Four years ago, the Council of the ERA-EDTA took the wise decision to publish a sister journal to Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation. The goal was to issue a bimonthly educational publication for young as well as seasoned nephrologists. Following some brainstorming, the title of the new journal was chosen as ‘NDT Plus’. It was indeed a ‘Plus’ that soon attracted a soaring number of submissio...

This paper introduces two virtual Decision Making Units (DMUs) called ideal point and anti-ideal point, Then calculates distances of each DMU to the ideal and anti-ideal point. The two distinctive distances are combined to form a comprehensive index called the relative closeness (RC) just like the TOPSIS approach. The RC index is used as an overall ranking for all the DMUs. Then, this method co...

focus of narration is the perspective on which the author or narrator looks at his story. analysis of “focus of narration” and narrative techniques get an important role to discover consistent and accurate narrative structure in fiction. the gerard genette¢s theory of “narrative focus” is one of the techniques through which one can understand the ability of an author to form and shape his work’...