The SARS outbreak during the spring of 2003 showed that any new cases can trigger rapid community and non-social cluster transmission of SARS-CoV. This created substantial health, social and economic consequences. Improved outbreak management requires that identification of such diseases must trigger an immediate public health response. Rapid detection and management of infectious diseases such as SARS and their contacts together with the prompt implementation of the appropriate control measures ...
As the risk of a global influenza pandemic increases there is growing response preparedness efforts within Canada. One question that governmental decision makers have in this context is what is the most effective distribution of anti-virals, such as oral oseltamivir, within the population of first responders, health care workers, administrators and the general public in addition to what extent should the anti-virals be used as prophylactics. To provide an answer ...
The problems in reliability and uncertainty in situation awareness of network visualization can be divided into two components: 1) Reliability/Validity of the presented Network and 2) Uncertainty of Network Representation.
3D visual text retrieval interfaces are currently a fringe topic of interest. This paper suggests that 3D visual interfaces are fringe topics because of the complexity and abstract nature of many of the previous attempts in this area. In order for 3D visual interfaces to become mainstream this paper proposes that they must be concrete in the metaphor they employ, simple to use, and appear familiar to the average web ...
Reports by Author
