BACKGROUND Emergency Departments (EDs) are confronted with progressive overcrowding. As a consequence, the workload for ED physicians increases and waiting times go up with the risk of unnecessary complications and patient dissatisfaction. To cope with these problems, Specialized Emergency Nurses (SENs), regular ED-nurses receiving a short, injury-specific course, were trained to assess and tre...

Kun-jiao Zeng, Yohei Doi, Sandip Patil, Xi Huang, Guo-Bao Tian Program of Immunology, Institute of Human Virology, Institute of Tuberculosis Control, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Tropical Diseases Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China; Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh Medica...

4 Wan-li Liu , Yue-hao Lin , Han Xiao, Shan Xing, Hao Chen, Pei-dong Chi, 5 Ge Zhang* 6 7 State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation 8 Center of Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center; 9 Department of Clinic Lab, Sun Yat-sen University cancer center; 10 Department of Microbial and Biochemical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical 11 Sciences, Sun Ya...

1School of Informatics, Linyi University, Linyi, Shandong 276005, China 2Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Missouri S&T, Rolla, MO 65409-0020, USA 3Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Niğde University, 51200 Niğde, Turkey 4Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Agder, Postboks 422, 4604 Kristiansand, Norway 5School of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University,...

In this Comment, I examine Christoph Hanisch’s recent contribution to this journal. In commenting on Hanisch’s essay, I offer an interpretation of Amartya Sen’s notion of ‘commitment’ which makes committed choices both uncontroversial and quotidian. This interpretation contrasts with those which see some of Sen’s pronouncements on commitment to be obviously false, counterintuitive or psychologi...

abstract the aim of this paper is to investigate annual and seasonal precipitation trends of some selective meteorological stations of central region in iran using non-parametric methods. two non-parametric methods including mann-kendall and sen's estimator slope methods were used here to analyze the seasonal and annual trends of precipitation data. some 48 meteorological stations in centr...

Using the most popular measures of inequality and recent statistical data, authors estimate interregional inequalities in Russia. The specific aim this study is to identify well-being indicators, which were calculated using a multiplicative model based on A. Sen extended function. Our calculations have revealed that there significant differentiation social level. environmentally adjusted exhibi...

Slope selection, i.e. selecting the slope with rank k among all ( n 2 ) lines induced by a collection P of points, results in a widely used robust estimator for linefitting. In this paper, we demonstrate that it is possible to perform slope selection in expected O(n·log2 n) time using only constant extra space in addition to the space needed for representing the input.

Given n points in the plane and an integer k, the slope selection problem is to nd the pair of points whose connecting line has the k-th smallest slope. (In dual setting, given n lines in the plane, we want to nd the vertex of their arrangement with the k-th smallest x-coordinate.) Cole et al. 6] have given an O(n log n) solution (which is optimal), using the parametric searching technique of M...

M. Daghofer,1,* Q.-L. Luo,2,3 R. Yu,4 D. X. Yao,2,3,5 A. Moreo,2,3 and E. Dagotto2,3 1IFW Dresden, P.O. Box 27 01 16, D-01171 Dresden, Germany 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA 3Materials Science and Technology Division, ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6032, USA 4Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas...