BACKGROUND To assess the intra- and inter-rater agreement of chart abstractors from multiple sites involved in the evaluation of an Asthma Care Program (ACP). METHODS For intra-rater agreement, 110 charts randomly selected from 1,433 patients enrolled in the ACP across eight Ontario communities were re-abstracted by 10 abstractors. For inter-rater agreement, data abstractors reviewed a set of...

A case of immunoglobulin G (kappa) myeloma showed, in addition to the monoclonal IgG(kappa) arc, two kappa chains in the serum. The urine specimen contained 7.75 g of kappa chains per liter. The electrophoretically fast-moving kappa chain in serum was shown by immunoelectrophoresis and Ouchterlony immunodiffusion to be a complex of kappa chains and alpha 1-antitrypsin. This complex, which was d...

In this paper, we propose an arc-search corrector-predictor interior-point method for solving $P_*(kappa)$-linear complementarity problems. The proposed algorithm searches the optimizers along an ellipse that is an approximation of the central path. The algorithm generates a sequence of iterates in the wide neighborhood of central path introduced by Ai and Zhang. The algorithm does not de...

expansion of urban area is a well-known phenomenon in developing countries with population growth and the migration from villages to cities being two major factors. those factors reduce the influence of efforts to limit the cities boundaries. thus, spatial planners always look for the models that simulate the expansion of urban land-uses, and enable them to prevent unbalanced expansions of citi...

For a strongly inacessible cardinal $\kappa$, we investigate the relationships between following ideals: - ideal of meager sets in ${<}\kappa$-box product topology "null" sense [Sh:1004] (arXiv:1202.5799) nowhere stationary subsets (naturally defined) set $S_{\rm pr}^\kappa \subseteq \kappa$. In particular, analyse provable inequalities characteristics for these ideals, and give consistency res...