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Quizlet was founded in October 2005 by Andrew Sutherland, who at the time was a 15-year old student, [2] and released to the public in January 2007. [3] Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic assessments, and live quizzes. In 2017, 1 in 2 high school students used Quizlet. [4]
The Leitner system for scheduling flashcards was introduced by German scientific journalist Sebastian Leitner in the 1970s with his book, So lernt man lernen. [6] Later, the SuperMemo program and algorithm (specifically the SM-2 algorithm, which is the most popular in other programs) was introduced in 1987 by Polish researcher Piotr Woźniak. [7]
[2] [3] [4] IMS Health was founded in 1954 by Bill Frohlich and David Dubow with Arthur Sackler having a hidden ownership stake. [5] In 2010, IMS Health was taken private by TPG Capital, CPP Investment Board and Leonard Green & Partners. [6] The company went public on April 4, 2014, and began trading on the NYSE under the symbol IMS.
IMS operates repair facilities for surgical and endoscopic instruments and devices in Alabama, Florida, and Maryland. The newest is a 52,300 square-foot operations center in Birmingham, Alabama. This facility is part of a 15-acre campus including a fitness center and 75,000-square-foot corporate headquarters currently under construction.
Interventions in population health "shift the distribution of health risk by addressing the underlying social, economic and environmental conditions" [7] and are implemented through "programs or policies designed and developed in the health sector, but they are more likely to be in sectors elsewhere, such as education, housing or employment". [7]
But because Version 2.0 did not address test-level issues and was not compatible with Version 1, and because 2.1 was still under development, adoption of Version 2 was retarded. This was compounded in 2009 when IMS GLC withdrew the Version 2.1 draft and advised the user community that the only version "fully endorsed" by IMS GLC was 1.2.1, in ...
The International Medical School (IMS) of the faculty of medicine of the University of Milan is a public English-language medical school located primarily in Milan and neighboring Segrate, Italy, with other teaching clinics in the Milan metropolitan area. [1] [2] The school is officially recognized on the United Nations World Directory of ...
[24] [25] IMS Health shareholders received 0.384 shares of Quintiles common stock for each share of IMS Health common stock they held, leaving the split of ownership at 51.4% IMS and 48.6% Quintiles. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The merger was completed in October and the resulting company was a $17.6 billion company called QuintilesIMS. [ 5 ]