conclusions our results suggested that many of the designed questions according to the literature’s mizaj identification indices had satisfactory reliability and the final ten-item questionnaire could discriminate the different groups of mizaj, therefore, this can be used as the first version of a brief self-report mizaj estimating scale. objectives the present study aimed to design a prelimina...

CONTEXT Since 2000, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been collecting information on beneficiaries' experiences with health care for Medicare managed care (MMC) and traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare. OBJECTIVES To compare beneficiary experiences with managed care and FFS arrangements throughout the country and to assess the stability of those differences over tim...

In response to criticism over inherent flaws associated with traditional cross window research designs and analytical methods in turnover research, new methodological approaches such as survival analysis have been proposed. First, this study reviews some major methodological issues. Second, using a national sample, this study compares the results from traditional analytical methods such as OLS ...

During the next decade, emerging technologies will help populating the physical space with ubiquitous networks of embedded systems (NES). Programming NES requires new abstractions and computing models since the current programming models are not designed for the scale and volatility encountered in these networks. This paper presents Spatial Programming (SP), a novel programming model for NES. T...