LEtter: N.H.S. consultants: progress report.

David Oliver: Unproductive activity and NHS consultants.

With constrained public money, a growing focus arises on doctors’ key role in reducing variation in processes and outcomes and improving value in healthcare, especially how money is spent and what it delivers in outcomes that matter to patients and system efficiencies. Earlier this year John Appleby published an analysis in The BMJ comparing current and historical productivity of NHS consultant...

Progress Report

The goals for the first quarter in the timeline defined in the proposal were to run experiments on ESnet and ANI testbed to capture control-connection packets for file transfer applications, and to design new online flow detection algorithms. Both these activities were planned for the first proposed work item, which is to design new online flow detection algorithms because the Hybrid Network Tr...

Progress Report

Sand fields develop different patterns, such as sandbars, sand ridges, sand ripples, sand dunes, and river dunes. These vary in shape from crescent to ridge-like patterns. They are formed in areas such as deserts, lakes and seashores, where winds or fluid flows are strong and tend to blow from one direction or oscillate. There is a great deal of order in these patterns: perhaps a simple model c...

Progress report.

Progress report.

Interim progress in an integrated family planning and community health program instituted in 2 villages in Tanzania, compared to a control village, is presented. The target villages, in Masama and Arusha China, consisting of 10,000 and 8000 people, and the control village of Kisiki with 10,500 were all near Moshi town. The control village was provided with contraceptives, but given no integra...