OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore, from a gender perspective, patients' expectations prior to seeking healthcare for neck or back pain, and their subsequent experiences of the care and rehabilitation they received. METHODS Thematized interviews with 12 patients, 7 women and 5 men, using open-ended questions, were analysed according to grounded theory. Each patient was interviewed...

Increasingly, both practitioners and theorists put forward " knowledge " as a deux ex machina for achieving competitiveness. Obviously, in a general sense, all firms or organizations may be said to operate on knowledge in developing their strategies, deciding on a division of labour, etc. (Blackler, 1995). This is true about mechanistic bureaucracies as well as more organic or flexible organisa...

Caving is a mass mining method that is normally applied to large, low grade orebodies because of its low production cost and high capacity. However, equipment breakdown and poor draw management can cause mining costs to exceed that of all other mining methods. One way to minimize the effect of disruptions in the mining cycle is to use Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) for long-term schedu...