing clinical signs and symptoms by blocking deviations, pruning superfluous concepts, and manual review. The mapping process was applied to signs and symptoms annotated in a corpus of 750 clinical notes.ResultsThe mapping process yielded a total of 91,000 UMLS concepts (with approximately 300,000 descriptions) possibly representing physical and mental signs and symptoms that were extracted and categorized to the anatomically related organ systems. Of 1864 distinct descriptions of signs and symptoms found in the 750 document corpus, 1635 of these (88%) were successfully mapped to the set of concepts extracted from the UMLS. Of 668 unique concepts mapped, 603 (90%) were correctly categorized to their organ systems.ConclusionWe present a process that facilitates mapping of signs and symptoms to their organ systems. By providing a smaller set of UMLS concepts to use for comparing and matching patient records, this method has the potential to increase efficiency of information extraction pipelines