Further perspectives on elimination

Further perspectives on treating localized prostate cancer.

Standard treatment options for prostate cancer patients include surveillance, surgery, external-beam radiotherapy, brachytherapy, the combination of external-beam and brachytherapy, and the combination of radiotheraputic modalities with hormonal therapy, for appropriately chosen patients. Unfortunately, randomized data comparing these treatments are limited, which makes the determination of rel...

Further Results on Interconnection and Elimination for Delay-Differential Systems

In this short note we will consider a problem concerning the interconnection of systems from the behavioral point of view. The specific class of systems under consideration will be smooth time-invariant delay-differential systems with commensurate delays. We will give a characterization for the achievability of a given subsystem via regular interconnection from the overall system. This also lea...

Further Perspectives in Organic Chemistry

IAP perspectives on measles and rubella elimination strategies.

The Academy's Expert group on Immunization has discussed various issues pertaining to rubella vaccine introduction in to the Universal Immunization Program. Though the move to introduce rubella vaccine in to the UIP is laudable, the decision to overlook mumps seems inexplicable and illogical. Logistics also support the use of measles-mump and rubella (MMR) vaccine instead of measles-rubella (MR...

Healthcare accreditation systems: further perspectives on performance measures.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is to identify and suggest a number of performance measures to facilitate the evaluation of accreditation programs in healthcare. METHODS The paper is based on an exploratory research which has used qualitative methods, including snowball sampling technique, email interview and thematic content analysis. PARTICIPANTS Respondents (experts and professionals...