Case-mix systems for nursing homes use resident characteristics to predict the relative use of resources. Seven systems are compared in structure, accuracy in explaining resource use, group homogeneity, and ability to identify residents receiving heavy care. Resource utilization groups, version II (RUG-II), was almost uniformly the best system, although management minutes and the Minnesota case...

Self-compacting concrete is a new high performance concrete with high ductility and segregation resistance. In recent years, construction material manufacturers have focused their attention on lightweight concrete and have strived to use lightweight concrete, if possible, in load-bearing parts of buildings. Concrete with both self-compacting and lightweight properties is favourable in this cont...

The use of polymer in hot mix asphalt production has remarkably in recent decades. Destruction due to moisture in hot mix asphalt is of basic matters about flexible pavement durability. In recent decades different ways have been used to evaluate moisture Sensitivity of HMA which some of them are simple with low cost and some are complicated with more reliable results. In this research the effec...

BACKGROUND To compare the quantitative antibiotic use between hospitals or hospital units and to explore differences, adjustment for severity of illness of hospitalized patients is essential. The case mix index (CMI) is an economic surrogate marker (i.e. the total cost weights of all inpatients per a defined time period divided by the number of admissions) to describe the average patients' morb...

AIM Workload Mixes • Domain Server Mix “typical” for Enterprise shared servers (50 tests) – Email Network routing – Spreadsheets Word Processing – File Transfers Network Maintenance • File Server Mix (37 tests) – different size file transfers (synch & asynch) – network routing security checking – heavy memory use IPC calls • Custom User Mix – varying the mix to model your applications – add C-s...