Long-term care is not easy to define. The boundaries between primary and acute and long-term care have become blurred. It is not surprising, therefore, that there is no consensus on the extent to which physicians are, and should be, involved in long-term care delivery. The purpose of this article is to explore the current and potential role of physicians in long-term care and the challenges to ...

We, organisers and participants of the 1st European conference on ‘Bridging Knowledge in Long-Term Care and Support: Crossing Boundaries between Disabilities and Ageing’, funded by the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC) and held in Barcelona, Spain, 5–7 March 2009, acknowledge the importance and relevance of knowledge transfer between the fields of disability and ageing for the Eu...

review and classification of electric load forecasting (lf) techniques based on artificial neuralnetworks (ann) is presented. a basic anns architectures used in lf reviewed. a wide range of annoriented applications for forecasting are given in the literature. these are classified into five groups:(1) anns in short-term lf, (2) anns in mid-term lf, (3) anns in long-term lf, (4) hybrid anns inlf,...

PURPOSE Bulb syringes can be used for the self-clearance of earwax and, in the short term, appear effective. We compared the long-term effectiveness of self-irrigation using a bulb syringe with routine care in United Kingdom (UK) family practice clinics where irrigating ears to remove wax is a common procedure. METHODS We assessed the impact on health service utilization as a follow-up to a s...

Increasing pumping costs and declining well capacities in regions like the Southern High Plains of Texas are requiring producers to adapt cropping practices for usewith irrigation levels that vary between complete replacement of crop evapotranspiration (ET) to none (i.e., dryland production). Grain sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is a crop suited to both dryland and various deficit irriga...

OBJECTIVE Irrigation of the distal part of the large bowel is a nonsurgical alternative for patients with defaecation disturbances. In our institution, all patients with defaecation disturbances, not responding to medical treatment and biofeedback therapy, were offered retrograde colonic irrigation (RCI). This study is aimed at evaluating the long-term feasibility and outcome of RCI. METHODS ...

The Dynamic Core and Global Workspace hypotheses were independently put forward to provide mechanistic and biologically plausible accounts of how brains generate conscious mental content. The Dynamic Core proposes that reentrant neural activity in the thalamocortical system gives rise to conscious experience. Global Workspace reconciles the limited capacity of momentary conscious content with t...