Shortage and maldistribution of the health workforce has remained an important concern for health systems in many countries.1-3 In Thailand, different government interventions and efforts mostly through increasing production from major medical schools were successively put in place over the second half of 20th century mainly to address rural-urban uneven distribution and internal brain drain.4 ...

An experimental investigation was implemented to determine the capacity degradation due to non-uniform refrigerant and air flow distributions, and to assess the potential to recover the lost capacity via controlling refrigerant distribution between individual refrigerant circuits. The tests were performed on a three-circuit, threedepth-row, finned-tube evaporator. Refrigerant inlet quality, exi...

The United States faces the simultaneous challenges of improving health care access and balancing the specialty and geographic distribution of physicians. A 2014 Institute of Medicine report recommended significant changes in Medicare graduate medical education (GME) funding, to incentivize innovation and increase accountability for meeting national physician workforce needs. Annually, nearly $...

Arterial hypoxemia was common in 53 patients following acute myocardial infarction. It was most marked in patients with evidence of left ventricular failure. Arterial oxygen tension, however, was reduced in many of the patients who were without evidence of failure. An increase in arterial oxygen tension following three deep breaths suggested maldistribution of ventilation. Right-to-left shuntin...

This paper puts forward one kind of air-fuel ratio control method with PI controller. With the help of MATLAB/SIMULINK software, the mathematical model of air-fuel ratio control system for distributorless CNG engine is constructed. The objective is to maintain cylinder-to-cylinder air-fuel ratio at a prescribed set point, determined primarily by the state of the ThreeWay-Catalyst (TWC), so that...

Accessibility and ease of internet, together with availability of relatively inexpensive digital recording and storage devices has created an environment where duplication, unauthenticated use and maldistribution of digital content has become very easy. This also facilitates unauthorized use, misappropriation, misrepresentation. Thus authentication of multimedia contents (such as image, video, ...

Carriers of completely balanced chromosomal translocations have all necessary genetic information. Nevertheless, because of the possibility of maldistribution during gametogenesis, they are at increased risk for infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth or having a child with congenital anomalies including mental retardation. As postnatal clinical reports are infrequent, prediction of clinical cours...

The thermal performance of fin-and-tube heat exchangers (HX) is a crucial aspect in multitude applications and fields; several design operational parameters influence this performance. This study focuses on the issue flow maldistribution its effect HX For purpose, an experimental setup designed implemented to emulate conditions under which automotive exchanger operates regard non-uniform upstre...

In the 10 years since Lancet Commission on Education of Health Professionals for 21st Century suggested changes necessary to transform medical education, United States remains plagued by shortages physicians and maldistribution physician workforce. Minoritized rural communities usually suffer most, with widely documented health disparities across race, ethnicity, gender identity, zip code. Medi...