BACKGROUND With the influx of Australian medical graduates into the workforce, new clinical prevocational training rotations within general practice need to be developed. This study describes the relationship between general practitioner teachers' interest in hosting junior doctor rotations, and general practice characteristics including rural location, size and infrastructure. METHOD All GP ...

The study has four main objectives: (1) to test the correlation between different infrastructure characteristics and crash-rates, and trends; (2) to develop an Infrastructure Coefficient (IC) that represents the overall infrastructure characteristics of two-lane rural highways; (3) to develop a crash-prediction model for two-lane rural highways in which the IC developed is the independent varia...

Based on rural informatization connotation and five essential elements that affect rural informatization assessment, which are development environment, information infrastructure, information resource, information service system and application of information technology in rural areas, This paper designs an indicator system for rural informatization level assessment. Through AHP method, it sets...

The term of green infrastructure (GI) became widespread all over the world especially in relation to settlement planning. Because complexity and multifunctionality concept it can be applied regional rural development as well. European Union intends integrate into several policy fields, strategies. In Hungary during last years, many important GI related strategies have been elaborated. However, ...

For the past two decades, distressed rural communities throughout the United States have been turning to prisons as a rural development strategy. In many cases, communities have competed fiercely for correctional facilities and have provided costly incentives in the way of tax abatements and infrastructure development. As financially strapped local governments are finding it difficult to fund l...

This paper critically assesses wireless broadband internet infrastructure, in the rural and remote communities of WDR in terms of supply, demand and utilisation. Only 8 of 20 towns have ADSL/ADSL2+, and only 3 towns have 4G mobile network coverage. Conversely all of the towns have 2G/3G mobile network coverage but have problems with speed, reliability of service and capacity to handle data traf...