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The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) has surveyed the sky at multiple frequencies as part of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). The first two RACS observing epochs, at 887.5 (RACS-low) and 1 367.5 (RACS-mid) MHz, have been released (McConnell, et al. 2020, PASA, 37, e048; Duchesne, et al. 2023, PASA, 40, e034). A catalogue of radio sources from RACS-low has also been released, covering the sky south of declination 
$+30^{\circ}$ (Hale, et al., 2021, PASA, 38, e058). With this paper, we describe and release the first set of catalogues from RACS-mid, covering the sky below declination 
$+49^{\circ}$. The catalogues are created in a similar manner to the RACS-low catalogue, and we discuss this process and highlight additional changes. The general purpose primary catalogue covering 36 200 deg
$^2$ features a variable angular resolution to maximise sensitivity and sky coverage across the catalogued area, with a median angular resolution of 
$11.2^{\prime\prime} \times 9.3^{\prime\prime}$. The primary catalogue comprises 3 105 668 radio sources, including those in the Galactic Plane (2 861 923 excluding Galactic latitudes of 
$|b|<5^{\circ}$), and we estimate the catalogue to be 95% complete for sources above 2 mJy. With the primary catalogue, we also provide two auxiliary catalogues. The first is a fixed-resolution, 25-arcsec catalogue approximately matching the sky coverage of the RACS-low catalogue. This 25-arcsec catalogue is constructed identically to the primary catalogue, except images are convolved to a less-sensitive 25-arcsec angular resolution. The second auxiliary catalogue is designed for time-domain science and is the concatenation of source lists from the original RACS-mid images with no additional convolution, mosaicking, or de-duplication of source entries to avoid losing time-variable signals. All three RACS-mid catalogues, and all RACS data products, are available through the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (https://research.csiro.au/casda/).
The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is being used to undertake a campaign to rapidly survey the sky in three frequency bands across its operational spectral range. The first pass of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) at 887.5 MHz in the low band has already been completed, with images, visibility datasets, and catalogues made available to the wider astronomical community through the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA). This work presents details of the second observing pass in the mid band at 1367.5 MHz, RACS-mid, and associated data release comprising images and visibility datasets covering the whole sky south of 
$\delta_{\text{J2000}}=+49^\circ$. This data release incorporates selective peeling to reduce artefacts around bright sources, as well as accurately modelled primary beam responses. The Stokes I images reach a median noise of 198 
$\mu$Jy PSF
$^{-1}$ with a declination-dependent angular resolution of 8.1–47.5 arcsec that fills a niche in the existing ecosystem of large-area astronomical surveys. We also supply Stokes V images after application of a widefield leakage correction, with a median noise of 165 
$\mu$Jy PSF
$^{-1}$. We find the residual leakage of Stokes I into V to be 
$\lesssim 0.9$–
$2.4$% over the survey. This initial RACS-mid data release will be complemented by a future release comprising catalogues of the survey region. As with other RACS data releases, data products from this release will be made available through CASDA.
According to CEOWORLD Magazine‘s 2019 “Health Care Indicators” rating of 89 countries in the world, Taiwan ranks first in the world. The coverage of the National Health Insurance covers all necessary medical treatment, including outpatient, hospitalization, and prescription drugs etc. The psychiatrist was wondering which item with the highest service cost–performance (CP) ratio of the psychiatrist performance in a general hospital and used proportion of PPF as performance indicator. He used allocation to distribute the hours across job activities.
The purpose of this study is to investigate items allocation proportion for outpatient and inpatient ward in a specific month, examining the distribution of performance and figure out an appropriate model to optimal medical service.
Demographic data were collected through PPF projects included 15 outpatient items and 19 inpatient ward items from the third-month of the psychiatrist’s employment in the general hospital, as shown in Table 1. Items related to physiological examination has been excluded. The performance is calculated by combining outpatient and inpatient wards.
Demographic data analysis found that proportion of inpatient ward PPF (67.01%) was significantly greater than proportion of outpatient PPF (32.99%) (Figure 1). The inpatient ward performance was 2 times the outpatient performance. This result showed that most performance came from inpatient ward. Among all items of the proportion of PPF unit, the highest two for inpatient ward items were general hospital bed inpatient consultation (32.58%) and special treatment for psychiatric inpatients (14.35%), and for outpatient, the highest was psychiatric outpatient consultation - more than two (11.31%) (Table 1).
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National Health Insurance is an important system to assist in epidemic prevention during the COVID-19 period. The most PPF of psychiatrist service in a general hospital came from the service of inpatient ward items, including the general hospital bed inpatient consultation with the highest CP ratio. These findings may suggest that the inpatient service could offer psychiatrists fair PPF, and the hospital environment could be favorable for recruitment.
