This paper focuses mainly on social aspects concerning trust and network, especially in higher education institutions. Trust plays a crucial role as social capital and is an important factor of social order, especially in countries in transition. The hypothesis that low trust is one major problem of entrepreneurship will be examined. In low-trust environments, trust is abused as soon as it is p...

Emerging high-speed metropolitan Ethernets create new opportunities to save costs when converging data and telephony services. However, connecting GSM and UMTS base stations over metropolitan Ethernets require these networks to meet stringent QoS requirements in the presence of bursty data traffic. To investigate this problem, we have probed ETH’s campus network, which spans the metropolitan ar...

This article explores two neglected questions: (1) Does the relationship between hospital concentration and costs vary between urban and rural markets? and (2) Do hospital costs in non-metropolitan areas vary with rurality? Covariance model results using 1992 data reveal that: (1) Although metropolitan and urban markets exhibit a negative relationship between hospital average costs and market c...

Existing techniques can geolocate an IP address to a metropolitan area. Through simulation, we evaluate the performance of these existing techniques within a metropolitan area network. We identify differences between metropolitan area networks and the wide area network. We describe and evaluate new techniques which are designed specifically for use on metropolitan area networks. We present Hop-...

BACKGROUND Disparities in injury rates between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations in British Columbia (BC) are well established. Information regarding the influence of residence on disparities is scarce. We sought to fill these gaps by examining hospitalization rates for all injuries, unintentional injuries and intentional injuries across 24 years among i) Aboriginal and total population...

children’s hospital in Japan Yu Funakoshi, MD; Ippei Miyata, MD, PhD; Yoshihiko Morikawa, MD; Yuho Horikoshi, MD; General Pediatrics, Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center, Fuchu-shi, Japan; National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan; Clinical Research Support Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center, Fuchu-shi, Japan; Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolit...

In this analysis, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data from 2000 were used to examine differences in reports of preventive health service utilization in 4 types of counties: large metropolitan counties, small metropolitan counties, counties adjacent to metropolitan places, and counties not adjacent to metropolitan areas or with fewer than 10,000 residents. Women from counties with 10,000 or fe...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess the recent changes of radiation therapy (RT) modalities in Korea. In particular, we focused on intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) utilization as the main index, presenting the application status of advanced RT. METHODS We collected information from the Korean Health and Insurance Review and Assessment Service data based on the National Health In...