background and aims: visit quality is a crucial component of patient-physician interaction that its inadequacy can negatively influence the diagnosis and treatment efficiency. the waiting time and visit length are important determinants of quality in the outpatient care setting. thus, the aim of this study was to determine waiting time and visit length and to compare them before implementation ...

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One of the most interesting findings of hypertension research in the past 10 years has been that the cardiovascular protective effects of antihypertensive drugs depend not only on the mean blood pressure (BP) values achieved during treatment but also on the consistency of BP control between on-treatment visits. This was suggested in 2007 by the observation that in patients with hypertension and...

One of the most interesting findings of hypertension research in the past 10 years has been that the cardiovascular protective effects of antihypertensive drugs depend not only on the mean blood pressure (BP) values achieved during treatment but also on the consistency of BP control between on-treatment visits. This was suggested in 2007 by the observation that in patients with hypertension and...

Grothendieck introduced the notion of a “motif” in a letter to Serre in 1964. Later he wrote that, among the objects he had been privileged to discover, they were the most charged with mystery and formed perhaps the most powerful instrument of discovery.1 In this talk, I shall explain what motives are, and why Grothendieck valued them so highly. These are my notes for a “popular” talk in the ‘W...

A system for automatic motive identification of large folksong corpora is described in this article. The method is based on a dynamic time warping algorithm determining inherent repeating elements of the melodies and a self-organizing map that learns the most typical motive contours. Using this system, the typical motive collections of 22 cultures in Eurasia have been determined, and another gr...