Room for growth

Future GDP Growth in Slovenia: Looking for Room for Improvement

In a companion paper we project that it may still take a long time before Slovenia catches up with the EU in terms of real GDP per capita (see Jongen (2004)). In this paper we consider where there is still room for improvement in terms of GDP growth over the coming period by comparing various indices for Slovenia with those for the EU-15, the 10 accession countries, and the US. There does appea...

Intelligent scheduling for emergency room(ER) personnel to improve productivity

Improving productivity in emergency services and managing limited resources of emergency room(ER) are key challenges for health managers of oil industry. One critical and costly resource is ER personnel  and its lack can lead to long queue of patients. Thus appropriate scheduling for nurses and physicians can help ER managers to  get maximum benefit of their current human resource and reduce th...

Room-temperature nonequilibrium growth of controllable ZnO nanorod arrays

In this study, controllable ZnO nanorod arrays were successfully synthesized on Si substrate at room temperature (approx. 25°C). The formation of controllable ZnO nanorod arrays has been investigated using growth media with different concentrations and molar ratios of Zn(NO3)2 to NaOH. Under such a nonequilibrium growth condition, the density and dimension of ZnO nanorod arrays were successfull...

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Room for improvement

OBJECTIVE To further knowledge of diabetes management in family practice. DESIGN Retrospective, observational chart audit study. SETTING Southwestern Ontario. PARTICIPANTS A random sample of non-academic family physicians and a random selection of their patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Glycemic control as measured by Hb A1C and adherence to recommendations in clinic...