BACKGROUND As part of the former Soviet Union, the Moldovan health system was highly centralized and geared toward inpatient care. The objective of this study was to explore the personal experiences of female family physicians in Chişinău, Moldova. METHODS A purposeful sample of female family physicians was recruited to participate in this study. A professional translator conducted in-depth i...

This paper introduces a novel method for analyzing video records which contain personal activities captured by a head-mounted camera. This aims to support the user to retrieve the most important or relevant portions from the videos. For this purpose, we use the user’s behaviors which appear when he/she pays attention to something. We define two types of those behaviors, one of which is “gaze at...

Although females represent a high proportion of medical graduates, women are under represented at consultant level in many hospital specialties. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were undertaken which established female representation at all levels of the medical workforce in Ireland in 2011 and documented the personal experiences of a sample of female specialists. The proportions of female...

This article explores the phenomenon of "phantom pain." The analysis is based on personal experiences elicited from individuals who have lost a limb or live with a paralyzed body part. Our study reveals that the ways in which these individuals express their pain experience is an integral aspect of that experience. The material consists of interviews undertaken with men who are living with phant...

Charles Rosenblatt Department of Physics Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106 USA Abstract Liquid crystal research falls under the broad category of “soft materials,” and is conducted at universities, government laboratories, and in industry around the world. The field has been particularly conducive to collaborative interactions, with many national and regional liquid crystal ...

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When a person, due to brain injury or another disease, suffers in his or her ability to speak, it becomes inherently cumbersome to share needs, emotions, and experiences through personal stories and social interaction. This paper describes the aim and progress of the author’s dissertation, which focuses on designing a support system to share daily experiences for people suffering from expressiv...

Augmented Reality (AR) systems describe the class of systems that use computers to overlay virtual information on the real world. AR environments allow the development of promising tools in several application domains. In medical training and simulation the learning potential of AR is significantly amplified by the capability of the system to present 3D medical models in real-time at remote loc...

Social networks popularity has been increasing on the Web over the last years. These web sites provide an easy way to share digital data between people with common interests. With this way of exchanging memories of personal experiences, large repositories of data are being created. Indeed personal media, like photos and videos, are excellent vehicles to exchange experiences, however to manage l...