Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are perceived as a catalyst for economic growth. Number of studies, carried out by worldand Europeanleading institutions such as Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) or European Commission, addresses this issue in their reports. (OECD, 2004), studies the influence and measures the impact of ICT on firms. The development o...

The level of information today is decisive in the socio-economic development of the country. The purpose of the article is to identify the most influential factors in the process of developing informatization in the context of international globalization. The assessment of factors influencing world information is based on the following stages: forming incoming information about the state of wor...

Current literature abounds with evidence of how developed economies utilize information and communication technologies (ICT) for socio-economic development. On the other hand, less developed economies, including those in Africa continue to struggle with the use and diffusion of ICT. Such research, often under the theme of the digital divide, usually treats Africa as a monolith. Not much evidenc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Nutritional assessment in the elderly is difficult and different from that performed in younger people. There are specific tools for that purpose, such as the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI). The study objective was to compare this index to the Nutritional Risk Index (NRI). MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective, observational analytical study including 113 hos...

BACKGROUND Case-cohort studies are increasingly used to quantify the association of novel factors with disease risk. Conventional measures of predictive ability need modification for this design. We show how Harrell's C-index, Royston's D, and the category-based and continuous versions of the net reclassification index (NRI) can be adapted. METHODS We simulated full cohort and case-cohort dat...

Knowledge and know-how of calculation methods of indicators and indices allow to evaluate, compare and correlate if not fully then to a considerable extent the situation in different countries and regions of the world. Moreover, in countries with “transitional economy” to which Russia and other countries of former Soviet Union are attributed to, the situation has significantly changed and it is...

Malnutrition is common at hospital admission and tends to worsen during hospitalization. This controlled population study aimed to determine if serum albumin or moderate and severe nutritional depletion by Nutritional Risk Index (NRI) at hospital admission are associated with increased length of hospital stay (LOS) in patients admitted with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). Serum albumi...

The environment for networked readiness has improved relatively rapidly in most urban areas in Africa. Five years ago, only a handful of countries had local Internet access or mobile telephones; now, devices and access are available in virtually every major city. Hundreds of new radio stations and newspapers have been licensed over the last few years and digital satellite television has also be...