BACKGROUND Adverse events (incidents that harm a patient) can also produce emotional hardship for the professionals involved (second victims). Although a few international pioneering programs exist that aim to facilitate the recovery of the second victim, there are no known initiatives that aim to raise awareness in the professional community about this issue and prevent the situation from wors...

Bernstein estimators are well-known to avoid the boundary bias problem of traditional kernel estimators. The theoretical properties these have been studied extensively on compact intervals and hypercubes, but never simplex, except for mean squared error density estimator in Tenbusch (1994) when $d = 2$. simplex is an important case as it natural domain compositional data. In this paper, we make...

 In network code setting, a constant dimension code is a set of k-dimensional subspaces of F nq . If F_q n is a nondegenerated symlectic vector space with bilinear form f, an isotropic subspace U of F n q is a subspace that for all x, y ∈ U, f(x, y) = 0. We introduce isotropic subspace codes simply as a set of isotropic subspaces and show how the isotropic property use in decoding process, then...

A new parallel hybrid method for solving the satissa-bility problem that combines cellular genetic algorithms and the random walk (W SAT) strategy of GSAT is presented. The method, called CGWSAT, uses a cellular genetic algorithm to perform a global search on a random initial population of candidate solutions and a local selective generation of new strings. Global search is specialized in local...

Many health care purchasers are trying to link health care spending to quality and efficiency through pay-for-performance (P4P) programs. This report examines the current and planned P4P activities of state Medicaid programs, based on a survey and follow-up interviews with state Medicaid directors and their staffs as well as review of related documents. The authors found that more than half of ...

We consider an evolution algebra which corresponds to a bisexual population with a set of females partitioned into finitely many different types and the males having only one type. For such algebras in terms of its structure constants we calculate right and plenary periods of generator elements. Some results on subalgebras of EACP and ideals on low-dimensional EACP are obtained.

Film horor telah lama menjadi genre yang menarik perhatian penonton dengan cara unik. Salah satu faktor penting dalam menciptakan pengalaman kuat adalah keputusan-keputusan kreatif mengimplementasikan unsur mise-en-scène. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dan memahami bagaimana mise-en-scene film mampu mengusik orientasi dunia nyata penonton. Analisa penelitian akan fokus pada elemen ...

BACKGROUND Although international medical graduates (IMGs) are essential in health care service delivery, a gap exists in the literature about how IMGs are selected into psychiatry residency programs in Canada. The purpose of this study was to identify the relative weight or importance that Canadian program directors (PDs) of psychiatry place on certain selection criteria when matching IMGs int...