In the literature on growth, infrastructure, in addition to other factors, is identified as a determining element growth of regions from long-term perspective. However, there are few studies where unit analysis disaggregated down regional level. Therefore, this research aims explore importance infrastructure (social and economic) economic Ecuador´s provinces. The methodology used leads calculat...

The subjective nature of quality life, makes it complex to measure the life. Among them, finding a few key criteria that affect life in cities will be main purpose. In this study, linear regression model was used predict numerical relationship between population density, bachelor's degree rate and education Gini index, further Akaike information criterion (AIC) Bayesian (BIC) were selected vali...

The topic of index tuning has received considerable attention in the research literature. However, very few studies provide a comparative evaluation of the proposed index tuning techniques in the same environment and with the same experimental methodology. In this paper, we outline our efforts in this direction with the development of a performance benchmark for the specific problem of online i...

background: to suggest south india ct diagnostic reference levels (drls) by collecting radiation doses for the most commonly performed ct examinations. materials and methods: a pilot study investigated the most frequent ct examinations. 110 ct sites were asked to complete a survey booklet to allow the recording of ct parameters for each of 3 ct examinations during a 1 year time period. dose dat...