OBJECTIVES To measure general practitioners' intentions to quit direct patient care, to assess changes between 1998 and 2000, and to investigate associated factors, notably job satisfaction. DESIGN Analysis of national postal surveys conducted in 1998 and 2001. SETTING England. PARTICIPANTS 1949 general practitioner principals, of whom 790 were surveyed in 1998 and 1159 in 2001. MAIN OU...

The " Sudden Stop " phenomenon of the recurrent emerging markets crises of the last ten years is one of the key questions facing International Macroeconomics. Sudden Stops are defined by unusually large recessions marked by: sharp, abrupt current account reversals, large contractions in output and absorption, and collapses in goods and asset prices. In Mexico's 1995 Sudden Stop, for example, th...

An innovative school-based telehealth technology was introduced in Hawaii with the purposes of: (1) evaluating students for medical/developmental conditions with educational implications, (2) providing a professionally-monitored Internet-based system of learning/development, and (3) delivering medically-based physical and occupational therapy at the students school. Electronically recorded sati...

The off-axis three-mirror optical system is derived from the classical Cooke triplet or a derivative of inverse-telephoto lens. By properly arranging an internal reimaging mechanism altering location stop, one can create different versions systems. They include very compact configurations and wide field-of-view imagers. Insights into design process, manufacturing, stray light management, remote...