OBJECTIVES Excess mortality following weekend hospital admission has been observed but not explained. As readmissions have greater age, comorbidity and social deprivation, outcomes following emergency index admission and readmission were examined for temporal and demographic associations to confirm whether weekend readmissions contribute towards excess mortality. DESIGN A retrospective observ...

In this paper we make use of the Irish component of the European Union Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey for 2004 in order to develop a measure of consistent poverty that overcomes some of the difficulties associated with the original indicators employed as targets in the Irish National Anti-Poverty Strategy. Our analysis leads us to propose a set of basic de...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between material deprivation and 10 leading causes of death by gender. DESIGN Small area cross sectional ecological study using two dimensions of material deprivation (Index 1 and Index 2) drawn from 1991 census and cause specific mortality data aggregated for 1987-1995. SETTING 2218 small areas in Spain. MAIN RESULTS Strong detrimental assoc...

INTRODUCTION According to the inverse care law, there is a mismatch between patients' medical needs and medical care supply. As an example, the number of doctors is often lower in areas with high deprivation compared to areas with no deprivation, and doctors with a deprived patient population may experience a high work pressure, have insufficient time for comprehensive tasks and be at higher ri...

In this paper, the progress in the theoretical study of the dielectric barrier discharge is reported. The model of the atmospheric-pressure discharge is discussed. Such effects as the oscillations of the Townsend mode of the discharge, the instability of the Townsend mode with subsequent transition to the filamentary discharge, and the stabilization of the barrier discharge by the photoemission...

NITROGEN-15 NATURALABUNDANCE METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF NITRATE SOURCES M. A. Townsend, D. P. Young, and S. A. Macko Kansas Geological Survey, 1930 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047; Phone: 785-864­ 3965; Fax: 785-864-5317; [email protected]; [email protected]. University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA 22903; Phone: 434-924-6849; Fax: 434-982-2137; s...

Department of Mechanical Engineering – Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University, 815 R.L. Smith Building, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931, USA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931, USA c Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science, Nanta Street 114, Shenyang, Liaonin...