Abstract Climate change effects tend to reinforce the frequency and severity of wildfires worldwide, early detection wildfire events is considered crucial importance. The primary aim this study was spatial optimization fire resources (that is, watchtowers) considering interplay geographical features simulated burn probability delimit vulnerability; topography effects; accessibility candidate wa...

Great teaching value can come from showcasing an unusual phenomenon that serves as an aid to explain how best to approach mundane, common problems. In this installment of teaching rounds, Wakabayashi et al use an unusual activation sequence observed along the mitral annular atrial myocardium that was observed after ablation of the mitral isthmus to teach us about the pitfalls created by the com...

This document is another installment in a series of near real-time weekly influenza forecasts made during the 2012-2013 influenza season. Here we present some of the results of forecasts initiated following assimilation of observations for Week 52 (i.e. the forecast begins December 30, 2012) for municipalities in the United States. The forecasts were made on January 4, 2013. Results from foreca...

This third installment of my tour covers three more distributions that are supported via the standard LATEX bug report mechanism described in Part 1. The mfnfss distribution provides LATEX support for some popular Metafont produced fonts, that do not otherwise have any LATEX interface. The psnfss distribution consists of LATEX packages giving access to POSTSCRIPT fonts. The third distribution i...

methodologies, theories, tools, and systems aren’t ready for deeply, fully, and effectively capturing, representing, quantifying, analyzing, learning, and measuring the semantics, sequencing, networking, evolution, utility and impact of individual, group, and cohort behaviors taking place in the real world. This is becoming fundamental and critical in the age of Big Data. Here, in this installm...

Management Case Studies describe approaches to real-life management problems in health systems. Each installment is a brief description of a problem and how it was dealt with. The cases are intended to help readers deal with similar experiences in their own work sites. Problem solving, not hypothesis testing, is emphasized. Successful resolution of the management issue is not a criterion for pu...

Case Law, a regular AJHP section, is intended to provide pharmacists with timely information about recent court decisions that may affect pharmacy practice. Each installment includes pertinent background information, excerpts from the opinion of the court, and brief commentary. The contributing editor for the section is David B. Brushwood, J.D., Professor, Pharmacy Health Care Administration, U...

In my preliminary article of this series, I explained that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can be split into two rough sections: improving the quality of health care services and reducing the cost of care. With that as a framework, this series provides brief explanations of various components of the ACA, alternating between quality and financial initiatives. This installment takes a closer look a...

n Part 2 of this article (August 2007), we described multipoint (or common-type) supple mental grounding and bonding between the T(M)GB [notation used here to indicate that the bar may be either the TMGB or TGB, depending on the location within the building] and the telecommunications and information technology equipment (ITE) systems. This installment will focus on the single-point (or insulat...

Risk assessment, by itself, does nothing to reduce risk or improve safety. It can only change outcomes by informing the design and management of effective risk control interventions. But current practice in healthcare risk management suffers from an almost complete lack of support for risk control. This first installment of a 2-part series on rebalancing risk management describes a new framewor...