THIS conclusion has led the Royal Commission to recommend doubling the existing numbers of doctors within the next 30 years. This is an expensive proposal that is likely to add many millions of pounds to the annual budget of the nation. It requires careful examination. Estimates of medical manpower requirements are fraught with difficulties and hazards. The proposals of the Willink Committee (1...

In the past decades development of information technologies, increased international competition on the free market, globalization and businesses expanding outside of their countries of origin have lead to significant changes in the societies all over the world. All these changes and the world economic and social crisis have to be changed in the demographical structure of the work force, raisin...

Credit scoring has become very important issue due to the recent growth of the credit industry, so the credit department of the bank faces a large amount of credit data. Clearly it is impossible analyzing this huge amount of data both in economic and manpower terms, so data mining techniques were employed for this purpose. So far many data mining methods are proposed to handle credit scoring pr...

The electrocardiograms of ambulatory patients have been monitored over the telephone by staff of the intensive cardiac care unit using equipment in the unit. Telephone monitoring is a useful way of diagnosing transient symptomatic arrhythmias and a reliable aid in supervising the patient's rhythm at the beginning or end of treatment. The doctor has direct contact with the patient at the time of...

A n encouraging increase i n the knowledge of leprosy has been found in traditional healers after training has been given . Evaluation was by preand post-training questionnaires to which scores were assigned. Their role in leprosy care at the community level i s also being discussed . The traditional healer is part and parcel of the social milieu where he commands respect and has an intimate re...

19. ABSTRACT (Continue on reverse if necessary and identify by block number) This study develops a model for measuring productivity in a large scale systems acquisition and development agency within the Department of Defense using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Fourteen objective factors were identified and weighted to develop the relative importance of the primary determinants of produc...