Using wireless radio technologies in a demanding industrial or medical environment requires paying careful attention to the needs of the application. For instance, applications that are considered not mission critical include the use of Bluetooth for device configuration and maintenance. Applications that are considered more or less critical include the use of Bluetooth to transfer live process...

Objective: Humanitarian medical and/or surgical missions have become common over the past 50 years. Little is known, however, about the quality of these missions, especially when a patient becomes unstable and requires resuscitation. We would like to present the “mock code” Operation Smile uses to ensure the best quality of care should a medical or surgical emergency arise during a mission. Ope...

We study the long-term effect of access to health care on individuals’ health status by investigating the relationship between the proximity to a Protestant medical mission in colonial India and current health outcomes. We use individuals’ anthropometric indicators to measure health status and geocoding tools to calculate the distance between the location of individuals today and Protestant hea...

The Mission District of San Francisco is a diverse neighborhood with substantial populations of inunigraiit families from Mexico and Central America; artists, activists, and other people living alternative lifestyles; young dot-com professionals; and a high concentration of homeless people (Little & Murray, 2005). The community has a similarly diverse population of poor and socially v\ilnerable...

Key points and main world trends are presented, including in the medical field, personal experience trip’s mission described.

one of the most popular management tools, the mission statement, also is subject to widespread criticism. in order to improve our understanding of the mission statement’s strategic value and to provide actionable and scientific recommendations for mission statement formulation have been tried by reviewing different strategic management texts, is represented a comprehensive model for formulation...

Objective: To discuss the experiences of a medical relief team to an earthquake hit area and provides suggestions for organization of similar missions to disaster sites in future so that more cost-effective relief may be provided. Design: Descriptive study. Setting: City of Bam in southeastern Iran’s Kerman province which was hit by an earthquake of 6.8 Richter on December 26, 2003. This destru...

BACKGROUND Incorporating evidence-based integrated treatment for dual disorders into typical care settings has been challenging, especially among those serving Veterans who are homeless. This paper presents an evaluation of an effort to incorporate an evidence-based, dual disorder treatment called Maintaining Independence and Sobriety Through Systems Integration, Outreach, and Networking-Vetera...