003 Some researchers have raised concerns about significant volatility in init l payments from fixed immediate life annuities and the subsequent inflation risk dur g the retirement period. This paper investigates these concerns using recent high frequency data. It finds that while there is significant volatility in initial payments from no inal fixed annuities, phased purchases of fixed annuiti...

from many other writings on the subject, is its discussion of the problem of evaluating MT systems. The proposed methodology is decomposed into three distinct areas: (i) evaluation by the system's designer; (ii) cost/benefit evaluation by the user; and (iii) linguistic evaluation by the user. This delineation serves as the framework for a more detailed and impressive, though by no means final, ...

This article describes the most essential roles, skills, and competencies needed by middle managers in occupational therapy organizations. Middle-level managers are responsible for a specific segment of the organization. They are uniquely positioned to foster changes in the department. Because of the challenges in the health care environment, it is important to discuss the roles that middle man...

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BACKGROUND Drug utilization review (DUR) programs are being conducted in Canadian hospitals with the aim of improving the appropriateness of prescriptions. However, there is little evidence of their effectiveness. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of both a retrospective and a concurrent DUR programs on the quality of in-hospital prescribing. METHODS We conducted an interru...

OBJECTIVE 1) To evaluate the participation rate and identify the practical barriers to implementing a community pharmacist-led medication review service in francophone Switzerland and, 2) To assess the effectiveness of external support. METHODS A qualitative survey was undertaken to identify barriers to patient inclusion and medication review delivery in daily practice among all contactable i...

It has been a great honor to represent you dur ing this last year, and it is a great challenge to stand before you now. Table I presents some of the multiple titles I have considered for this pre sentation over the last 10 months. I had a diffi cult time, in early August, when I had to select a final topic and fax my actual title to the Sci entific Program Chair, Bill Petri. I originally though...

Historically, all basic mathematical concepts of control theory were first stated and developed in continuous time, and subsequently reformed for discrete time, motivated by the growing role of digital computations and computer use. Although a majority of notions and results for continuousand discrete-time systems are almost identical, these two branches of the control science have been develop...

I HE J. H. Ames School, a labora tory school at Wisconsin State University in River Falls, completes a third year of use of hand-designed modular scheduling this year. Planning and implementation of this mode of education involved 100 students, grades six through nine. Instructional re sources and building facilities available dur ing this period could be considered adequate to superior, but we...

(ISI) in 1987 and received its inaugural impact factor in the 1989 Journal Citation Reports ® (JCR ®) 1). For various reasons however, no bibliometric indicators were issued between 1995 and 1997 2). In this article we present some estimates of the 'missing' three years, so that a continuous bibliometric history for INDUSTRIAL HEALTH can be analyzed for the first time. Impact factors are derive...