An extremely influential American psychiatric manual used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders has been updated for publication in May 2013.
Right now hospital coders use a standard called the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems to classify patients and get reimbursed properly for their care.
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In addition, University of North Carolina researchers are building a database of all food consumed in the U.S. They have created a system to classify 600, 000 bar codes for food products.
Sikkel describes his research in the June 6 edition of Zootaxia, a journal for animal taxonomists (folks who classify species).
Carl Levin (D-MI) reintroduced legislation supported by the Obama administration that will classify carried-interest investment income as ordinary income for tax-reporting purposes.
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If you classify yourself as a hardcore DIYer, you probably sprung for Bug Labs' 'Hiro P' BUGbase way back in the day.
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Billy Graham, for example, long ago opted not to classify his empire as a church, and thus files a 990, in part because he wanted to encourage other religious charities to be transparent and accountable.
To do that, we follow an established methodology. (See Gomme and Rupert 2004 for a justification of this methodology.) We classify the compensation of employees as unambiguous labor income (UL), and we classify corporate profits, rental income, net interest income, and depreciation as unambiguous capital income (UK).
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Opt-in leads are the more expensive type, and I would classify someone downloading the Instagram app as a high-value lead for Facebook.
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Real-time 3D body motion data enables the development of apps that can recognize and classify complex motions such as sports techniques by digitizing your exact movements for immediate feedback and live sharing.
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Then they got researchers at each site to classify the behaviour into one of six categories, according to what was appropriate for their site.
And, the new iPhone may be a platform for social media devleopers who are intent on digging through data to classify your preferences, predict behaviors and fine-tune targeted marketing messages.
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As with the "mass custom" trend in auto manufacturing, information technology and "just in time" techniques make it possible to classify individual voters by income, occupation, religion and favorite issues and build customized appeals for them.
And nowadays, we have so much data with these vast surveys with millions of galaxies and it's just impossible for small teams of astronomers to sort through them by hand, by eye, and classify them.
The food fight over what do about obesity is heating up on both sides of the Atlantic as British official are mulling a ban on some television advertising aimed at children, and U.S. officials are considering whether to classify obesity as a disease as opposed to a condition, which would open the door to insurance coverage paying for treatment.
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