BACKGROUND THOR is a network of work-related disease surveillance schemes dependent on volunteer case reporting by medical specialists. Data collection and dissemination has hitherto been paper-based. AIMS To elicit the opinion of existing reporters in THOR on electronic exchange of information and to assess the practical capabilities of the same reporters to participate in electronic communi...

Despite the growing popularity of digital payment transactions in United States, most survey participation incentives are still paid through cash or check and then distributed to respondents potential sample members via direct mail. Though researchers have explored alternative incentives, such as e-gift cards, for online samples, there has been no study electronic incentives—specifically mobile...

Non-attendance reduces clinic and provider productivity and efficiency, compromises access and increases cost of health care. This systematic review of the English language literature (November 1999-November 2009) compares telephone, mail, text/short message service, electronic mail and open-access scheduling to determine which is best at reducing outpatient non-attendance and providing net fin...

Microelectronic Research Labratory of Urmia University i * Corresponding Author, A. Naderi is with the Department of Electronic Engineering, urmia University, Urmia, Iran (e-mail: [email protected]). ii H. Ghasemzadeh, A. Pourazar and M. Aliasghary are with the Department of Electronic Engineering, urmia University, Urmia, Iran (e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], m.al...

It is shown that a physically reasonable spacetime that is eternally in ating to the future must possess an initial singularity. PACS numbers: 04.50, 98.80.C Permanent addresses: Long Island University, Southampton, N.Y. 11968 and High Energy Theory Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y. 11973. y Electronic mail: [email protected] z Electronic mail: [email protected] 1

The recent development of MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) offers a wide range of new opportunities for electronic mail system systems. Most of these opportunites are relevant only to user agents, the programs that interact with human users when they send and receive mail. However, some opportunities are also opened up for mail transport systems. While MIME was carefully designed so...

We use the method due to Batalin, Fradkin and Tyutin (BFT) for the quantization of chiral boson theories. We consider the Floreanini-Jackiw (FJ) formulation as well as others with linear constraints. PACS: 03.70+k, 11.10.Ef, 11.30.Rd (∗) Electronic mail: ift01001@ufrj (†) Electronic mail: ift03001@ufrj and [email protected] 1