TWO KEY QUESTIONS are exercising the minds of pharmaceutical R&D directors at the moment: how to make better use of the available resources, and where to invest for growth. My experience of working with several major pharmaceutical companies over the past ten years shows that sound answers to those questions can be obtained by identifying the areas of greater and lesser opportunity in the portf...

The only surgery without risk of complications is the one not performed. Shared decision-making (SDM) offers a process which can help a physician and patient move beyond passive informed consent to a more collaborative, patient-centered experience. By offering a balanced review of conservative and invasive treatment options, including the option of observation only, SDM provides patients an opp...

This paper presents our research approach of interruptions in mobile HCI inspired by a phenomenological view of context and mobility. On that basis, we outline a research framework and methodology to study the contextual factors at play during the interruption process. Building on that, we propose a design framework based on the discovery of contextual opportunity and delineate the design of a ...

Three dimensional user interfaces can help users in time-critical situations to improve their ability to solve problems. But they also may distract them from fulfilling their tasks with efficiency and effectiveness. This requests to control and limit the distraction caused by usage of those interfaces. Therefore it is necessary to measure and compare distraction caused by three dimensional user...

This position paper describes the Activity-Based Computing (ABC) project which has been ongoing in Denmark since 2003. Originally, the project took its outset in the design of a pervasive computing platform suited for the mobile, collaborative, and time-critical work of clinicians in a hospital setting. Out of this grew a conceptual framework, a set of six ABC principles, and a programming and ...

The 9/11 suicide attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, triggered a number of security responses both in the United States of America and other Countries in the World. Kenya, which is an ally and a close partner to North America and Europe, was not left behind. While many states had been parties to numerous terrorism conventions, their response in implementing them had been sl...

Cognitivism has dominated mainstream psychology for decades, but lately its position has been weakened. It has been criticized not only by behavior analysts but also by social and evolutionary psychologists, neuroscientists, and authors who are or used to be cognitivists themselves. At the same time, psychologists and neuroscientists in several fields are now rediscovering the necessity of unde...

We study the impact of style investing on the market for corporate control. We argue that a firm may choose to boost its market value by merging with a firm that belongs to a style that is more favored by the market. By using data on the flows in mutual funds, we construct a measure of neglectedness, which relies directly on the identification of sentiment-induced investor demand, rather than b...

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Oncology nursing, like many other nursing fields, often provides nurses with the opportunity to get to know their patients and their families well. This familiarity allows oncology nurses to show a level of compassion and empathy that is often helpful to the patient and their family during their struggle with cancer. However, this familiarity can also lead to a profound sense of grief if the pa...