aces in the audience on the 25th of January! "How to win a house job" is not a subject to which there is a short answer, but rather one in which the importance lies ln the summation of a lot of minor points plus a few more major and more definite ?nes, so I shall give a general factual background and then some more detailed advice. The factual background I decided to obtain from a questionnaire...

Aspect composition often involves advice interference and this is a crucial problem in aspect oriented programming. When multiple advices are woven at the same join point, the advices often interfere with each other. Giving appropriate precedence order is a typical solution of this problem but it cannot resolve all kinds of advice interference. To address this problem, we propose a novel langua...

background incomplete hospitalization is the cause of disease relapse, readmission, and increase in medical costs. discharge against medical advice (dama) in emergency department (ed) is critical for hospitals. this paper aims to explore the underlying reasons behind dama in ed of four teaching hospitals in kerman, iran.   methods this was a cross-sectional study in which the samples were drawn...

Theory implies that employment protection will unambiguously decrease job flows. However, cross-country comparisons of annual rates of job reallocation seem to show that employment protection has no discernible effect on job flows. This paper presents a model that shows that employment protection does not significantly alter a firm’s response to highly persistent shocks – such as those present ...

Yevgeny Seldin Peter Bartlett Koby Crammer Mathematical Sciences School, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia Department of Electical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA Department of Electrical Engineering, The Tec...

Building on Barak’s work (Random’02), Fortnow and Santhanam (FOCS’04) proved a time hierarchy for probabilistic machines with one bit of advice. Their argument is based on an implicit translation technique, which allow to translate separation results for short (say logarithmic) advice (as shown by Barak) into separations for a single-bit advice. In this note, we make this technique explicit, by...

Introduction: Travel agencies may be consulted by intending travelers seeking pre-travel health advice. Travel agents should be equipped to deal with such queries and have access to a source of high quality travel health advice. This study aimed to establish the level of knowledge of travel health risks among Irish travel agencies. Methods: A web-based su...

This review updates material prepared for the UK Government Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters (CERRIE) and also refers to the new recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and other recent developments. Two conclusions from CERRIE were that ICRP should clarify and elaborate its advice on the use of its dose quantities, equivalent ...

BACKGROUND Adults are advised to wear sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 15 or higher, apply it up to 30 minutes before sun exposure, and reapply it after 2 hours to reduce exposure to ultraviolet radiation in sunlight for the prevention of skin cancer. OBJECTIVE This study investigated the extent to which adults comply with sunscreen advice. METHODS A survey was conducted with...