California, conducts febrile respiratory illness (FRI) surveillance in civilian and Department of Defense populations at multiple sites across the United States—detecting the first 2 documented cases of a novel, quadruple-reassorted A/H1N1 virus (pH1N1) in California in April 2009 [1]. The NHRC's ongoing febrile respiratory illness surveillance at US military recruit training centers [2] throug...

The success of the Internet retailer Amazon.com depends on its providing high-quality customer service. Amazon.com’s customer service operations consist of internally and externally managed contact centers. Amazon.com must size its contact centers appropriately, deciding about hiring and training at internally managed centers, and the volume of voice calls and e-mail messages to allocate to ext...

Background: Maintaining and promoting work ability is an important social objective and are challenges facing the health care and rehabilitation system, as well as employers. Physical and mental health status impact on work ability. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of aerobic training on work ability midwives to work in health care centers in the city of Mashhad. Materials and M...

BACKGROUND Simulation-based-training (SBT) in the education of health professionals is discussed as an effective alternative for knowledge and skills enhancement as well as for the establishment of a secure learning environment, for learners and patients. In the Anglo-American region, SBT and simulation and training centers (STC) are numbered as standard for medical training. In German-speaking...

The behavior of Radial Basis Function (RBF) Networks greatly depends on how the center points of the basis functions are selected. In this work we investigate the use of instance reduction techniques, originally developed to reduce the storage requirements of instance based learners, for this purpose. Five Instance-Based Reduction Techniques were used to determine the set of center points, and ...

INTRODUCTION The people's mental, intellectual and physical non-readiness to confront earthquake may result in disastrous outcomes. This research aimed to study of effects of a training intervention on health connector's knowledge regarding their approach to earthquake in health-training centers in East of Tehran. METHODS This research which is a semi-experimental study was designed and execu...

Clinical investigators often preprocess, process, and analyze their data without benefit of formally organized research centers to oversee data management. This article outlines a practical three-file structure to help guide these investigators track and document their data through processing and analyses. The proposed process can be implemented without additional training or specialized softwa...