Credit scoring has become very important issue due to the recent growth of the credit industry, so the credit department of the bank faces a large amount of credit data. Clearly it is impossible analyzing this huge amount of data both in economic and manpower terms, so data mining techniques were employed for this purpose. So far many data mining methods are proposed to handle credit scoring pr...

The electrocardiograms of ambulatory patients have been monitored over the telephone by staff of the intensive cardiac care unit using equipment in the unit. Telephone monitoring is a useful way of diagnosing transient symptomatic arrhythmias and a reliable aid in supervising the patient's rhythm at the beginning or end of treatment. The doctor has direct contact with the patient at the time of...

A n encouraging increase i n the knowledge of leprosy has been found in traditional healers after training has been given . Evaluation was by preand post-training questionnaires to which scores were assigned. Their role in leprosy care at the community level i s also being discussed . The traditional healer is part and parcel of the social milieu where he commands respect and has an intimate re...

19. ABSTRACT (Continue on reverse if necessary and identify by block number) This study develops a model for measuring productivity in a large scale systems acquisition and development agency within the Department of Defense using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Fourteen objective factors were identified and weighted to develop the relative importance of the primary determinants of produc...

As the supply of physicians grew during the 1970s, medical and surgical specialists diffused into smaller communities. In 1979, nearly every town with a population of more than 2,500 had ready access to a physician. The overall pattern of physician distribution was quite similar in the four disparate geographic regions chosen for study. The data strongly suggest that competitive forces play a m...

Intensive care medicine (ICM) is unique in that it deals with the most severely ill patients in almost all fields of medicine. It is demanding in all aspects from a theoretical, practical, co-operational and personal perspective. It is also characterised by a rapid development in diagnostic and treatment options. Furthermore, the organisational and manpower characteristics of European healthcar...

The Korean Society of Therapeutic Radiology has periodically conducted a national survey on the status of radiation therapy facilities in Korea. This paper summarized survey data on the status of radiation therapy facilities, manpower, megavoltage equipments, patient load, types of procedures performed and characteristics of the patients treated.

childtrends.org “Soft skills” are centrally important for human capital development and workforce success. A growing evidence base shows that these qualities rival academic or technical skills in their ability to predict employment and earnings, among other outcomes (Kautz, Heckman, Diris, ter Weel, & Borghans, 2014). As the workplace has modernized around the world, the demand for such skills ...