Introduction: Medical tourism is a rapidly growing industry that has provided special opportunities to gain competitive advantage over international health organizations. This study aimed to investigate the quality requirements based on Joint Commission International (JCI) for medical tourism in selected hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Methods:...

OBJECTIVE To test the developmental continuity, interrelationships, and predictive associations of the oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) subdimensions of irritable, headstrong, and hurtful. METHOD Data were collected from 6,328 mother-child pairs participating in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (United Kingdom). RESULTS Developmental continuity for each subdimension wa...

In 1994 the Primary Health Care Initiatives Program was established as part of the South Australian government's hospital service improvement strategy. In its first year, the program funded 34 demonstration projects, of which half were concerned with improving continuity of care and discharge planning, and half with health promotion or illness prevention. Evaluation of the program has shown tha...

Internet portals have been using the email service to attract new members and to retain existing customers. This research aims to enhance the understanding of mechanisms associated to users' intention for email switching (IES). We have employed customer's satisfaction on email service, attractive alternatives, and switching cost to explain the dynamics of IES. Customer's satisfaction is measure...

We study the existence of weak variational solutions in a Gelfand triplet of real separable Hilbert spaces, under continuity, growth, and coercivity conditions on the coefficients of the stochastic differential equation. The laws of finite dimensional approximations are proved to weakly converge to the limit which is identified as a weak solution. The solution is an H– valued continuous process...

The polymorphic lambda-calculus can be modelled using PERs on a partial combinatory algebra. We say that the type of natural numbers (polynat) is polymorphically standard in such a model if the interpretation of the type only contains (the interpretations of) the Church numerals. We show that this is not always the case by constructing an explicit counterexample. On the other hand, when the PCA...

Despite the on-set on new divisions, there is a strong case to be made for the view that ultimately Europe is more united than divided. There is still significant continuity with the post-war project of reconstruction and peace and that this common ground that constitutes the European heritage needs to be given greater recognition. One of the defining features of European self-understanding is ...

We consider the allotment problem of homogeneous indivisible goods among agents with single-peaked and risk-averse von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility functions. We establish that a rule satisfies coalitional strategy-proofness, same-sideness, and strong symmetry if and only if it is the uniform probabilistic rule. By constructing an example, we show that if same-sideness is replaced by re...