BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to report the use of activity-based cost analysis to identify areas of practice efficiencies and inefficiencies within a large academic retinal center and a small single-specialty group. This analysis establishes a framework for evaluating rapidly shifting clinical practices (anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy, microincisional vitrectomy surg...

OBJECTIVE To study the role of Vitamin B12 as an etiological factor in patients of infantile tremor syndrome (ITS). METHODS Twelve consecutive admissions of children diagnosed clinically as ITS were assessed. Assessment was done using a predefined pro forma to document patient demographic factors, general examination, systemic examination as well as relevant hematological and biochemical inve...

It is well known that the pro forma performance of a sample of investment funds contains biases. These biases are documented in Brown, Goetzmann, Ibbotson and Ross (1992) using mutual funds as subjects. The organization structure of hedge funds, being private and often offshore vehicles, makes data collection a much more onerous task. This amplifies the impact of performance measurement biases....

This document or any other document produced within the SUSTELNET project does not represent the opinion of the European Commission. Neither the European Commission, nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission, is responsible for the use that might be made of the information arising from the SUSTELNET project. Abstract This report identifies the main factors at play with regard to the int...

In the paper we apply progressive waveletcorrelation using Fourier methods to locate objects in aJPEG image. The image is searched step by step. Thesearching consists of three incremental steps, each ofwhich quadruples the number of correlation points. Theprocess can be halted at any stage if the intermediateresults indicate that the correlation will not result in am...