This paper reports on the transformation that has occurred in the care of people living with HIV/AIDS in a Toronto Hospice. Casey House opened in the pre-HAART era to care exclusively for people with HIV/AIDS, an incurable disease. At the time, all patients were admitted for palliative care and all deaths were due to AIDS-defining conditions. AIDS-defining malignancies accounted for 22 percent ...

Russia led a key Cold War alliance and is now at the forefront of debates about major power realignments. Yet Russia’s own conceptualization alliances in post-Soviet era has received scant attention. How do Russian policymakers academics view post-Cold alliances: Are they obsolete, or are still used for cultivating strategic relationships? We examine through systematic study policy documents ac...

Customer Relationship Management has drastically evolved as a new marketing domain and already been implemented in all major industries. The technological innovations through CRM systems proven successful the financial manufacturing domains. And past one year seen drastic implementations healthcare sector. purpose of this research is to evaluate impact hospitals also light how national e-health...

Summary The Arctic plays a central role in the Earth's climate and an increasingly important international relations politics. As region undergoes profound transformation due to combined impacts of anthropogenic change global economic forces, new questions governance come forefront debates about future region. This primer provides essential overview these changes as well region's syste...

FUJITSU Sci. Tech. J., Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 3–9 (July 2017) 1. Industrial structure of global market has changed Global industry has entered a historic, once-in-ahundred-year period of dramatic change. The impact was initially limited to the digital and software-rich electronics industry during the 1990s, while from the 2010s on, dramatic changes began to appear in nondigital industries as well,...

This essay addresses the nature of the medieval transformation of Eurasia from the perspective of China during the Song dynasty (960-1279). Out of the many facets of the wholesale metamorphosis of Chinese society that characterized this era, I focus on the development of an increasingly bureaucratic and autocratic state, the emergence of a semi-autonomous local elite, and the impact on both tre...

Critical investigations into the cellular and molecular biology of parasitic nematodes have been hindered by a lack of modern molecular genetic techniques for these organisms. One such technique is transgenesis. To our knowledge, the findings reported here demonstrate the first heritable DNA transformation and transgene expression in the intestinal parasite Strongyloides stercoralis. When micro...