background and purpose: rational use of drugs remains a problem in iran. polypharmacy, overuse of antibiotic, misuse and overuse of injections, short consulting time and poor patient compliance are common patterns of irrational use of drugs in eastern azarbydjan - iran. concerning the promotion of rational use of drugs, this study aimed the effect of educational intervention as interactive grou...

MODERATOR SPRAGUE: Those of you who were here this morning are familiar with the forms and faces of our panelists this afternoon. I am moderator or chairman, and Mr. Dewey Barrett recently said that the position of a chairman is that of a minor official at the bull fight who opened and closed the gates to let the bull in and out. Well, at least like the Portuguese bull fighter we will let the b...

M/O)DERATOR TLOiIs N. KATZ (Chicago, Ill.): Before I call upon my colleagues I wish to make a few introductory remarks. We as physicians must view heart disease in all its ramifications. Heart disease is primarily a chronic process. The problem is more than the immediate alleviation of acute exa(erbations of the disease, involving a temporary sojourn in the acute hospital, or its equivalent at ...

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Gelman’s article is a thought-provoking mix of opinions and creative methodology. I agree with Gelman that the disjunction of models and exploratory data analysis (EDA) in mainstream statistics is unsound. The assumption that models belong exclusively to confirmatory data analysis (CDA) is easily shown to be wrong in practice. Many uses of models, in particular model selection, are exploratory,...

Since wavelet analysis is an effective tool for analyzing transient signals, we studied its feature extraction and representation properties for events in electrocardiogram (EKG) data. Significant features of the EKG include the P-wave, the QRS complex, and the T-wave. For this paper the feature that we chose to focus on was the P-wave. Wavelet analysis was used as a pre-processor for a backpro...

This paper discusses recent developments in the market for agricultural land in Slovakia related to the new law on land acquisition. The stated objective of this law is to protect agricultural land from non-agricultural use. We analyze landrelated data as reported by sellers in the newly established Registry of offers of agricultural land administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural De...

The algorithms discussed in this paper may be used as a construction set to model the stochastic relation of variables. If for a subset of variables there is a domain theory on their causal dependency this should be formulated as probabilistic rules. For other subsets of variables there may be only an unspeciied association that can be modelled by a neural network with hidden variables. The cor...