W i t h i n the past ten years, the roof rat (Rattus rattus) problem in residential Santa Clara County has developed from an i n s i g n i f i c a n t nuisance to one of major concern. When a considerable number of complaints to the Santa C l a r a County Health Department reported roof rats on telephone cables, a study was made of 29 c i t y blocks to determine the f e a s i b i l i t y of u t...

BACKGROUND This project examined the surgical productivity and attrition of non-physician cataract surgeons (NPCSs) in Tanzania, Malawi, and Kenya. METHODS Baseline (2008-9) data on training, support, and productivity (annual cataract surgery rate) were collected from officially trained NPCSs using mailed questionnaires followed by telephone interviews. Telephone interviews were used to colle...

Abstract Nowadays, spot-welding technologies are being used on a very wide range of applications. Spot-welded joints can be found in many pieces equipment, such as toasters, computers, telephone batteries, or even various pre-manufactured car elements. Given the prevalence technology, there may legitimate need for machine that at home simple operations. Such device could produced more cost-effe...

The estimated prevalence of ventilator-dependent individuals in Europe is 6.6 per 100 000 people. The increasing number and costs of these complex patients make present health organisations largely insufficient to face their needs. As a consequence, their burden lays mostly over families. The need to reduce healthcare costs and to increase safety has prompted the development of tele-monitoring ...

The empirical analysis in the paper finds that, on average, taking on high leverage increases stockouts by about 8 to 9 percent. To put this magnitude in perspective, I construct an estimate of the profit impact of an 8 percent increase in stockouts for the average supermarket firm. The calculation, which is presented in Panel A of Table A1, trades off the benefit of reduced inventory investmen...

Introduction: Telephony has been the great “natural monopoly” of mid-century America. Early in the twentieth century, the policy of regulated monopoly for telephone was established; state and Federal regulation were based on this paradigm. By the late 1950s, there was some evidence that technology could be undermining the basis of this policy, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) beg...

Over the past six years, Holston United Methodist Home for Children in Greeneville, TN, has made a concerted effort to change its culture of care and philosophy of treatment. A restraint reduction effort began in 1998, and a Treatment Model Task Force was created in 1999 in order to move the agency from a strict behavior modification treatment modality to one that focused upon establishing heal...