Background Implementing an open door policy is a complex intervention comprising changes in therapeutic stance, team processes, and a change from locked to open doors. Recent studies show that it can lead to a reduction of seclusion and forced medication, but the role of the physical change of door status is still unclear. Aims The aims of this study is to examine the transition from closed t...

Components of mHealth are increasingly being added to development interventions worldwide. A particular case of interest is in Mali where the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) Africa Indoor Residual Spraying (AIRS) Project piloted a mobile mass-messaging service in Koulikoro District in August 2014 to determine whether voice and/or text messages received on cell phones could effectively...

We describe a new proposal for a trap-door one-way function. The new proposal belongs to the “multivariate quadratic” family but the trap-door is different from existing methods, and is simpler. Known quantum algorithms do not appear to help an adversary attack this trap-door. (Beyond the asymptotic square-root-speedup which applies to all oracle search problems.)

INTRODUCTION The American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology guidelines recommend rapid door-to-electrocardiography (ECG) times for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Previous quality improvement research at our institution revealed that we were not meeting this benchmark for walk-in STEMI patients. The objective is to investigate whether simple, dir...

Citation: Ensink K, Fonagy P, Berthelot N, Normandin L and Bernazzani O (2015) Response: Behind the closed doors of mentalizing. A commentary on “Another step closer to measuring the ghosts in the nursery: preliminary validation of the Trauma Reflective Functioning Scale.” Front. Psychol. 6:697. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00697 Response: Behind the closed doors of mentalizing. A commentary on “Ano...

In this article, I study how the presence of a revolving door and potential collusion between a regulator and a regulated firm affect the regulator's performance incentives. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, these seemingly undesirable features of the regulatory system may serve the interests of the government because (i) the regulator's efforts to enhance her industry qualifications may hav...

In this note we will prove a theorem on divisors on the blow up of P at points which extends a theorem of G. Xu [Xu] on the blow up of P. The central idea of the proof works for any dimension and therefore opens the doors to a generalization of the theorem to higher dimension, once one overcomes certain technical difficulties that arise. Basically we will give a new proof of Xu’s theorem that w...