The EQ-5D-3L value set can be estimated using the TTO method in the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic Singapore. Although the estimation precision is not optimal, the health-state preference values generated in this study are useful to health service researchers in the country before estimates with...

Different lead-time time trade-off variants should be carefully studied in order to achieve the best measurement of health-state values using this new method. </AbstractSection> Copyright The Author(s) 2013

The English version of the KDQOL-36 appears to be reliable and valid to measure quality of life for haemodialysis patients in Singapore. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013

It appears that diabetes and its complications affect patients’ valuation of health states. Hence, the EQ-5D-3L health-state values based on the general population may underestimate the utility of health interventions for T2DM. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

We present the numerical excitation operator method for studying the real time dynamics of a small interacting quantum system coupled to a non-interacting fermionic reservoir by iteratively solving the Heisenberg equation of motion with the help of excitation operators. We apply this method to...

type="main" xml:id="rssb12033-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>We consider the problem of estimating multiple related Gaussian graphical models from a high dimensional data set with observations belonging to distinct classes. We propose the joint graphical lasso, which borrows strength across the classes to...</p>