OBJECTIVE To determine work activity patterns undertaken by ED consultants. METHODS A single observer time-motion study of consultants rostered to clinical shifts: primarily administrative (Duty) or clinical (Resuscitation). Direct observation of 130 h was undertaken using purpose developed time-stamping software. Primary outcome was task number and time spent in predetermined categories of a...

OBJECTIVES As a result of gaps in middle-grade cover in the emergency department it became necessary for consultants to work some night shifts. This study aimed to examine the effect of this change in practice on performance. METHODS A prospective observational study was conducted. Staffing and workload variables were collected over a period of 6 months in a single district general emergency ...

w a s t e w a t e r t r e a t m e n t m e t h o d i n N o r t h C a r o l i n a a n d t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s. W i t h t h e p o t e n t i a l i m p l e m e n t a t i o n o f a new r e s i d u a l c h l o r i n e t o x i c i t y s t a n d a r d a n d / o r p o s t-c h l o r i n a t i o n t o x i c i t y r e q u i r e m e n t s , many w a s t e w a t e r t r e a t m e n t p l a n t s o r a...

The paper examines the main issues involved in translating domestic bankruptcy procedures to the sovereign context. It considers some of the principles by which domestic bankruptcy procedures operate, and the extent to which they apply to international lending. Two recent proposals are considered in more detail, that of Krueger (2001) and that of Pettifor (2002). The paper also considers the qu...

This study was conducted to explore university students' attitudes and self-efficacy toward the Internet. Moreover, the relationships between their attitudes and self-efficacy toward the Internet were also investigated. The sample of this study included 1,313 students, coming from three universities in Taiwan. It was found that male students expressed significantly more positive attitudes than ...

Climate change is expected to have large, negative effects on the global economy. Adaptation by individuals and firms will determine, in part, how much damage ultimately occurs. This paper introduces a method for estimating forward-looking adaptation based on changes in expectations about the weather, provides conditions under which public forecasts provide good measures for these expectations,...

This paper introduces my exploration of techniques that attempt to methodically visualize everyday life so as to allow cultural context to be transferred into a comparable and discussible form. Although, everyday tactics are of dynamic flows that cannot be notated structurally, they can be depicted. The visual depiction is formed on an objective and integrated temporal scale structure so as to ...

CONTEXT Estimates of physician supply in the United States have been based on data that may overestimate the number of older physicians in the workforce. OBJECTIVE To compare physician workforce estimates and supply projections using the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile (Masterfile) data with estimates and projections using data from the US Census Bureau Current Population Su...

S e d i m e n t d e n i t r i f i c a t i o n p o t e n t i a l f r o m t w o s i t e s i n t h e E l i z a b e t h R i v e r e s t u a r y w a s s t u d i e d o v e r a n i n e m o n t h p e r i o d u s i n g t h e a c e t y l e n e b l o c k a g e m e t h o d . R a t e s o f m i c r o b i a l p r o c e s s e s i n t h i s e n v i r o n m e n t a r e o f i n t e r e s t b e c a u s e o f t h e...