Objective Quality improvement of health care requires robust measurable indicators to track performance. However identifying which indicators are supported by strong clinical evidence, typically from clinical trials, is often laborious. This study tests a novel method for automatically linking indicators to clinical trial registrations. Design A set of 522 quality of care indicators for 22 co...

How do we know that claims made by software How do we know that claims made by software engineers are true? engineers are true? Do computer scientists understand the scientific Do computer scientists understand the scientific process? process? process? process? How do we compare tools, processes, techniques? How do we compare tools, processes, techniques? Introduction Introduction " One " One o...

Course Description: The goal of this course is to expose students to advances topics in classical electromagnetism with a contemporary point of view. Broadly, three areas will be considered: Electromagnetic sources, propagation of electromagnetic radiation, and the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with materials. Specific topics include antennas, Lienard-Wiechert potentials, synchrotron...

This paper studies the connection between risk-sharing and organizational form. It models the organizational form decision as a trade-off between the superior capital market access of the stock form and a regulatory or agency advantage held by the mutual form. When capital is expensive, consumers will substitute away from paying investors to supply risk-bearing capital and toward bearing more r...

Alireza Abdolrasouli,a,b Johanna Rhodes,c Mathew A. Beale,c,d Ferry Hagen,e Thomas R. Rogers,f,g Anuradha Chowdhary,h Jacques F. Meis,e,i Darius Armstrong-James,a Matthew C. Fisherc National Heart & Lung Institute,a Department of Medical Microbiology, Charing Cross Hospital,b and Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology,c Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; Institute of Infect...

Stuart J. Connolly, M.D., Michael D. Ezekowitz, M.B., Ch.B., D.Phil., Salim Yusuf, F.R.C.P.C., D.Phil., John Eikelboom, M.D., Jonas Oldgren, M.D., Ph.D., Amit Parekh, M.D., Janice Pogue, M.Sc., Paul A. Reilly, Ph.D., Ellison Themeles, B.A., Jeanne Varrone, M.D., Susan Wang, Ph.D., Marco Alings, M.D., Ph.D., Denis Xavier, M.D., Jun Zhu, M.D., Rafael Diaz, M.D., Basil S. Lewis, M.D., Harald Dariu...

Darius Jurkevicius1 and Olegas Vasilecas2, 3 1 Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Fundamental Sciences, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Sauletekio al. 11, LT-10223 Vilnius-40, Lithuania, [email protected] 2 Information Systems Research Laboratory, Faculty of Fundamental Sciences, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Sauletekio al. 11, LT-10223 Vilnius-40, Lithuania...

Body Size Selection in Acanthoscelides alboscutellatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). I. Entrapment within the Fruit of Ludwigia alternifolia (Onagraceae) Author(s): James R. Ott and Margarita Lampo Source: Oecologia, Vol. 87, No. 4 (1991), pp. 522-527 Published by: Springer in cooperation with International Association for Ecology Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4219729 . Accessed: 16/05/201...

with regard to the essential role and function of topos / place (in comparison with time) in the thinking, acting and speaking of the ancient individuals, it is possible to analyze the inscribed speeches of ancient persian kings according to their conceptions of topos or place. for reaching to this aim darius' inscriptions in behistun (db) will be chosen and they will be analyzed within an appr...