OBJECTIVES To determine the perceived education and training needs of health professionals involved in transitional care for adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). METHODS Two distinct questionnaires to identify transitional issues in JIA were distributed to key health professionals (n = 908) and clinical personnel involved in the implementation of a transitional care programme...

Transitional care research has mainly focused on the experiences of older adults with complex medical conditions. To date, few publications examine the experience of transitional care for non-medically complex older adults. In this article, we draw on and thematically analyze interview and audio-diary data collected at three hospitals in Eastern England, and we explore the experience of transit...

In this paper, we study systems of two conservation laws with homogeneous quadratic flux functions. We use the viscous profile criterion for shock admissibility. This criterion leads to the occurrence of non-classical transitional shock waves, which are sensitively dependent on the form of the viscosity matrix. The goal of this paper is to lay a foundation for investigating how the structure of...

The strong light emission and absorption exhibited by single atomic layer transitional metal dichalcogenides in the visible to near-infrared wavelength range make them attractive for optoelectronic applications. In this work, using two-pulse photovoltage correlation technique, we show that monolayer molybdenum disulfide photodetector can have intrinsic response times as short as 3 ps implying p...

The population of individuals with artificial joints is steadily increasing, because more devices are implanted, and the life span of people with implants is longer. During a 10-year period, the total number of knee replacements increased from 270,000 to 550,000 per year, and the total number of total hip replacements increased from 120,000 to 200,000 per year in the United States [1]. Prosthet...

Last update: January 2014 This paper is intended to provide a synthetic and holistic view of open-standards-based Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) architecture for smart-grid last-mile infrastructures in support of a number of advanced smart-grid applications (meter readout, demand-response, telemetry, and grid monitoring and automation) and its benefit as a true multiservice platform. In thi...

High-resolution records of the upper Olduvai geomagnetic field reversal were obtained from two localities within steeply dipping lacustrine sediments of the Confidence Hills, southern Death Valley, California . The difference in bedding attitude between the two localities allowed us to perform a fold test of both transitional and non-transitional paleomagnetic directions. This is the first posi...

Resting primordial germ cells or gonocytes, present in the testis of the rat at birth (Beaumont & Mandl, 1963), are highly radiosensitive. A dose of 50-100 r X-rays induces complete, or almost complete, sterility, as judged by the histological appearance of the testis at 25 days post par turn (Mandl et al. 1964). Studies of short-term post-irradiation changes have revealed that gonocytes, expos...

abstract   synchronous upper urinary tract tumor and superficial bladder tumor are uncommon. this is a report of a 62- year- old man presented with episode of painless gross hematuria and flank pain. we worked him up and found a left renal mass and bladder lesion. he underwent nephrectomy and tur-bt, and the pathology report of both showed a high grade urothelial transitional cell carcinoma. th...

Mobile applications (a.k.a., apps), which facilitate a large variety of tasks on mobile devices, have become indispensable in our everyday lives. Accomplishing a task may require the user to navigate among various apps. Unlike Web pages that are inherently interconnected through hyperlinks, mobile apps are usually isolated building blocks, and the lack of direct links between apps has largely c...