Health and health care need to be distinguished from each other for no better reason than that the former is often incorrectly seen as a direct function of the latter. Heath is clearly not the mere absence of disease. Good Health confers on a person or groups freedom from illness and the ability to realize one's potential. Health is therefore best understood as the indispensable basis for defin...

Research on the systems side of Computer Science straddles the line between science and engineering. Both aspects are important, so neither side should be ignored in favor of the other. In my research, I have sought to discover the underlying nature of the mechanisms responsible for a given behavior. Using this understanding, I could create a simple model of the process whose underlying science...

Alpine grazing reduces blazing’ is a widely and strongly held view concerning the effects of livestock grazing on fuels, and therefore fire behaviour and impact, in Australia’s high country landscapes. As a test of this hypothesis, we examined the patterns of burning across the alpine (treeless) landscapes of the Bogong High Plains in Victoria, following the extensive fires of January 2003. Dat...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Integrated care pathways (ICP) may not reduce disability, institutionalization, or duration of hospitalization compared with conventional multidisciplinary team (MDT) care in organized stroke rehabilitation. Their potential to improve patient heath status or satisfaction with care is not known. METHODS A comparison of quality of life, caregiver strain, and patient/careg...

BACKGROUND Species movement responses to landscape structures have been studied using a variety of methods, but movement research is still in need of simple methods that help predicting and comparing movements across structurally different landscapes. We demonstrate how habitat-specific movement models can be used to disentangle causes of differentiated movement patterns in structurally differe...

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