INTRODUCTION The Chronicity Prevention and Care Programme set up by the Health Plan for Catalonia 2011-2015 has been an outstanding and excellent opportunity to create a new integrated care model in Catalonia. People with chronic conditions require major changes and transformation within the current health and social system. The new and gradual context of ageing, increase in the number of chron...

Background Although scientists often generically refer to the procedure by which plants are genetically engineered as “transformation”, it really entails two separate processes. The first, transformation, involves stable integration of DNA into the chromosome of an individual plant cell. The second step, regeneration, is the process by which individual transformed cells are coaxed, through horm...

Ethiopia’s economy is growing very fast, in fact, the fastest growing non-oil economy in Africa and one of the top ten fastest growing economies in the world. Ethiopia’s GDP has been growing with an average of 11.2% for the last eight consecutive years and much faster than average annual growth in Africa as a whole (nearly 6 percent). Ethiopia’s per capita income has more than doubled over the ...

A new technique to extract road edges in the roadfollowing algorithm for autonomous road vehicle navigation is described. It is based on finding road edges on a subsampled plan-view of a portion of the road ahead of the vehicle. The method is illustrated in the real-time identification of road edges using a fast vertical edge detector and link operator applied to the transformed plan view. Loca...

 The 2014 EBRI/Greenwald & Associates Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey (CEHCS) finds that 15 percent of the privately insured population was enrolled in a consumer-driven health plan (CDHP); 11 percent was enrolled in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP); and 74 percent was enrolled in more traditional coverage. Overall, 26 million individuals with private insurance were enrolled in a...