background: sharps injuries (sis) are one of the most serious occupational accidents among nurses due to the possible severe consequences, such as the transmission of infectious diseases and inducing of mental impairment. objective: to discover the prevalence of sis among nurses in a regional hospital in thailand and to identify factors associated with sis. methods: a cross-sectional study was ...

Two hundred and forty Japanese quail aged 125 days were randomly allocated to five treatment groups based on laying (%) quail’s weight (90.71 ± 1.8% egg/day × 100 178.05 9.38 g, respectively), each of which included six replicates eight quails. The diets formulated corn, soybean meal, industrial amino acids. An optimal diet achieves 100% acids required by the requirements, except for threonine....

Mutual fund selection is a notoriously difficult task, because past performance poor predictor of future performance. We propose measure that incorporates simple idea: shrinkage, in the sense Bayes-James-Stein, should be applied to gross return parameters, but not fees, which are known. The proposed Shrinkage Adjusted Sharpe ratio (SAS) substantially improves prediction out-of-sample relative e...

This paper presents the design of a procedural framework for an electronic market mediation service based on the adjusted-winner procedure for fair division. The main benefit of applying this procedure is that mutually beneficial agreements can be reached with minimal effort by the