In this paper, it is argued that after decades of a strong dominance of the notion of housing affordability in the housing provision discourse, there is a need to shift the emphasis from housing affordability to housing accessibility. Based on a literature analysis of how the concept of housing affordability has been debated and promoted as an appropriate policy instrument our main argument is ...

This paper evaluates the eff ectiveness of the introduction of a Writing Center at a university. The center has the purpose to provide subject-specifi c courses that aim to improve students‘ abilities of scientifi c writing. In order to deal with presumed selfperceptional biases of students in feedback surveys, we use diff erent quantitative evaluation methods and compare the results to corresp...

As a major proportion of antibacterials used in hospital practice are for surgical prophylaxis, an audit of practice in relation to antibacterial prophylaxis in general surgery was undertaken over a four week period in a teaching hospital to assess the extent to which principles governing surgical antibacterial prophylaxis were practised and to provide a feedback to the clinicians. The extent o...

TO THE EDITOR: The review by Grimes (1) of the history of nomograms was informative. However, his criticism of the “epidemic” of nomogram resurgence was fundamentally unsubstantiated. Grimes states that “nomograms provided speed in calculation at the cost of precision” without providing any evidence that the lost precision mattered. Where is the evidence, for example, that calculating likelihoo...

results the mean age and work experience of workers were 31.39 ± 5.6 and 4.35 ± 2.5 years, respectively. among the exposed-to-noise personnel, 7.35% used hpds constantly; 75% used hpds for only short periods of time (less than four hours) and 17.65% did not make use of them at all. regarding the sound intensity and the level of noise reduction of hpds, among the 112 workers who used such device...

Abstract Background Clinical imaging guidelines (CIGs) have been demonstrated to reduce inappropriate diagnostic imaging. There is insufficient evidence for CIG effectiveness in Africa. We assessed the of CIGs training and implementation at Mengo Hospital, Uganda. Methods A clinical audit head CT examinations was conducted Hospital. baseline review 262 requisitions done determine level appropri...

The regionalised characteristics of a sub-basin's long-term hydrological behaviour are used as multiple constraint filters for constraining model simulations in the Congo Basin using monthly time step Pitman model. results suggest that constraints appropriate many sub-basins (≥ 20 gauging stations), but not all. Detailed examination these suggested effects high slopes (> 7%) could increase runo...

Mode-based model-reduction is used to reduce the degrees of freedom high-dimensional systems, often by describing system state a linear combination spatial modes. Transport dominated phenomena, ubiquitous in technical and scientific applications, require large number modes obtain small representation error. This difficulty, even for most simple transports, originates from inappropriateness deco...