Reports of how different countries are responding to the need to develop more integrated health and social care services for older adults can provide useful lessons for other health systems. However an understanding of how the wider structural, political, economic and cultural context affects implementation of these models of care is essential when considering the potential for models to be sca...

Building on Tangcharoensathien and colleagues’ description of four tactics used by the tobacco, alcohol, processed food, and breast milk substitute industries to interfere with the development and implementation of health policies, we present a fifth tactic: trade and investment disputes. We describe recent examples of trade and investment claims filed by the tobacco in...

This paper describes implementation strategies for external coupling of distributed building system component models. This approach differs from the traditional way of developing software, where additional models are added by incorporating new modules in an existing program. This results in a simulation environment that is more flexible, practical, and powerful than the sum of the individual so...

TEAM Lab at Eotvos Lorand University connects tightly Informatics teacher training to real teaching practices so that: Informatics teachers can get acquainted with methods, topics, and possibilities for integrating ICT into subject areas, while teachers of different subjects would get ideas on forms of applying ICT tools to enhance subject learning. This paper describes a pilot project involvin...

We report the implementation of the central building block of a procedure for fully polarizing a subset of two-level quantum systems which are initially only partially polarized. This procedure consists simply of a sequence of unitary operations and incurs only a quasi-linear overhead in the number of quantum systems and operations required. The key building block involves three quantum systems...

We report the implementation of the central building block of the Schulman-Vazirani procedure for fully polarizing a subset of two-level quantum systems which are initially only partially polarized. This procedure consists of a sequence of unitary operations and incurs only a quasi-linear overhead in the number of quantum systems and operations required. The key building block involves three qu...

A fuzzy microcontroller is presented implementing a simplified inference mechanism. Fuzzification, rule composition and defuzzification are carried out by means of (basically) analog current-mode CMOS circuits operating in strong inversion. Also a voltage interface is provided with the external world. Combining analog and digital techniques allow a programming capability.