BACKGROUND Women with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) tend to have longer treatment delays than men. This may partly be due to women delaying calling for help, difficulties for the emergency medical communication (EMC) service in interpreting a different constellation of presenting symptoms than men, or gender-specific ambulance delays due to differences in the management by the EMC ...

We estimate a mixed logit demand model for the Japanese digital content market and measure willingness to pay for service attributes. We find that the willingness to pay for an extra unit of service quality ranges from 62 Yen to 83 Yen per month. Meanwhile, the switching cost, a measure of disutility from switching to other service providers is estimated as 340 Yen ($3) per month, which is appr...

Introduction: Development of Complementary Health Insurance (CHI) benefit packages has always been one of the main challenges of Health Insurance Organizations in Iran. Records related to developing a health insurance package in Iran show that there is no specific criterion for developing such packages.  This study aimed at developing criteria for providing CHI benefit packages...

Web integrated library system performance is important to evaluate as it used in managing activities and holds millions of records. To have an effective web for staff, essential the offer high quality systems, service, usage Internet. This study presents a perception on success factors (system quality, service Internet quality) its relationships with job satisfaction. Questionnaires was distrib...

Background: Impacted tooth is common in dental practice. Dentists usually remove them if they are associated with any pathologic sign or symptom. The challenge is whether to extract the asymptomatic tooth or not. This study was conducted to determine the association between developmental odontogenic cysts and tumors and impacted and unerupted teeth, if left untreated.    Methods: In ...

To illustrate the Reactor pattern, consider the event-driven server for a distributed logging service shown in Figure 1. Client applications use this service to log information (such as error notifications, debugging traces, and status updates) in a distributed environment. In this service, logging records are sent to a central logging server. The logging server outputs the logging records to a...

this paper focus on the impact on the performance of health workers at village and township levels in the provision of a government stipulated package of basic public health service, which adopted the performance-related contracts mode.the concept of balanced scorecard was adopted and developed to gather the 11 evaluation indicators distributed in four quadrants. these were implemented using on...