Coordinated Care: Our Forward View

Healing and palliative care: charting our way forward.

Healing has been defined as a relational process involving movement towards an experience of integrity and wholeness, whichmay be facilitated by a caregiver’s interventions but is dependent on an innate potential within the patient. It is not dependant on the presence of, or the capacity for, physical well being. Indeed, it is possible to die healed. In contrast to the familiar Hippocratic appr...

Coordinated Forward Error Recovery for Web Services

This paper puts forward a solution based on forward error recovery, oriented towards providing dependability of composed Web services. The proposed solution has no impact on the autonomy of the individual Web services, while exploiting their possible support for dependability (e.g., transactional support at the level of each service). Our solution lies in system structuring in terms of co-opera...

Our Museum- An Artist's View

A look forward: arrows in our quiver.

(Fam Med 2006;38(5):314-5.) In my final presidential column, I’ll describe resources that family medicine teachers can use to meet the challenges ahead. We must not underestimate the urgency of our situation, nor our need to make strategic choices and act energetically. At the same time let’s remember—and draw upon—our full quiver of arrows. By “arrows” I mean habits of mind, action plans, and ...

Backward and forward chaining - our nascent

As computer graphics evolves and expands into an essential component of many interactive systems, it is almost inevitable that the applications themselves become more complex and ambitious. In particular, the interactive system is rapidly becoming the intelligent system: Not only does the interface permit convenient access to the entities and operations of the application, but it also aids and ...