BACKGROUND Regional differences of using home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) as an alternative to ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in hypertensive adolescents are unknown. OBJECTIVES Define if HBPM is an option to confirm diagnoses of hypertension in adolescents from a Brazilian capital with elevated office blood pressure (BP). METHODS Adolescents (12-18years) from public and p...

Environmental law has quietly transformed from a positive law field deeply rooted in administrative law to one that is also heavily rooted in private law and private governance. After two decades (1970–1990) of remarkable activity, more than two decades have now passed without a major federal environmental statute (1991–2012). Whether the appropriate next step is expansion or contraction, refor...

OBJECTIVE To assess medical students' interest in a career in pediatrics following their categorical pediatric clerkship. DESIGN Satisfaction questionnaire to 704 third-year clerks in 5 university medical schools following the pediatric clerkship. METHODS Analysis of the influence of the community office-based experience compared with the inpatient experience, and examination aspects of the...

Abstract A research was conducted among the employees referred to work in home office connection with announced state of epidemic Poland. The using a questionnaire method, study attended by 199 respondents. is burdened an error selection statistical sample units, which resulted from respondents’ involvement and their truthfulness. aim article assess activities employers private sectors Poland, ...

This paper investigates the private returns to colonial offices and how these affect longterm economic and political outcomes across sub-national provinces in Peru. To estimate the private returns to office I use a unique dataset of the prices at which colonial government positions were auctioned off by the Spanish Crown between 1674 and 1751. I first show how the gap between the prices paid fo...

For the last two decades product configurators relying on Artificial Intelligence techniques have been successfully applied in industrial environments. These systems support the configuration of complex products and services in shorter time with fewer errors and therefore reduce costs of a mass-customization business model. The EU-funded CAWICOMS project aims at the next generation of Webbased ...

America’s embattled primary care system is nearing the breaking point. Primary care clinicians are expected to provide continuity of care for patients within an increasingly fractionated medical environment. They face ever-expanding hours with no corresponding rise in reimbursement rates, leading to high levels of job-related dissatisfaction. And while much of the work of primary care involves ...