Our recent issue on “Equipment for eye care” (number 73, September 2010) addressed the importance of equipment in the delivery of eye care and covered maintenance, repair, training, purchasing, and donations. This issue (number 76) addresses similar concerns around surgical instruments and consumables. For an eye unit to function, instruments must be carefully managed so that they remain in goo...

the primary purpose of this paper is to highlight for the research community and practitioners the various aspects of using vmi-type supply chains in today’s business environment as well as a number of directions for future studies. in this regard, fifty articles published in major international journals, beginning in 1995, which contribute to the vmi-type supply chains are reviewed via a syste...

Doug Engelbart's NLS system introduced working hypertext in the early 1960s. The NLS link had a syntax similar to today's HTTP uniform resource locators (URLs). NLS links pointed to specific files in specific directories on specific machines. This created a loose hyperbase, that is, an unmanaged collection of linked documents. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Engelbart's team at Stanford Rese...

This paper describes the architecture and progress in the development of the UvA soccer simulation team. The UvA-team uses a three layer model to separate simulator details, basic soccer skills and the overall control from each other. In the previous year we focused on getting the system up-and-running. The current effort is in the use of learning mechanisms for optimizing the parameters of the...

INTRODUCTION Ovarian lymphoma is a rare entity, and hydronephrosis from lymphoma is even rarer. Most reports describe a laparoscopic approach to the disease, but we report a case of hydroureteronephrosis associated with ovarian lymphoma managed completely by miniinvasive techniques. CASE REPORT A 51-year-old woman was referred to us for back pain and renal colic and computed tomography scan f...

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, metadata team at Clemson University Libraries facilitated work-from-home project, during which 14 employees across two units described collection over 2,400 photographs. From standpoint both reviewers and creators, this session provided an overview including how it was managed remotely. This presentation reflects balanced cross-unit perspective on what work...

Specialist oncology pharmacists are being trained in Japan to assist cancer treatment teams. These specialized pharmacists address patients' physical and mental problems in pharmacist-managed cancer care clinics, actively participate in formulating treatment policies, and are beneficial in offering qualitative improvements to patient services and team medical care. However, the effect of outpat...

Prolonged waiting times and length of stay in Pediatric Emergency Department, are the two of the most challenging patient and clinical outcomes of healthcare institution. These emerged due to various reasons, namely: the use of triaging process and patient flow criteria that eventually lead to bottlenecks and overcrowding in the ED. After realizing the root causes of the prolonged waiting times...

Interprofessional care has been promoted by some policy makers and health professionals as a response to rising health care costs and threats to patient safety. Proponents suggest that interprofessional models of care can reduce fragmentation and lower costs through improved coordination between different health professionals. These models encourage the collaboration of supplementary skills bet...