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Appraisal of the communication skills of residents in the Family Medicine Program in Central Saudi Arabia.

Objectives: To assess patients’ perceptions of the communication skills of family medicine residents.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. Data were collected from patients, seeing 23 residents from 4 family medicine residency programs in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia namely, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh Military Hospital, Security Forces Hospital, and King Abdul-Aziz Medical City. The translated version of the Communication Assessment Tool (CAT) was used. Data were collected during January and February 2013.

قراءة المزيدحول Appraisal of the communication skills of residents in the Family Medicine Program in Central Saudi Arabia.

Modelling the FX market traders' behaviour: an agent-based approach

In this chapter, the authors use an Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) approach to model trading behavior in the Foreign Exchange (FX) market. They establish statistical properties (stylized facts) of the traders’ trading behavior in the FX market using a high-frequency dataset of anonymised OANDA individual traders’ historical transactions on an account level spanning 2.25 years.

قراءة المزيدحول Modelling the FX market traders' behaviour: an agent-based approach

A directional-change events approach for studying financial time series

Financial markets witness high levels of activity at certain times but remain calm at others. This makes the flow of physical time discontinuous. Therefore, to use physical time scales for studying financial time series runs the risk of missing important activities. An alternative approach is to use an event-based time scale that captures periodic activities in the market.