INTRODUCTION There is an on-going debate about what qualifies one to be called a "pain physician" and who can run the "pain clinic". Currently, the discipline of anesthesiology is producing the majority of pain physicians. A literature search was unable to find data for any Pakistani or other South Asian countries with regards to general practitioner (GP) knowledge about pain clinics and pain p...

Switched reluctance motor is a new type of AC speed-adjustable system with high application value; it has lots of advantages such as simple structure, consistence and durability, low cost, wide speed range and prominent fault-tolerant ability. However, it also has obvious defects such as torque ripple and vibrating noise. By researching the related references at home and abroad, the mechanism, ...

Human-environment connections are the subject of much study, and the details of those connections are crucial factors in effective environmental management. In a large, interdisciplinary study of the eastern Bering Sea ecosystem involving disciplines from physical oceanography to anthropology, one of the research teams examined commercial fisheries and another looked at subsistence harvests by ...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine the effects of e-health education content on the attitude of undergraduate health science students towards the efficiency of health ICT in healthcare provision. METHODS A cross-sectional survey design was used. Participants were Health Sciences students attending The University of Sydney. Students were divided into three groups: junior students enrolled i...

The aim of the paper is to present an Open Source Learning Management System for creating courses in translation theory and practice. Some of its most important characteristics are: • Choice of course formats such as by week, by topic or social format • Flexible array of course activities Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments • Full user logging and tracking activi...

Article history: Received 11 January 2006 Received in revised form 31 July 2008 Accepted 1 August 2008 Available online 6 August 2008 This paper considers the problem of model uncertainty in the case of multi-asset volatility models and discusses the use of model averaging techniques as away of dealing with the risk of inadvertently using false models in portfolio management. Evaluation of vola...

Purpose – This paper seeks to present a theory clarifying the negative relationship between organizational unit size and knowledge flows referred to as Gita’s Rule. Design/methodology/approach – This paper draws from the literature and develops a grounded theory. Various applications and propositions are suggested through this theoretical lens. Findings – It is suggested that, as the size of an...

(1) Actually, Mroz paper is very long and provides a plenty of outcomes using various estimation methods. This is so because the goal of the paper was to undertake a systematic analysis of several theoretic and statistical assumptions used in many empirical models. He attempted to address several issues at a time using a single data set, and thus to provide a useful baseline for future studies ...

This paper presents a multiple target tracking system through a fixed video camera, based on approaches found in literature. The proposed system is composed of three steps: foreground identification through background subtraction techniques; object association through color, area and centroid position matching, by using the Kalman filter to estimate the object’s position in the next frame; obje...

background: this study conducted to assess publications of diabetes treatments to understand research gaps and priorities to guide a management map for future strategy of diabetes research in iran. methods: all studies published from the beginning until 2015 in national and international journals by iranian authors conducted in the field of diabetes. this comprehensive search strategy without a...