OBJECTIVES To determine the rate of inappropriate pediatric admissions using the Pediatric Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (PAEP) and to examine variables associated with inappropriateness of admissions. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A prospective study was conducted in the Department of Pediatrics, Farwania General Hospital, Kuwait, to examine successive admissions for appropriateness of admissio...

To determine the significance of the endoscopic classification of gastritis proposed by a working party at the World Congress of Gastroenterology in Sydney 1990, 167 patients undergoing upper alimentary endoscopy were prospectively assessed by comprehensive endoscopic and histological methods. Ninety eight patients had endoscopic mucosal changes of gastritis according to the Sydney classificati...

Online interactive maps have become a popular means of communicating with spatial data. In most online mapping systems, Web Mercator has become the dominant projection. While the Mercator projection has a long history of discussion about its inappropriateness for general-purpose mapping, particularly at the global scale, and seems to have been virtually phased out for general-purpose global-sca...

In the present day, courier is getting more intense. Motorcycles are couriers' preference because they fast and flexible for various types of roads traffic conditions. However, use passenger motorcycles as vehicles not appropriate. This inappropriateness raises problems related to human factor. study aims determine sub-factor factor in issue couriers who by ignoring function vehicles. Research ...

The Internet-based recruiting platforms become a primary recruitment channel in most companies. While such platforms decrease the recruitment time and advertisement cost, they suffer from an inappropriateness of traditional information retrieval techniques like the Boolean search methods. Consequently, a vast amount of candidates missed the opportunity of recruiting. The recommender system tech...

Excess workload in vehicle control and inappropriateness of the common two interaction modalities vision and sound requires to consider ways and means for new interaction capabilities in vehicles. We have investigated haptic force displays for transmitting feedback from vehicular services to the driving person with vibro-tactile elements, integrated into the car seat and backrest. A haptic disp...

Two critiques of simple adaptationism are distinguished: anti-adaptationism and extended adaptationism. Adaptationists and anti-adaptationists share the presumption that an evolutionary explanation should identify the dominant simple cause of the evolutionary outcome to be explained. A consideration of extended-adaptationist models such as coevolution, niche construction and extended phenotypes...

The literature on the diffusion of rural innovations in Third World countries reveals a spectrum of approaches to the diffusion process. It is argued here that the effectiveness of a particular approach in the diffusion of particular innovations would depend on the technical, the economic and the social characteristics of the innovations. A typology of innovations in terms of these characterist...

When the null or alternative hypothesis of a statistical testing problem is a composite of regions of varying dimensionality, the likelihood ratio test is statistically inappropriate. Its inappropriateness is revealed not by its performance under the Neyman-Pearson criterion but by the fact that it yields incorrect inferences in certain regions of the sample space due to its inability to adapt ...

INTRODUCTION The prevalence and predisposing factors were determined for inappropriate urinary catheterization (UC) among inpatients in medical wards. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted including all patients aged ≥ 18 years admitted to medical wards in a 1300-bed tertiary-care centre, and who had a urinary catheter in place on the day of the survey. RESULTS Of 380 patients obser...