INTRODUCTION Subjective indicators of health like self-rated health (SRH) have been shown to be a predictor of mortality and morbidity. We determined the prevalence of poor SRH in Singapore and its association with various lifestyle and socioeconomic factors and disease states. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cross-sectional survey by interviewer-administered questionnaire of participants aged 40 years...

Objective: By the full adoption of IFRS, measurement and disclosure of fair values become more common in Iranian financial reporting. The present study aims to identify the technical challenges of fair value measurement and disclosure in accordance with the proposed framework in IFRS13 as well as technical factors underlying resistance to fair-value based financial reporting from accounting and...

We show how randomized caches can be used in resource-poor partial-state routers to provide a fair share of bandwidth to short-lived flows that are known as mice when long-lived flows known as elephants are present.

OBJECTIVE This report highlights the health characteristics of four age groups of older adults-55-64 years, 65-74 years, 75-84 years, and 85 years and over-providing estimates by sex, race and Hispanic origin, poverty status, health insurance status, and marital status. METHODS The estimates in this report were derived from the 2000-2003--National Health Interview Surveys' Family and Sample A...

BACKGROUND The present study aimed to determine the most efficient insulin resistance function related to glycemic control expressed as glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients (T2DM). The other aim is to derive equations for the prediction of beta cell functions containing HbA1c as a parameter in addition to fasting glucose and insulin. METHODS T2DM Patients were grou...

The present study examined the relationship among body composition, measures of self-rated health and activities of daily living in a group of free living elderly aged >60 years belonging to poor economic status. A sample of 147 subjects (82 males, 65 females) from Tirupati suburbs of Andhra Pradesh, India was selected. The subjects were divided into three age groups i.e. 60-69, 70-79 and >80 y...

CONTEXT Responses to simple questions that predict subsequent health care utilization are of interest to both capitated health plans and the payer. OBJECTIVE To determine how responses to a single question about general health status predict subsequent health care expenditures. DESIGN Participants in the 1992 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey were asked the following question: "In general...

Fair Queuing was invented to ensure that every flow gets its fair share of the total bandwidth. Efficient Fair Queuing Using Deficit Round-Robin, DRR, proposed by Shreedhar and Varghese [1], reduces the work to process each packet from O(log(n)) to O(1). DRR was also extended to accommodate latency-critical flows. DRR+ uses a timer to police each latency-critical flow, and was shown to have a l...

Zusammenfassung Um unterschiedliche Dienstgüten bei der Übertragung von Daten zu garantieren, muß der ankommende Datenstrom nach der verlangten Dienstgüte klassifiziert und in Warteschlangen isoliert werden. Außerdem muß eine Bediendisziplin vorhanden sein, die den aufgeteilten Datenstrom wieder entsprechend der Dienstgüten zusammenbringt und weitertransportiert. Es wird eine Bediendisziplin, e...