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Objective: This study aimed to analyze the cost-effectiveness of gastritis treatment and influence factors at an air force hospital in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.
 Methods: Data were collected retrospectively from patient medical records Hospital Information System (HIS). was conducted August October 2020. Cost data includes total costs perspective (health care) Social Security Administ...

Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is used to detect intrusion and then alert the system administrator about the intrusion. This is what traditional IDS is all about. It is then up to the system administrator to deal with the intrusion. Human intervention is still needed when it comes to dealing with intrusion. This is because traditional IDS could only detect the intrusion but could not, on its ...

Three studies demonstrate that morally praiseworthy behavior can signal negative information about an agent's character. In particular, consequentialist decisions such as sacrificing one life to save an even greater number of lives can lead to unfavorable character evaluations, even when they are viewed as the preferred course of action. In Study 1, throwing a dying man overboard to prevent a l...

We know how important our profession is. Yet we are often frustrated in trying to communicate its significance to our bosses, our board chairs, our funders, the not-for-profit and government community and, even, our families and friends. How we cringe when someone says, "we ought to start a volunteer program" and turns to someone on staff and says, "in your spare time, won't you look after the ...

Network-layer authentication security services are typically pessimistic and static. A conservative IP security gateway checks/veriies the authentication information for every packet it forwards. This implies that, even there is no bad guy in the network, the authentication check is still performed for every packet. In this paper, we examine a sleepy approach, where the gateways normally do not...

The high iron content in the soils and resident parent material of the Georgia Piedmont results in significant transport of iron in runoff to receiving waterbodies. Phosphorus cycling in lakes can be significantly affected by the iron cycle. The work presented here describes experiments to test sorption and desorption of phosphate from Bt horizon soil to help illuminate the role of transported ...