This study examined a wide range of variables relating to the practice patterns of 692 Ontario chiropractors (approximately 30% of all registrants in the province) who subscribed to the Ontario Chiropractic Association's Patient Management Program. It analyzed the 2000-2001 data of these chiropractors and provided important information on such factors as practitioner and patient demographics, p...

The present study was conducted to examine the impact of cage aquaculture on benthic communities in coastal areas (depth 25 to 50 m) from fish farming operations located along the southeastern Black Sea (Ordu-Perşembe, Trabzon-Yomra and Rize central). Sampling was conducted seasonally from April 2007 to 2009. Sediment samples were taken using Ekman Grab (box core- 0.04 m2). Temperature, salinit...

The problem of measuring scientific impact is considered. A class of so-called p-sphere indices, which generalize the well known Hirsch index, is used to construct a possibility measure of scientific impact. This measure might be treated as a starting point for prediction of future index values or for dealing with right-censored bibliometric data. Keywords— Hirsch’s h-index, p-sphere indices, s...

P roductivity promotion has received a key attention in contemporary macroeconomic analysis. Productivity of labor driven, in particular, by human capital (i.e. health and education), is seen vitally more important. Labor qualities in terms of health and education (treated as flow and stock variables), have a bearing on labor productivity. The main objective of this paper is to ident...

Microfinance sector has witnessed a burgeoning outreach under microfinance institutions model which poses a question on the sustainability of the programme. Even if repayment rate for the major MFIs are greater than 95 %, it may neither be an appropriate indicator of institutional sustainability nor on impact. In this paper an examination on the outreach and sustainability of microfinance insti...

Foot & Ankle International remains the preeminent journal publishing articles on the care of the foot and ankle. The most widely used objective measure of the importance of a journal is the Journal Impact Factor (JIF). The 2012 JIF was calculated by dividing the number of citations in 2012 of articles published by FAI in 2010 and 2011 by the number of articles published in 2010 and 2011 in FAI....

The main objective of this study was to investigate the impact of service quality on customer satisfaction rate private banks Fars Province. Private Banking in the Fars Province, including banks, Pasargad, Parsian, Sinai, Ansar, Ghavamin, Iran zamin, Eghtesad novin, Shahr , Sarmayeh. The study period is the first half of 1396. For ranking of SERVQUAL dimensions including quality of service base...

We measure the impact of “altmetrics” field by deploying altmetrics indicators using the data from Google Scholar, Twitter, Mendeley, Facebook, Googleplus, CiteULike, Blogs and Wiki during 20102014. To capture the social impact of scientific publications, we propose an index called alt-index, analogues to h-index. Across the deployed indices, our results have shown high correlation among the in...

The Discounted Cumulated Impact (DCI) index has recently been proposed for research evaluation. In the present work, an earlier data set by Cronin & Meho (2007) is reanalyzed, with the aim of exemplifying the salient features of the DCI index. We apply the index on, and compare our results to the outcomes of, the Cronin-Meho (2007) study. Both authors and their top publications are used as unit...