Although some scholars report that all students are better served by attending more prestigious postsecondary institutions, others have argued that students are better off attending colleges where they are about average in terms of academic ability and suffer worse outcomes if they attend a school “out of their league” at which they are “overmatched.” The latter argument is most frequently depl...

This 15-month prospective study of admissions to a children's ward found imported infections in 58 children (1.3% of admissions), aged between two months and 15 years. Most had visited the Indian subcontinent 14 (1-341) days earlier. Few had taken preventative measures. The commonest infection was malaria (n = 23).

Using McMullen’s rational surface automorphisms, we construct projective rational manifolds of higher dimension admitting automorphisms of positive entropy with arbitrarily high number of Siegel disks and those with exactly one Siegel disk.

We show that every knot type admits a pair of diagrams that cannot be made identical without using Reidemeister Ω2-moves. We also show that our proof is compatible with known results for the other move types, in the sense that every knot type admits a pair of diagrams that cannot be made identical without using all of the move types.

In this article, the author describes the development of a medical admissions unit. He also highlights the introduction of an advanced nurse practitioner role and the contribution this has made to raising the quality of patient care.

A central principle underlying government policy is to help people maintain their independence in their own homes for as long as possible. In particular, there has been a long-standing policy to reduce admissions to care homes. Extra care housing is a development of sheltered housing that aims to meet the housing, care and support needs of older people, while helping them to maintain their inde...

A new method of metric space investigation, based on classification of its finite subspaces, is suggested. It admits to derive information on metric space properties which is encoded in metric. The method describes geometry in terms of only metric. It admits to remove constraints imposed usually on metric (the triangle axiom and nonnegativity of the squared metric), and to use the metric space ...

We classify and study trigonal curves in Hirzebruch surfaces admitting dihedral Galois coverings. As a consequence, we obtain certain restrictions on the fundamental group of a plane curve D with a singular point of multiplicity (deg D−3).

BACKGROUND Attempts have been made to improve the efficiency of in-patient acute care. A novel method has been the development of a 'triage system' in which patients are assessed on admission to develop plans for discharge or transfer to an in-patient ward. AIMS To compare a triage admission system with a traditional system. METHOD Length of stay and readmission data for all admissions in a...