BACKGROUND The movement of medical education into the community has accelerated the development of a new model of general practice in which core clinical services are complemented by educational and research activities involving the whole primary care team. AIM To compare quality indicators, workload characteristics, and health authority income of general practices involved in undergraduate m...

The first phase of the SET protocol, namely Cardholder Registration, has been modelled inductively. This phase is presented in outline and its formal model is described. A number of basic lemmas have been proved about the protocol using Isabelle/HOL, along with a theorem stating that a certification authority will certify a given key at most once. Many ambiguities, contradictions and omissions ...

The parliament and state legislatures derive their power to legislate under Article 246 of the Constitution of India, read with Schedule 7, which divides subject matters in terms of a union, state and concurrent list. The regulation of cow slaughter is understood to be a state subject-entry 15 of List II to the seventh schedule (which enumerates the state list) reads 'Preservation, protection a...

Motivated by important international differences in the design of ”say on pay” (SoP), this paper studies how its enforceability and its timing affects compensation decisions of the board of directors (BoD) and the level of board dependence. The analysis suggests that SoP design can have significant economic consequences that should be considered by regulatory authorities. In the context of a th...

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Matching donations from deceased patients to patients on the waiting list account for over 85% of all kidney transplants performed in Australia. We propose a simple mechanisms to perform this matching and compare this new mechanism with the more complex algorithm currently under consideration by the Organ and Tissue Authority in Australia. We perform a number of experiments using real world dat...

In this report, we described the IRIS-IPS, an interactive people search system for HCIR 2012 data challenge. IRISIPS can recommend candidates from three different aspects, i.e. the content based relevance, the candidates’ authority rank and the social similarity. The social similarity is measured by the closeness between a candidate and the support entity list. The default the support entity li...