BACKGROUND Patient feedback is increasingly important in clinical practice, and this should include children's views. 28 children aged 8-10 years participating in a large-scale OSCE underwent cranial nerve examination by student candidates. They scored each out of 10 for the question: 'If you had to see a doctor again, how happy would you be to see this one?' An age-adapted qualitative focus gr...

• Lower urinary tract symptoms and urinary incontinence are common, distressing, and under-reported. • Active case finding is essential. • The evidence for assessment and treatment in frail older people is limited. • Clinicians need to use their judgment when extrapolating the evidence for management of lower urinary tract symptoms/urinary incontinence in younger people and pay due regard to th...

Approval balloting is applied to the problem of electing a representative committee. We demonstrate several procedures for determining a committee based on approval ballots, paying particular attention to weighting methods that can reduce the in¤uence of voters with extreme views. We show that a general class of voting systems based on approval ballots can be implemented through analysis of app...

Humans can engage in relatively indiscriminate altruistic behaviors such as donating money to charities, giving blood, and volunteering to review scientific papers. They also live in societies characterized by examples of cooperation of unmatched complexity, such as organized armies, the cooperative building of infrastructures such as roads and railways, and tax-paying, among others. (We exclud...

maintenance is one of the inseparable parts of each industry and relations between this part and others consist of many dynamics and feedbacks. by this regard systems dynamic is a tool that can be used to analyze this part. in this paper for a company that produces wire and cable, cause and effect (feedbacks) between maintenance and others part are modeled. after creating stock-flow diagram, mo...