This study intends to focus on the physicians, and to examine the input-output relationships between the medical resources used by these physicians and the quantity of medical services provided by them, in order to analyze the productivity and efficiency of physicians. In addition, by applying the Malmquist productivity index, this study empirically evaluates how the quantities of each physicia...

Reports indicate that weather conditions may affect some symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) but not the disease itself. Eighty-eight patients living in the marine climate of the Dutch coastal provinces scored their pain symptoms daily during a full year. Correlation analyses of monthly patient averaged pain scores against each of 6 weather factors indicated that RA pain associates positively...

From the above and many similar observations in the Annual Reports, it is clear that the most important, measurable guide to the weather of the year in India is to be found in the pressure variations, more especially the anomalies (variations from average) produced by hot weather actions, and before the reversing or smoothing away action of the rains comes into play. Thus dealing with monthly u...

OBJECTIVE Numerous published reports have linked various disease states and pregnancy-related conditions with meteorologic factors such as weather, humidity, and temperature. The purpose of this study was to determine if temperature and dew point affect the incidence of pyelonephritis during pregnancy. METHODS A retrospective chart review of a 4-year period from 1989 to 1992 was performed. Th...

This paper reports on a rough set approach to classifying meteorological volumetric radar data used to detect storm events responsible for summer severe weather. The classification of storm cells is a difficult problem due to the complex evolution of storm cells, the high dimensionality of the weather data, and the imprecision and incompleteness of the data. A rough set approach is used to clas...

Ahallmark of holistic medicine is that its practices take into account an individual’s total internal, social, and external environment when consider ing disease prevention and treatment. The interdisciplinary science of biometeorology studies the effects of weather and cl imate on organisms’ adaptation mechanisms and the consequences of human and natural impacts on the atmosphere. Although the...

The German modal verb wollen ( want) easily embeds reports of interrogative knowledge (know whether), but is reluctant to take propositional knowledge reports (know that) as complements. The difference is accounted for in terms of presupposition projection and a bridge principle relating desire reports and knowledge. The overall setting is a presuppositional extension of Groenendijk & Stokhof’s...

Article history: Received 11 February 2010 Received in revised form 8 July 2010 Accepted 1 October 2010 This purposes of this paper are to: 1) demonstrate an objective overshooting top (OT) detection methodusingMeteosat SecondGeneration (MSG) Spinning EnhancedVisible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) infrared data, 2) produce an OT database for all operational SEVIRI data over Europe and north Afric...

Evaluative bibliometrics compares the citation impact of researchers, research groups and institutions with each other across time scales and disciplines. Both factors - discipline and period - have an influence on the citation count which is independent of the quality of the publication. Normalizing the citation impact of papers for these two factors started in the mid-1980s. Since then, a ran...

Once upon a time, case reports were the primary content of scholarly medical journals. Case reports are still common but have come to be viewed more often than not as anecdotes rather than evidence. And even though David Sackett referred to the important link between clinical expertise and external evidence,(1) the "gold standard" today is the randomized controlled clinical trial. Why is this?