T H E EXPERIENCE-RATING provisions of 50 State unemployment insurance laws operated during 1947 to reduce by almost half the amount that would have been collectible at the standard tax rate. War-risk contributions, which in 1943, 1944, and 1945 had counteracted the experience-rating reductions to some extent, were not payable in 1947. In 1946, the year for which information is at hand, warrisk ...

We describe a methodology of rating the influence of a Twitter account in this famous microblogging service. We then evaluate it over real accounts, under the belief that influence is not only a matter of quantity (amount of followers), but also a mixture of quality measures that reflect interaction, awareness, and visibility in the social sphere. The authors of this paper have created “Influen...

Evaluation of the performance of electro-optical payload within the laboratory is discussed. This method is valid for the system, which has output in the form of electrical signal though the input is optical in nature. The methodology enables the evaluation of entire configuration of electro-optical payload comprising of lens system, photo detecting device (one or two dimension array) and proce...

The most commonly used tool for self-report of pruritus intensity is the visual analogue scale (VAS). Similar tools are the numerical rating scale (NRS) and verbal rating scale (VRS). In the present study, initiated by the International Forum for the Study of Itch assessing reliability of these tools, 471 randomly selected patients with chronic itch (200 males, 271 females, mean age 58.44 years...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have explored the effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine in the treatment of migraine but there is no documented investigation of the effectiveness of yoga therapy for migraine management. OBJECTIVES To investigate the effectiveness of holistic approach of yoga therapy for migraine treatment compared to self-care. DESIGN A randomized controlled t...