A ten year review of developments in the organisation and management of allied health services in Australian acute care public hospitals reveals a steady transformation away from a medically managed universal model towards more complex and contested models of governance. This article revisits early observations about the reorganisation of allied health services and presents more recent research...

Drs. Cellini and Valentini describe the developments in the management of rectal cancers over the past decades, the results of major trials, and the conclusions members of the medical community have reached concerning these developments and results, which have led to both areas of agreement and controversies. Better imaging, improved surgical techniques, and the integration of radiotherapy alon...

R ealization that online communities result in "stickier" E-business relationships is spurring new developments in related collaborative technology platforms. Recent developments in WWW-based collaborative technologies are being heralded as the enablers of the knowledge based E-business enterprises. Research and practice on collaborative technologies for enabling these E-business models can ben...

Three-dimensional mapping has extensively developed in the last decade; geological mapping being the area where these developments are more striking. 3D geological mapping has a myriad of applications in the domains of basin analysis, geophysics, geostatistics, geothermal and energy resources, etc. A parallel domain of development has been three-dimensional groundwater modelling: regional groun...

Stable isotope analysis is a powerful tool for assessing plant carbon and water relations and their impact on biogeochemical processes at different scales. Our processbased understanding of stable isotope signals, as well as technological developments, has progressed significantly, opening new frontiers in ecological and interdisciplinary research. This has promoted the broad utilisation of car...

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) is a cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) technique for mapping regional myocardial blood flow. It does not require any contrast agents, is compatible with stress testing, and can be performed repeatedly or even continuously. ASL-CMR has been performed with great success in small-animals, but sensitivity to date has been poor in large animals and humans and remai...

With the increasing demand for energy sources, a further development hydropower energy resource will be an inevitable choice for China’s resource strategy. The cascade hydropower station construction produced serious impacts on the regional eco-environment. The most obvious characteristics of impacts caused by the cascade hydropower plant development are progressive, cumulative and regional, wh...

Because of heterogeneity across regions, economic policy measures are increasingly targeted at the regional level, and the need for forecasts at the regional level is rapidly increasing. The data available to compute regional forecasts is usually based on a pseudo-panel of a limited number of observations over time, and a large number of areas (regions) strongly interacting with each other. The...

during the past 500 years, iran and russia have experienced many ups and downs in their relations which have been accompanied with enmity and amity. these relations varied from cooperation under the safavids to enmity, war and interventions under the qajar dynasty, then to hostile and sometimes friendly relations under the pahlavi rule, and finally to collaborations within the past two decades ...