BACKGROUND Rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDT) may influence physician decision-making. Single-center studies suggest that influenza diagnosed in association with RIDT reduces ancillary testing and antibiotic prescribing. The extent of RIDT use in US emergency departments (EDs) and their impact on patient management are unknown. We examined the use of RIDT and its effect on influenza manage...

In order to ensure the quality of supply in the electric energy system the ancillary services frequency and voltage control are necessary. With regard to the ongoing decentralization of power supply, approaches are being investigated to provide those ancillary services by decentralized units some of which are highly volatile in power generation. This leads to the question of the reliability wit...

The Chiropractic & Osteopathic College of Australasia is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing high quality continuing education for chiropractors and osteopaths. In the past the College has focussed its education programs on the diagnostic and clinical sciences but for its 'Third Biennial Conference' held in October 1999 the theme was on soft tissue therapies. The conference was ent...

We consider the problem of small sample inference for the generalised extreme value distribution. In particular, we show the existence of approximate and exact ancillary statistics for this distribution and that small sample likelihood based inference is greatly improved by conditioning on these statistics. Ignoring the ancillary statistics in inference can have severe consequences in some stan...

Motivated by airline baggage fees, we consider a service provider offering a main service (e.g., transporting a person) and an ancillary service (e.g., transporting a checked bag) that an individual customer may or may not need. We ask whether the firm should bundle the two services and post a single price or unbundle them and price the ancillary service separately. We consider two motivations ...

In this presentation, we describe our experiences with building and using large ontologies, with application to locating NASA Earth science data. We use OWL to represent the mutual relationships of scientific concepts and their ancillary space, time, and environmental descriptors.

Several studies found ancillary benefits of environmental policy to be of considerable size. These additional private benefits imply not only higher cooperative but also noncooperative abatement targets. However, beyond these largely undisputed important quantitative effects, there are qualitative and strategic implications associated with ancillary benefits: climate policy is no longer a pure ...

Due to uncertain nature of wind and photovoltaic power units, the participation of this units in electricity markets is subjected to significant deviation penalties. This issue leads to despondency or even admission of these units in the competitive environment. With regard to this fact that the low deviations are available when predictions are performed in a short-term horizon and also distrib...

Dasymetric areal interpolation is the process by which data are transferred from a spatial unit system for which they are available (source units) to another system for which they are required (target units) with the aid of ancillary information (control units). We propose a spatially disaggregated areal interpolation model for population data using light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-derived b...