BACKGROUND Providing care for adolescents with type 1 diabetes is complex, demanding, and often unsuccessful. Guided self-determination (GSD) is a life skills approach that has been proven effective in caring for adults with type 1 diabetes. To improve care, GSD was revised for adolescents, their parents, and interdisciplinary healthcare providers (HCP) to create GSD-Youth (GSD-Y). We evaluated...

Motivation The complex structure and increasing size of information that has to be managed in today’s applications calls for flexible mechanisms for storing such information, making it easily and efficiently accessible, and facilitating its change and evolution over time. The paradigm of graph structured data (GSD) [5] has gained popularity recently as an alternative to traditional relational d...

Green stem disorder (GSD) is an important agronomical problem in soybean production because it delays leaf and senescence complicates the harvest. However, a rapid precise diagnosis of GSD has not yet been established. In this study, effect depodding on vegetative storage protein (VSP) accumulation was investigated GSD-susceptible cultivar ‘Tachinagaha (Tc)’ GSD-resistant experimental line ‘Tou...

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence and risk factors of gallstone disease (GSD) in Taiwan. DESIGN Descriptive and cross-sectional. METHODS A prospective ultrasonographic study of GSD was conducted in 3647 Chinese subjects who received a paid hospital physical check-up. Their demographic characteristics and biochemical parameters were recorded and compared. Ultrasonographic diagnosis reveale...

Agile software development practices are rapidly replacing traditional and apparently more disciplined methodologies. However, empirical evidence suggests that organizations experience varying levels of success as more structured processes are traded for more agile ones. Using an autoethnographic approach, we reflect on how the various practices of XP discipline time-space relations amongst dev...

In GSD, trusting working relationships is critical for the success of the strategic goals of the organization. In order for an organization to build and maintain this relationship there must be a process in place. This paper outlines the use of a KMS which integrates the overall knowledge of an organization and helps in easy access and sharing of this knowledge among the distributed development...