Monthly Archives: February 2017

SIAM Mini-tutorial Recording online

Dear AN16 speakers, this one contains the correct link,

The sessions recorded at the Annual Meeting (AN16) in Boston are now available on SIAM Presents…Featured Lectures from Our Archives

https://www.pathlms.com/siam/courses/3028

You are welcome to link to your talk from your personal web pages and point to the site. You can find your presentation using the search box on the upper right.

We will post links from the SIAM web site to the presentations and will send out notification to attendees shortly. I expect the recorded sessions from the Conference on the Life Sciences (LS16) to also be available soon.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions.

Sorry about the error in the first email.

Sincerely,

Linda

Linda C. Thiel
SIAM Director, Programs and Services

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New VA paper from some colleagues

“Whenever they cry, I cry with them”: Reciprocal relationships and the role of ethics in a verbal autopsy study in Papua New Guinea
HN Gouda, A Kelly-Hanku, L Wilson, S Maraga… – Social Science & …, 2016 – Elsevier

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953616303318

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Using disease projections for workforce planning

Here is a short paper that cites my projections of ACHD cases [link] to recruit docs into the area: https://bjcardio.co.uk/2016/04/growing-need-for-trainees-in-adult-congenital-heart-disease-in-the-uk/

Cool, it’s just what I was hoping the results would be used for.

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To read

Workplace Violence in Health Care: A Critical Issue With a Promising Solution
Ron Wyatt, MD, MHA, DMS (HON); Kim Anderson-Drevs, PhD, RN; Lynn M. Van Male, PhD
JAMA. 2016;316(10):1037 doi:10.1001/jama.2016.10384
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2536076

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Useful beyond CS

Cynthia Lee’s three-page guide “What can I do today to create a more inclusive community in CS?” from:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5UdjOQyUxKreDQxZUlMb0U3SkE/view

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Lorax

I’ve been watching the classic Lorax with my four-year-old. It seems like something is missing from the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V06ZOQuo0k

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Visualizing Uncertainty

Click to access paper_BELIV_evaluating_uncertainty_vis.pdf

Click to access Harrower.pdf

Click to access HoekstraEtAlPBR.pdf

Click to access uncertain-bus-chi2016.pdf

Click to access MacEachren_Visualizing_98.pdf

Click to access MacEachren_IEEE_TVCG_PrePub_2012_reduced_res.pdf

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6654171

Click to access MacEachren_IEEE_TVCG_PrePub_2012_reduced_res.pdf

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