INTRODUCTION Terror attacks in Southeast Asia were almost nonexistent until the 2002 Bali bomb blast, considered the deadliest attack in Indonesian history. Further attacks in 2003 (Jakarta), 2004 (Jakarta), and 2005 (Bali) have turned terrorist attacks into an ever-present reality. METHODS The authors reviewed medical charts of victims evacuated to the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) Burns ...

I am cast on this panel as offering an economist’s view of the policy lessons to be drawn from the income maintenance experiments. That will be true enough if you take the word "an" seriously. I am indubitably a card-carrying economist. But I have the feeling that -on these particular matters at least -my views are not always those of the typical economist. Part of the difference, but only part...

A production process includes several sub-processes, which may also be called working areas or disciplines that are responsible for performing the different tasks required to accomplish the mission of the process. It is crucial that the tasks performed in these sub-processes are synchronised with each other without unnecessary and uncontrollable gaps and overlapping, which in turn may lead to l...

Although strategic human resource (HR) management research has established a significant relationship between high-performance HR practices and firm-level financial and market outcomes, few studies have considered the important role of employees’ perceptions of HR practice use or examined the more proximal outcomes of high-performance HR practices that may play mediating roles in the HR practic...

Ideally, health policies should be based on valid scientific evidence and such evidence requires health research. Health research is also an essential tool for achieving equity in health and development. Although the need to carry out health research is now well accepted, South Asian countries still lag behind and do not make any meaningful contributions to health research and development. This...

BACKGROUND Respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis is the single leading cause of pediatric admissions for infants in the first year of life, presenting regularly in epidemic proportions in the winter months and impacting in major way on pediatric inpatient services. OBJECTIVES To quantitate the burden of RSV disease on a pediatric service with the purpose of providing a database for proper...

In any firms, human resource (HR) practices are the direct investments on employees’ human capital through which firms achieve competitive advantage and employees enhance their human capital. Recognizing the structure of HR practices comprised of distinct patterns would maximize the chances to understand the firms’ ways of developing core competencies. This paper analyzes 472 employees’ respons...

1 Aristotle University, Dept. of Informatics, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece, email: {yrefanid, vlahavas}@csd.auth.gr Abstract. This paper presents GRT-R, an enhanced version of the GRT planner capable of explicitly handling resources. GRT is a domain independent heuristic STRIPS planner, which works in the space of the states. The heuristic computes off-line, in a preprocessing phase, estimates f...

Thank you for the opportunity to comment upon the Preliminary Draft Amendments to the Guidelines for the Implementation of the California Environmental quality Act (CEQA)(Title 14, California Code of Regulations). The Amendments are proposed in order to implement Senate Bill 97 (Dutton), which directs the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to develop guidelines for the mitigation ...

In this paper we present a classification scheme which circumscribes a large class of resources found in the real world. Building on the work of others we also define key properties of resources that allow formal expression of the proposed classification. Furthermore, operations that change the state of a resource are formalized. Together, properties and operations go a long way in formalizing ...