Moving on: Reflections on time well spent

Is time on first-case starts well spent?

The more time spent on listening, the less time spent on prescribing antibiotics in general practice.

OBJECTIVE To analyse the variation between primary care centres (PCCs) with regard to prescribing antibiotics and to investigate whether the variation can be explained by factors related to patient satisfaction and to socio-demographic characteristics of the populations in the catchment areas of the PCCs. METHODS The frequency of prescription of antibiotics by GPs at the PCCs was used as the ...

Relevance of Time Spent on Web Pages

What is the intention of an online visitor? This is one of the most valuable pieces of information for an online service provider. In the case of a real-world shop, customers have the ability to explicitly express what they are looking for. However, on the web, the intention is hidden and can only be partially revealed from implicit indicators in the traces users leave behind while they browse ...

Reflections on Space and Time

The principles of mechanics are already so solidly established that it would be a great error to continue to doubt their truth. Even though we would not be in condition to prove them through the general principles of metaphysics, the marvelous accord of all the conclusions that one obtains through calculation, with all the motion of bodies on earth both solid and fluid, and even with the motion...

User Behaviour Analysis Based on Time Spent on Web Pages

Nowadays Internet and network related service and content providers try to collect valuable service usage data and process it using different methods to know their user’s behaviours. Heretofore quality of online contents is measured with number of page impressions (a request to load a single page of an Internet site) or number of hits (refers to a request for a file from a web server). But both...