THE IRISH AND SCOTCH PRACTITIONERS.

Physician-Induced Demand for Medical Care: Irish General Practitioners

In a cross-section study based on a national household sample survey, return visits with general practitioners (GPs) vary with the ratio of GPs to population. Thus, higher physician supply, which by itself would depress physician incomes, is compensated for by higher utilisation, in the form of increased return visits. Return visits also vary inversely with the regional ratio to population of l...

Hormone replacement therapy: a survey of Irish general practitioners.

We report findings of a cross-sectional postal survey of current prescribing practices of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) by Irish General Practitioners from a random sample of 600 Irish College of General Practitioners members. Median estimated prescribing rate of HRT was 17.5% (interquartile range 10 to 30%). The majority of General Practitioners would prescribe for the prevention of osteop...

Distillating knowledge about SCOTCH

Scotch is a software package for sequential and parallel graph partitioning, static mapping and sparse matrix ordering, and for sequential mesh/hypergraph ordering. It has been designed in a highly modular way, so that new methods can be easily added to it, in order for it to be used as a testbed for the design of new partitioning and ordering methods. This paper discusses the internal structur...

Scotch and libScotch 5.0 User’s Guide

This document describes the capabilities and operations of Scotch and libScotch, a software package and a software library devoted to static mapping, partitioning, and sparse matrix block ordering of graphs and meshes/hypergraphs. It gives brief descriptions of the algorithms, details the input/output formats, instructions for use, installation procedures, and provides a number of examples. Sco...

Scotch and libScotch 3.4 User's Guide