BACKGROUND Longitudinal generalist preceptorship experiences early in medical education can have beneficial effects on how students practise the art and science of medicine, regardless of their eventual career choices. DESCRIPTION We evaluated the first 2 years of implementation of an integrated, regional campus-based, early clinical experience programme, the Community Continuity Program, at ...

A new quasi-three-dimensional (3D) shear deformation theory, called the spectral displacement formulation (SDF), is proposed for high-precision static bending analyses of functionally graded plates. The main idea to expand unknown fields into Chebyshev series a unique form in thickness direction; truncation numbers are set be adjustable meet various application requirements. Specifically, 3D el...

We define a graded twisted-coassociative coproduct on the tensor algebra TW of any Zn-graded vector space W . If W is the desuspension space ↓V of a graded vector space V , the coderivations (resp. quadratic “degree 1” codifferentials, arbitrary odd codifferentials) of this coalgebra are 1to-1 with sequences πs, s ≥ 1, of s-linear maps on V (resp. Zn-graded Loday structures on V , sequences tha...

We study the graded derivation-based noncommutative diierential geometry of the Z 2-graded algebra M (njm) of complex (n + m) (n + m)-matrices with the \usual block matrix grading" (for n 6 = m). Beside the (innnite-dimensional) algebra of graded forms the graded Cartan calculus, graded symplectic structure, graded vector bundles, graded connections and curvature are introduced and investigated...

This paper investigates the existence of pure strategy, dominant strategy, and mixed strategy Nash equilibria in discontinuous and/or nonconvex games. We introduce a new notion of very weak continuity, called weak transfer quasi-continuity, which is weaker than the most known weak notions of continuity, including diagonal transfer continuity in Baye et al. [1993] and better-reply security in Re...

Objective: to gain an understanding of how women conceptualise continuity of maternity care. Design: a qualitative study involving in-depth semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis. Setting: a range of urban and rural public hospitals in New South Wales, Australia. Participants: 53 women aged 18-44 years (median age 27 years) receiving maternity care in 2011 2012. Findings: responses fr...

BACKGROUND Continuity of care can bring a wide range of benefits to consumers, providers and health care systems. This study aimed to understand the relationship preferences of primary care patients and their associations with patient experience of continuity of care. METHODS A questionnaire survey was conducted on 700 patients who sought medical care from a community health organisation in B...

in this paper, a new class of multifunctions, called generalized alpha (mu_{x};mu_{ y} )-continuous multifunctions, has been dened and studied. some characterizations and severalproperties concerning generalized alpha (mu_{x};mu_{ y} )-continuous multifunctions are obtained. the re-lationships between generalized alpha (mu_{x};mu_{ y} )-continuous multifunctions and some known con-ce...

this paper deals with the determination of displacement function and thermal stresses of a finite length isotropic functionally graded hollow cylinder subjected to uniform temperature field. the solution of the governing thermoelastic equation is obtained, as suggested by spencer et al. for anisotropic laminates.  numerical calculations are also carried out for fgm (functionally graded material...