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In Taiwan, National Health Insurance has been implemented for 27 years and continues to receive international recognition. People pay part of the quota at the time of medical treatment, and the rest of the medical expenses will be paid by the national health insurance. In this study, the researcher, a psychiatrist in the general hospital, investigated the correlation between service and revenue. He has started to work in this hospital since November 1st, 2021, without any other psychiatrist peers.
This study used proportion of PPF as performance indicator and aimed to observe the changes of PPF unit from November 1st, 2021, to January 31st, 2022, examining the trend of PPF growth. The purpose is to figure out an appropriate model to optimize medical services and performance outcomes.
Demographic data were collected through PPF projects, consisting of 17 inpatient ward items and 14 outpatient items from November 1st, 2021, to January 31st, 2022, and items with no performance or related to physiological examination has been excluded. In addition, items with a ratio of greater than 1.5% are presented in the bar graphs, as shown in Figure 2 and 3. The performance proportion of inpatient ward and outpatient were calculated separately.
Demographic data found PPF rises significantly over time (Figure 1). The 2nd month PPF unit (27.09%) was 2.5 times the 1st month PPF unit (10.70%), and the 3rd month PPF unit (62.21%) was 2.2 times the 2nd month PPF unit (27.085%). The highest proportion of PPF items were general hospital bed inpatient consultation fee for inpatient ward item (Figure 2) and psychiatric outpatient consultation fee for outpatient item (Figure 3). Furthermore, only the proportion of psychiatric outpatient consultation – more than two consecutive transfers increased continuously and the proportion of psychiatric outpatient consultation – adjusted by the hospital decreased, the other items has not changed significantly.
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In the first three months of the psychiatrist employment, the performance showed an increasing trend. These findings may suggest that the psychiatrist could be competent in a general hospital with patients’ confidence. In addition, under an optimal model of PPF and medical service, psychiatrists would more like to work in the general hospital, to serve acute psychiatric patients in need.
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We investigate the diversity in the sizes and average surface densities of the neutral atomic hydrogen (H i) gas discs in 
$\sim$280 nearby galaxies detected by the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind Survey (WALLABY). We combine the uniformly observed, interferometric H i data from pilot observations of the Hydra cluster and NGC 4636 group fields with photometry measured from ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared imaging surveys to investigate the interplay between stellar structure, star formation, and H i structural parameters. We quantify the H i structure by the size of the H i relative to the optical disc and the average H i surface density measured using effective and isodensity radii. For galaxies resolved by 
$>$
$1.3$ beams, we find that galaxies with higher stellar masses and stellar surface densities tend to have less extended H i discs and lower H i surface densities: the isodensity H i structural parameters show a weak negative dependence on stellar mass and stellar mass surface density. These trends strengthen when we limit our sample to galaxies resolved by 
$>$2 beams. We find that galaxies with higher H i surface densities and more extended H i discs tend to be more star forming: the isodensity H i structural parameters have stronger correlations with star formation. Normalising the H i disc size by the optical effective radius (instead of the isophotal radius) produces positive correlations with stellar masses and stellar surface densities and removes the correlations with star formation. This is due to the effective and isodensity H i radii increasing with mass at similar rates while, in the optical, the effective radius increases slower than the isophotal radius. Our results are in qualitative agreement with previous studies and demonstrate that with WALLABY we can begin to bridge the gap between small galaxy samples with high spatial resolution H i data and large, statistical studies using spatially unresolved, single-dish data.
We present the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY (WALLABY) Pilot Phase I Hi kinematic models. This first data release consists of Hi observations of three fields in the direction of the Hydra and Norma clusters, and the NGC 4636 galaxy group. In this paper, we describe how we generate and publicly release flat-disk tilted-ring kinematic models for 109/592 unique Hi detections in these fields. The modelling method adopted here—which we call the WALLABY Kinematic Analysis Proto-Pipeline (WKAPP) and for which the corresponding scripts are also publicly available—consists of combining results from the homogeneous application of the FAT and 3DBarolo algorithms to the subset of 209 detections with sufficient resolution and 
$S/N$ in order to generate optimised model parameters and uncertainties. The 109 models presented here tend to be gas rich detections resolved by at least 3–4 synthesised beams across their major axes, but there is no obvious environmental bias in the modelling. The data release described here is the first step towards the derivation of similar products for thousands of spatially resolved WALLABY detections via a dedicated kinematic pipeline. Such a large publicly available and homogeneously analysed dataset will be a powerful legacy product that that will enable a wide range of scientific studies.
