Abstract This study considered three different water quality indices (WQIs) for groundwater data collected from the middle-west part of Bangladesh, and quantitative results were justified with globally accepted guidelines. It compared between Canadian WQI Weighted Average WQI, Mierels drinking irrigation purposes, respectively. The revealed that method categorized as ‘fair’ while model showed ‘...

This Data Watch presents data on geographic variation in medical costs across a sample of forty-six cities, using enrollment-weighted average Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) health maintenance organization (HMO) premiums. Variation of average HMO premiums is markedly less than variation of per capita fee-for-service costs as measured by Medicare's adjusted average per capita c...

A novel, to our knowledge, device based on a tapered optical fiber with a double-layer deposition including a metallic media is presented, and its properties are studied. The main novelty of the device consists of the introduction of a dielectric layer, whereas the systems depicted in the literature are simply metal-coated tapered fibers. The presence of the dielectric layer permits one to tune...