Purpose: Recent work on diffusion of innovation insists on the importance of the processual dimensions of an innovation’s adoption. Context: In the course of a pilot-project aiming to implement three service integration networks for people losing their autonomy, we performed an analysis of the prior conceptions the various actors held of two founding principals: integration and coordination. Th...

It is argued that the topological approach to the (anti-)symmetrisation condition for the quantum state of a collection of identical particles, defined in the ‘reduced’ configuration space, is particularly natural from the perspective of de Broglie–Bohm pilot-wave theory. Typeset using REVTEX Sub-Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University, 10 Merton Street, Oxford OX1 4JJ, U.K. (e-mail: harvey.br...

BACKGROUND Historically, torso obesity has been difficult to quantify. Digital technology has recently encroached into body contouring surgery but has not been developed by surgeons to aid with their anatomical mandates. METHODS For 3 years, the authors tested a three-dimensional digital body camera that used nonintrusive white light phase profilometry to produce a "point cloud" image of the ...

Nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, psychologists and other professionals or specialists come together to provide care to home residing patients, making continuous assessment, diagnosis and treatment possible beyond the walls of hospitals. Such teams of professionals are focused on each individual patient, and are virtual, i.e. they make decisions without being together physically, dynamically, ...

BACKGROUND Several previous global REDD+ cost studies have been conducted, demonstrating that payments for maintaining forest carbon stocks have significant potential to be a cost-effective mechanism for climate change mitigation. These studies have mostly followed highly aggregated top-down approaches without estimating the full range of REDD+ costs elements, thus underestimating the actual co...

BACKGROUND Children with chronic complex-medical conditions comprise a small minority of children who require substantial healthcare with major implications for hospital utilization and costs in pediatrics. Community-Based Pediatric Palliative Care (CBPPC) provides a holistic approach to patient care that can improve their quality of life and lead to reduced costs of hospital care. This study's...

OBJECTIVES In 2006, the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges reported that the shortage (≥ 1,500) of public health veterinarians is expected to increase tenfold by 2020. In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Preventive Medicine Fellows conducted a pilot project among CDC veterinarians to identify national veterinary public health workforce concerns and pot...

Leprosy control is nothing more and nothing less than trying to interrupt transmission of the disease by first diagnosing and then treating all the active leprosy patients with a sufficient amount of drugs for a sufficiently long time. Though this seems very easy in theory, it proves to be extremely difficult in practice, and almost none or only very few of the leprosy control projects have ach...

to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions” [2]. While written patient information readability has been used in health student teaching, there is minimal literature focusing on health literacy understanding and experiences among medical students [3]. A pilot project was undertaken at Harvard Medical School to evaluate hea...

VIDEO 1. (a) A droplet of an approximate diameter of 1 mm bounces on the surface of a vibrating oil bath. (b) For sufficiently large values of the vertical forcing, a droplet may spontaneously self-propel across the interface. Droplet pairs may interact through their wave fields, either (c) locking into orbits or (d) walking side by side in a promenade mode. (e) Multiple drops may organize into...