The objective of the study is to investigate the link between health care expenditures (HCE), economic growth and health outcomes (i.e., life expectancy (LE), infant mortality and the share of elderly people) for a panel of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries;...

The purpose of this study was two fold: (i) to investigate the casual relationship between energy consumption and agricultural technology factors, and (ii) electricity consumption and technological factors in the agricultural sector of Pakistan. The study further evaluates four alternative but...

The objective of the study is to re-investigate the multivariate electricity consumption function for Pakistan, particularly, economic growth, foreign direct investment and population growth over a 36-year time period, i.e., between 1975 and 2010. The study employed the bounds-testing procedure...

In this paper, we initiate the study of intuitionistic fuzzy subacts of an S-act, where S is a monoid with zero and S-acts are representations of S. We introduce the notions of pure intuitionistic fuzzy, purely intuitionistic maximal and purely intuitionistic fuzzy prime ideals of a monoid. It...

A soft semigroup over a semigroup is a collection of subsemigroups. Similarly, a soft ideal over a semigroup is a collection of ideals of the semigroup. As a natural consequence, the idea of soft ideals of a soft semigroup originates. Soft ideals over a semigroup with a fixed set of parameters...

In this paper we define prime, strongly prime and semiprime k-bi-ideals of a hemiring. We also define their fuzzy versions and characterize hemirings by the properties of these k-bi-ideals.

Participation in scholarly activities is a requirement in Emergency Medicine (EM) Residency Curriculum. A research project is a necessity for graduation for EM residents. To fulfill this requirement, EM residents have a mandatory research rotation. During this rotation, residents learn basic...

Residency training is an important period when a physician learns and acquires the necessary skills for searching, evaluating and applying medical knowledge. The journal club is an academic event and an important forum for this purpose. The objective of the journal club is to learn and develop a...

<Para ID="Par1">Event-based rainfall-runoff models are effective tools in operational hydrological forecasting and preparedness for extreme events. In the current study, the popular Natural Resources Soil Conservation curve number (NRCS-CN) model and the proposed simple nonlinear models were employed for runoff...</para>

Stata is a command driven program. It is a general purpose statistical software package which is used by people of different backgrounds and professional disciplines. Most STATA users, however, are non-physicians. Since it is used by people of all fields, most training programs offered are...