PURPOSE The purpose of this article is to expand the understanding of self-management support by describing factors that contribute to implementing a comprehensive self-management program in primary care. METHODS Four rural health centers in medically underserved areas participated in a study to document the implementation of a self-management program. This program consisted of a social marke...

For special research questions in the medical domain a variety of clinical data from different hospitals and centers are needed. To organize a large study, for instance, the access to the own hospital information system is not sufficient. The OpEN.SC-project provides a metadata repository about clinical and research data and interconnects research centers of Nephrology including data exchange. ...

Detonation nanodiamond particles (DND) contain highly-stable nitrogen-vacancy (N-V) centers, making it important for quantum-optical and biotechnology applications. However, due to the small particle size, the N-V concentrations are believed to be intrinsically very low, spawning efforts to understand the formation of N-V centers and vacancies, and increase their concentration. Here we show tha...

this study aims to investigate the effective factors on non-development of tourism industry in golestan province. the standard questionnaires are used to doing this descriptive, cross-sectional and tentative that those be scattered after measuring their validity and reliability based on simple-random sampling(for tourists) and taxonomy-sampling(for experts) between tourists and experts. the ana...

This paper discusses ways to reconcile the United Nations Millennium Development Goals with environmental sustainability at the national and international levels. The authors argue that development and better use of sustainability relevant knowledge is key, and that this requires capacity building globally, and especially in the less developed regions of the world. Also essential is stronger in...

The knowledge mechanisms of call centers have been emphasized by many pervious studies. Yet there is little empirical research that examines the call centers’ influence on firms’ combinative capabilities. To address this gap, this study examines call center enabled organizational mechanisms that contribute to the firms’ combinative capabilities. The study identifies differential effects from th...

To curtail data centers’ huge cooling power consumption and water demand (for cooling), air-side economizer has been increasingly adopted to cool down servers. Recently, another sustainability practice, rainwater harvesting, has also seen a growing adoption in data centers, potentially leading to water self-sufficiency without connecting to water utilities to supply cooling water. Nonetheless, ...