Online public opinion usually spreads rapidly and widely, thus a small incident probably evolves into large social crisis in very short time, results heavy loss credit or economic aspects. We propose method to rate the of online based on multi-level index system evaluate impact events objectively. Firstly, dissemination mechanism is explained from perspective information ecology. According mech...

CONTEXT The National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners uses the Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) Global Rating Tool to score candidate performance in OMT during standardized patient encounters. To the authors' knowledge, no validity research has been published on the underlying constructs measured by this instrument to date. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether the OMT Global Rating Too...

BACKGROUND Most current triage tools have been tested among hospital nurses groups but there are not similar studies in university setting. In this study we analyzed if a course on a new four-level triage model, triage emergency method (TEM), could improve the quality of rating in a group of nursing students. METHODS This observational study was conducted with paper scenarios at the Universit...

The solvency standards implicit in bank capital levels, as reported eg in Jackson et al (2002), are much higher than those required for top ratings, if standard single period economic capital models are taken seriously. We explain this excess capital puzzle by forward looking rating targeting behaviour by banks, which aims at maintaining rating above a minimum target in future periods. We calib...

Our previous analysis of 2015 Health Insurance Marketplace (HIM) data on plan availability and premiums in comparison to 2014 showed only modest premium increases in many rural areas and increased firm participation in most areas. To determine whether HIM enrollment also shows a positive trend, we analyzed county-level HIM enrollment data for 2015 by geographic categories, population density, p...

<span>Decision support systems (DSS) are useful business intelligence (BI) tools as they help managers in large organizations make the best out of many decisions. Decisions based on various types raw data, models, documents, knowledge, and past experiences. This paper examines numerous criteria decision educational environment. Two effective methods were discovered applied this research, ...