Morphea is a localized form of scleroderma in which there is predominant skin involvement, with occasional involvement of subjacent muscles and usually spares the internal organs. Thyroid dysfunction has been reported in systemic sclerosis but it has been rarely reported in morphea. There are few case reports of plaque-type morphea associated with autoimmune thyroiditis but generalized morphea ...

We present an expected utility maximisation framework for optimally controlling a portfolio of options. By combining the replication approach to option pricing with ideas of the martingale approach to (stock) portfolio optimisation we arrive at an explicit solution of the option portfolio problem. Its characteristics are illustrated by some speciic examples. As an application, we calculate an o...

The significance and the influence of the concurrential environment are crucially important for enterprisers. So, the firms’ leaderships are now obliged to give up the mentality of the “exclusively inner look” and to take into account, effectively, the concurrential environment in which they function in their actions of reprojection of the managerial system in general and especially of their or...

The Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are gathering information or data from different sensors nodes sent in remote areas and after that transmitted to a focal controller which then oversees and controls this information. Wireless communications for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is obliged to applications where wired correspondences to the remote site a...

The Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are gathering information or data from different sensors nodes sent in remote areas and after that transmitted to a focal controller which then oversees and controls this information. Wireless communications for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is obliged to applications where wired correspondences to the remote site a...

Willstätter and Stoll have studied the rate of photosynthesis as a function of chlorophyll content. However, their experiments fail to reveal any regular relationship between these two quantities, probably because, in order to obtain material differing widely in chlorophyll content, they were obliged to use leaves which were not comparable in other respects. The writer describes a method for va...

Access to language services is a required and foundational component of care for patients with limited English proficiency (LEP). National standards for medical interpreting set by the US Department of Health and Human Services and by the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care establish the role of qualified medical interpreters in the provision of care in the United States. In the vig...

The objectives and assumptions of health care reform have changed repeatedly during the past century and may now be entering a new historical phase as a result of the "new economy" rooted in information technology. In a high-growth context, proponents of reform may no longer feel obliged to bundle expanded coverage with tighter cost containment. At the same time, the new digital environment may...

Social networks can have asymmetric relationships. In the online social network Twitter, a follower receives tweets from a followed person but the followed person is not obliged to subscribe to the channel of the follower. Thus, it is natural to consider the dissemination of information in directed networks. In this work we use the mean-field approach to derive differential equations that descr...

Since 1995, registered nurses and midwives have been obliged to develop and maintain a professional portfolio of evidence reflecting the learning activities that they have undertaken and how these have informed and influenced their practice. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that rather then just a retrospective account of continuing professional development activities, a portfolio can ...