^ountry were detailed. It was mentioned that as ^te as 1700 the patients in the Hotel Dieu were at j^ttes of pressure placed two and three in a bed. J-he early English hospitals were infirmaries connected ^h the monasteries, and to them resorted, not only a?ute cases, but the chronic and destitute, the rehgious houses taking the place of the Poor Law, j^Ucational and hospital authorities. A sto...

Hospital acquired infections (HAI) are a largely avoidable and costly burden on public health systems. Accurate estimates of the costs of HAI are necessary to gauge the cost efficiency of alternative infection control measures, but are traditionally very difficult to compute. In particular, existing studies of the costs of HAI do not take into account the possible endogeneity bias between the r...

All authors are employed at the Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ontario. Kathy Bally is a clinical instructor for the coronary care unit, cardiovascular laboratory, cardiology unit, and the cardiac devices clinic. Debbie Campbell is the regional cardiac care coordinator with the Cardiac Care Network and is project leader of multicenter trials in critical care. Kathy Chesnick is the profe...

M-commerce (mobile commerce) is the buying and selling of goods and services through wireless handheld devices such as cellular telephone and personal digital assistants PDA. M-commerce provides lot of services like Mobile ticketing, Mobile banking, Mobile location based services, Mobile auctions, Mobile purchasing and so on. This represents an incredible opportunity to enable mobile devices, a...

Video image has the advantage of large amount of information, good real-time performance and low cost, so automatic people counting based on video image has very high practical value, and many scholars have done a large number of experiments and studies on this and achieved certain achievements. But for scenes with more occlusion and background changing quickly and without obvious rules, it’s d...

Clinicopathological Conference / HMS Dementia: A Comprehensive Update June 9, 2016, 10:00 a.m., Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel Dr. M.-Marsel Mesulam and Others PRESENTATION OF CASE A 70-year-old woman was seen in the Memory Disorders outpatient clinic of this hospital because of gradually progressive cognitive difficulties involving word-finding. She was interviewed with the assistance of her daug...

this study aimed at investigating the state of tourism and sport tourism in abu dhabi which considered the competences of sport tourism, ongoing sport fields and the capacity and condition of places of residence in abu dhabi between 2004 and 2008. the statistical population equaled the sample consisting of 40 tourism authorities, experts and managers, hotel, sport club and travel agency manager...

The vastly increasing number of online hotel room bookings are not only intensifying the competition in the travel industry as a whole, but also prompt travel intermediates (i.e. e-companies that aggregate information about different travel products from different travel suppliers) into a fierce competition for the best prices of travel products, i.e. hotel rooms. An important factor that affec...

background and objectives: services quality has become the major concern of policy-makers in the present rapidly growing consumer-oriented health industry. however, there is a major gap in the relevant literature in malaysia in this particular field. thus, this research attempted to narrow this gap by conducting a qualitative study to gain insight into quality of healthcare services in the mala...