For over thirty years, there have been predictions that the widespread clinical use of computers was imminent. Yet the "wave" has never broken. In this article, two broad time periods are examined: the 1960's to the 1980's and the 1980's to the present. Technology immaturity, health administrator focus on financial systems, application "unfriendliness," and physician resistance were all barrier...

The decade of the 1980’s will likely be viewed as a time when educational reform was a major topic on the nation’s agenda. Critics at the local, state, and national levels have challenged the quality of the country’s educational system and many have indicated that programs do not measure up to public expectations. However, Webb (1959), Shinn (1976), Kimmons (1977), Clary (1977) Jewell (1979), a...

Field-effect transistor (FET)-based biosensors (BioFETs) have undergone great progress especially in the last decade, since they were first realized in 1980. Recently, BioFETs have become one of the most important branches of biosensors. This paper briefly reviewed the operating principles of BioFETs and summarized the improvement and application of BioFETs, finally, the future prospects of Bio...

Monitoring of permafrost has been ongoing since 1978 in the Abisko area, northernmost Sweden, when measurements of active layer thickness started. In 1980, boreholes were drilled in three mires in the area to record permafrost temperatures. Recordings were made twice per year, and the last data were obtained in 2002. During the International Polar Year (2007-2008), new boreholes were drilled wi...

This article explores immigrants’ socioeconomic success consequential to their choice of neighborhood. We describe and analyze seven aspects of socioeconomic success during the 1980s for 14 immigrant groups in five metropolitan areas. Exposure indices measuring aspects of the census tracts in which these groups lived in 1980 are calculated and analyzed. Multiple regression explores the degree t...

INTRODUCTION Over the last decade considerable interest has been expressed in diarreme breccias ofpc~ssible kimberlitic affinity in British Columbia (Fipke, 1983; Fipk.: and Capell, 1983; Grieve, 1981 and 1982; Roberts, et a/., 1980; Woodcock, 1978; etc.). This interest has been heightened by the reported recent discovery of diamonds in pipes north of Golden (Durnmet, rr a / . . 1985; Northcote...

Surface air temperatures can directly affect the thermal state of permafrost in region Northern Hemisphere (PRONH). It is necessary to understand trends and consider actual CMIP future scenario output instead a linear temperature increase over different regions. In this study, from 23 models sixth coupled-model intercomparison project (CMIP6) are evaluated against observational data PRONH. show...

OBJECTIVES We examined whether the changes in clinical practice with time correlated with the changes in the 90-day mortality following pneumonectomy. METHODS The clinical records of consecutive patients undergoing pneumonectomy in two French centres from 1980 to 2009 were prospectively collected. The 90-day postoperative course was retrospectively studied according to clinical characteristic...

eThis article draws upon the Roman Catholic distinction between "ordinary" and "extraordinary" means of medical treatment to analyze the case of "Jodie" and "Mary," the Maltese conjoined twins whose surgical separation was ordered by the English courts over the objection of their Roman Catholic parents and Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Roman Catholic Cardinal Archbishop of Westminister. It attemp...