BACKGROUND A significant percentage of red blood cell transfusions are inappropriately overused. This study investigated physicians from the western Galilee in terms of their knowledge of transfusion medicine as a potential reason for red blood cell overuse, and assessed the influence of personal background characteristics on their knowledge. METHODS Data were collected via anonymous question...

Abstract This paper contributes to the recent explosion of literature on epistemological role emotions and other affective states by defending two claims. First, might do more than position us receive evidence or function as evidence. Affective be thought appraise evidence, in sense that influence what doxastic state is rational for someone given a body The second claim evidentialism, view rati...

Thr red colour of many of the soils in the Mediterranean region was the main reason that in the past the broad term “Red Mediterranean soils”, occasionally “terra rossa”, became quite a common indication for all soils in the region (YAALON, 1997). BRESSON (1993) stated that Red Mediterranean soils resulted from a bisiallitic type of weathering with the release of high amounts of iron oxides clo...

In a potentially congested network, random early detection (RED) active queue management (AQM) proved effective in improving throughput and average queuing delay. The main disadvantage of RED is its sensitive parameters that are impossible to estimate perfectly and adjust manually because of the dynamic nature of the network. For this reason, RED performs differently during different phases of ...