Introduction In its efforts to strengthen the rural public health system, the National Rural Health Mission had to address the challenge of getting skilled health care providers to work in rural and remote areas. Learning from states, which had some measure of success with incentives for doctors in such areas, the central government decided to launch a scheme to provide these incentives to stat...

Bioethics is dominated by an emphasis on rule making and quandary solving. Teaching and research in ethics often focuses upon dramatic, controversial issues at the margins of life and death. Much less attention is given to the relationship between moral reflection and the ethos of place. Medical facilities, however, are moral worlds. To discuss the ethos of place is to focus on the character or...

Pseudoloma neurophilia (Microsporidia) is the most common pathogen detected in zebrafish (Danio rerio) from research facilities. The parasite infects the central nervous system and muscle and may be associated with emaciation and skeletal deformities. However, many fish exhibit subclinical infections. Another microsporidium, Pleistophora hyphessobryconis, has recently been detected in a few zeb...

D istributed multimedia systems for remote instrumentation aim to provide access to facilities for collaborative research. 1-3 The enabling technologies for these systems include a human-machine interface, shared visualization environment, and the required communication infrastructure. The impact of such capabilities is twofold: They extend and enhance the use of scarce resources and provide av...

Given a graph G with n vertices and k players, each of which is placing a facility on one of the vertices of G, we define the score of the ith player to be the number of vertices for which, among all players, the facility placed by the ith player is the closest. A placement is balanced if all players get roughly the same score. A graph is balanced if all placements on it are balanced. Viewing b...

This study provides a comprehensive review of California’s system of school facility finance. Along with describing that system, it examines the state’s investment over time and provides an analysis of the relationship between the revenues available to school districts and various district characteristics. The study attempts to answer five broad questions related to the way California finances ...

PURPOSE To understand the current state of breast cancer management in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS We conducted an anonymous online survey of breast cancer management among African Organization for Research and Treatment in Cancer (AORTIC) members by using a 42-question structured questionnaire in both English and French in 2013. RESULTS Twenty members from 19 facilities in 14 countries res...

The current state of information representation in the AEC community leaves much to be desired, yet much can be learned from it. It is important not to lose the accumulated knowledge of many years in the construction industry; however, a new representation is needed, to take advantage of the myriad of computer applications which are being used in the industry today. By examining the semantic ne...

For some years contributions about radiation exposures at radar facilities or radar devices of the German armed forces were published in the German media. A lot of Soldiers or other specialised workers who dealt with these devices before 1975 claimed their diseases as been caused by the radiation. In most of the cases and the resulting reports it is not distinguished between the high frequency ...