BACKGROUND Rates of Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations (PPH) are used to evaluate access of territorially delimited populations to high quality ambulatory care. A common geographic pattern of several PPH would reflect the performance of healthcare providers. This study is aimed at modeling jointly the geographical variation in six chronic PPH conditions in one Spanish Autonomous Community...

Recent developments in the geographical sciences and technologies, namely geographical epidemiology, geographical information systems, global positioning systems and spatial data analysis brings about a unique opportunity to investigate the role of "place" in human health in a scientific manner. The aim of the present communication is to open a discussion about the application of these advances...

purpose: the present study examines the relationship between job related dimensions and job satisfaction of teaching staff of b-schools in india using structure equation modeling (lisrel 8.5). methodology: the study is based on a single cross-sectional survey. in all three hundred ten responses were generated from teachers of management institutes located inindia. a self-administered questionna...

We consider the problems of completing a low-rank positive semidefinite square matrix M or a low-rank rectangular matrix N from a given subset of their entries. Following the approach initiated by Singer and Cucuringu [20] we study the local and global uniqueness of such completions by analysing the structure of the graphs determined by the positions of the known entries of M or N . We present ...

loxosceles rufescens , commonly known as the mediterranean recluse or mediterranean fiddle-back spider is recorded from iran for the first time. the genus loxosceles contains 103 accepted species, two of them (including l. rufescens ) are cosmopolitan. all loxosceles species tested so far possess necrotic venoms, which is a unique characteristic among the order araneae. considering this charact...

in this paper, using the fixed point theory in cone metric spaces, we prove the existence of a unique solution to a first-order ordinary differential equation with periodic boundary conditions in banach spaces admitting the existence of a lower solution.