background: citation metrics and total publications in a field has become the gold standard for rating researchers and viability of a field. hence, stimulating demand for citation has led to a search for useful strategies to improve performance metric index. meanwhile, title, abstract and morphologic qualities of the articles attract researchers to scientific publications. yet, there is relativ...

Since its inception some 34 years ago the CICB has dealt with over 1000000 applications and paid out over 1.6 bn pounds sterling to victims of violence. The recent changes to the scheme and the formation of the CICA have streamlined the process and resulted in a slight reduction in average payments, but with more consistency in the amounts paid. There is no indication that the steady increase o...

This paper deals with phase II, univariate, statistical process control when a set of in-control data is available, and when both the in-control and out-of-control distributions of the process are unknown. Existing process control techniques typically require substantial knowledge about the in-control and out-of-control distributions of the process, which is often difficult to obtain in practic...

A comparative study was carried out on a series of 72 ice-skating and 57 roller skating injuries over a sixteen month period. The average patient age was 20.5 years in the ice-skating group and 16.5 years in the roller skating group. Females predominated in both groups accounting for 72% of ice-skaters injured and 77% of roller skaters injured. Ice-skaters sustained more serious injuries than r...

In many circumstances, the quality of a process or product is best characterized by a given mathematical function between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables that is typically referred to as profile. There are some investigations to monitor autocorrelated linear and nonlinear profiles in recent years. In the present paper, we use the linear mixed models to account autocorr...

Purpose: The aim was studying the discriminability by ROC curves and gain charts for simple fixed combining of constituent classifiers, for asthma severity diagnosis, and also for bagging and boosting. Material and methods: ROC shows a performance over a range of relative costs and probabilities a priori. Area under ROC curve (AUC) is the measure of separability of two probability distributions...

BACKGROUND Client safety is a major risk management concern for the commercial adventure tourism sector in New Zealand. This study built on previous exploratory analyses of New Zealand adventure tourism safety, including industry surveys conducted by these authors in 1999 and 2003. The aims of the study were to provide a continuation of injury monitoring across the sector through data collected...

BACKGROUND Do coaches' leadership styles affect injury rates and the availability of players in professional football? Certain types of leadership behaviour may cause stress and have a negative impact on players' health and well-being. AIM To investigate the transformational leadership styles of head coaches in elite men's football and to evaluate the correlation between leadership styles, in...