This paper explores the potential integration of freight transport into a Mobility as Service (MaaS) environment. MaaS is user-oriented service concept providing door-to-door mobility solutions for people. It integrates services multiple providers, enabling searching, booking, and payment through single digital platform. Although often presented great opportunity to increase efficiency overall ...

Abstract Introduction There is a trend toward more conservative management of solitary micropapillary thyroid carcinomas (mPTC). Incidental findings multifocal mPTC are regular subject discussion at multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings, however, guidance on its limited. Methods All patients discussed the West Scotland Thyroid Cancer MDT between November 2008 and July 2020 with (10mm or less) f...

Current ubiquitous computing applications for smart homes aim to enhance people’s daily living respecting age span. Among the target groups of people, elderly are a population eager for “choices for living arrangements”, which would allow them to continue living in their homes but at the same time provide the health care they need. Given the growing elderly population, there is a need for stati...

Marketing researchers recently have begun to investigate compliance-gaining tactics that influence behavior directly (Tybout 1978), bypassing the cognitive or attitudinal change proposed as necessary in the persuasive approach to behavioral change (Bass, Pessemier, and Lehmann 1972; Ginter 1974; Sheth and Talarzyk 1972). The behavioral influence strategy receiving the greatest attention in the ...

ophthalmologists visit patients with “20/20” vision post-op who are not satisfied and at times encounter cases with significantly lower visual acuity who are totally satisfied quality of life is at the heart of this.   quality of life (qol) approach—in the healthcare context—advocates a focus on the softer psychosocial aspects of health care vis-à-vis the harder biological aspects and the adopt...

for a finite group $g$‎, ‎let $cent(g)$ denote the set of centralizers of single elements of $g$‎. ‎in this note we prove that if $|g|leq frac{3}{2}|cent(g)|$ and $g$ is 2-nilpotent‎, ‎then $gcong s_3‎, ‎d_{10}$ or $s_3times s_3$‎. ‎this result gives a partial and positive answer to a conjecture raised by a‎. ‎r‎. ‎ashrafi [on finite groups with a given number of centralizers‎, ‎algebra‎ ‎collo...

We can foster collaboration between the academic study of religion and the sciences, particularly the biological and psychological sciences, if we (1) construct a common object of study that can be positioned within an evolutionary paradigm, (2) adopt a building block approach to the study of religion that distinguishes between religions and the more elementary phenomena that comprise them, and...