As the supply of physicians grew during the 1970s, medical and surgical specialists diffused into smaller communities. In 1979, nearly every town with a population of more than 2,500 had ready access to a physician. The overall pattern of physician distribution was quite similar in the four disparate geographic regions chosen for study. The data strongly suggest that competitive forces play a m...

Intensive care medicine (ICM) is unique in that it deals with the most severely ill patients in almost all fields of medicine. It is demanding in all aspects from a theoretical, practical, co-operational and personal perspective. It is also characterised by a rapid development in diagnostic and treatment options. Furthermore, the organisational and manpower characteristics of European healthcar...

The Korean Society of Therapeutic Radiology has periodically conducted a national survey on the status of radiation therapy facilities in Korea. This paper summarized survey data on the status of radiation therapy facilities, manpower, megavoltage equipments, patient load, types of procedures performed and characteristics of the patients treated.

childtrends.org “Soft skills” are centrally important for human capital development and workforce success. A growing evidence base shows that these qualities rival academic or technical skills in their ability to predict employment and earnings, among other outcomes (Kautz, Heckman, Diris, ter Weel, & Borghans, 2014). As the workplace has modernized around the world, the demand for such skills ...

OBJECTIVE Karigiri was set up initially to be a sanatorium with a difference, and the objective of this review is to study whether this had been achieved. METHODS A broad search of 43 various publications from Karigiri. RESULTS Stigma towards leprosy lead to the creation of this sanatorium, and within 20 years of its existence it made a significant contribution to the knowledge and treatmen...

Many defects in manufacturing system are caused by human resources that show the significance of the human resources in manufacturing systems. Most manufacturers attempt to investigate the human resources in order to improve the work conditions and reduce the human error by providing a proper work-rest schedule. On the other hand, manufacturer deal with machine scheduling based on demand and wo...

Human is a small part of nature and with its constant presence in the natural environment, it was able to create an artificial and man-made environment tailored to its needs. Identifying structural components of nature and adapting them to the three dimensions of body, spirit and soul and their role in creating physical, functional and content components in architecture, is the beginning of the...

An intelligent service robot helps human users with providing various services such as bringing a newspaper, recommending TV programs, and preparing meals. Each service can be accomplished by coordinating various motion actuations that are activated based on sensory data. Due to the limitation of robot computing-resources such as CPU usage and memory, the software components that implement such...