BACKGROUND There is wide variation in referral for kidney transplant and preemptive kidney transplant (PKT). Patient characteristics such as age, race, sex and geographic location have been cited as contributing factors to this disparity. We hypothesize that the characteristics of nephrologists interplay with the patients' characteristics to influence the referral decision. In this study, we us...

There has been no systematic research of the characteristics of the universities and academic researchers that seem to have contributed most to industrial innovation. This article assesses the emerging 'technology transfer' in academic goals as a factor which could affect the economic problem. Transferring of science, technology and graduated student from university to industry have studied as ...

The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference and associated website of recorded conference presentations (TED Talks) is a highly successful disseminator of science-related videos, claiming over a billion online views. Although hundreds of scientists have presented at TED, little information is available regarding the presenters, their academic credentials, and the impact of TED Talks ...

37 Abstract— Educational Data mining is a recent trend where data mining methods are experimented for the improvement of student performance in academics. The work describes the mining of higher education urban and rural students’ related attributes such as improvement, behavior, attitude and relationship. The data were collected from Dr.Ambedkar Government Arts College in terms of the mentione...

Associations among family process variables, individual characteristics, and academic achievement were examined in a sample of 2321 seventh to twelfth grade high school students. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), the present study investigated the direct and indirect associations among social-cultural variables, parent individual characteristics...

earnings inequality in particular has been central to scholarly investigation because monetary resources serve as a basis for other resources, such as power, authority, and autonomy (Smith 2002). Although sociologists have examined earnings inequality across time (e.g., Maume 2004), place (e.g., Howell and Bronson 1996), industry (e.g., Kreft and De Leeuw 1994), and occupation (e.g., Weeden 200...