Socioeconomic status and social class are measured with a wide complex range of indicators little attention paid to the impact these choices may have on empirical findings. This research tests whether different socioeconomic consistently predict motivational differences in same sample. Two studies were conducted United Kingdom. The first study (N = 430) examined relationship between income, emp...

PURPOSE This study compared the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) information derived from chart review and administrative systems to assess the completeness and agreement between scores, evaluate the capacity to predict 30-day and 1-year mortality in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, and compare the predictive capacity with that of the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II model. PATI...

The actinomycete Rhodococcus equi is an important pathogen of horses and an emerging opportunistic pathogen of humans. Identification of R. equi by classical bacteriological techniques is sometimes difficult, and misclassification of an isolate is not uncommon. We report here on a specific PCR assay for the rapid and reliable identification of R. equi. It is based on the amplification of a frag...

A response surface methodology (RSM) has been utilized for investigating the effects of speed shelling, melon seed moisture content and number beaters a developed mechanized centrifugal shelling cleaning machine. The machine shells then cleans shelled from other impurities. experiment was based on central composite rotatable design (CCRD). results experiments revealed that highest efficiency 88...