In this paper we provide an overview of the ASCOT project and present intermediate results on investigations concerning address management. ASCOT considers managed vehicular networks, i.e. moving networks attached to public transport vehicles that provide network connectivity to its passengers. We briefly describe how ASCOT positions itself among other projects and activities that focus on movi...

Over the last three decades, quality of life (QoL) has been advocated as an indicator of social care outcomes for adults with intellectual disabilities. In England, the Adult Social Care Survey (ASCS) is conducted annually by local authorities to contribute to the evidence base of the care-related QoL of people receiving publicly funded adult social care. This study explores relationships betwe...

BACKGROUND The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT-SCT4) is a multi-attribute utility index designed for the evaluation of long-term social care services. The measure comprises eight attributes that capture aspects of social care-related quality of life. The instrument has previously been validated with a sample of older adults who used home care services in England. This paper aims to de...

This paper describes an approach to the In­Call control of services as developed by the ASCOT project. Emphasis is made on the application of usability principles to the practical problems presented by real service deployment within an Integrated Service Engineering environment. The ASCOT approach to the graphical control of services in­call will be described including details of practical expe...

The benefits of statin treatment in both primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been well established in multiple randomized controlled trials (RCTs). In general the safety profile of statins is good. However, most of the statin trials have an average duration that is fairly short to study the long-term effects and safety of drugs that should be taken lifelong. Th...

Department of Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK, Universidade dos Açores, Dep. de Ciências Agrárias – CITA-A (Azorean Biodiversity Group), Terra-Chã, 9700-851 Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal, Biodiversity Research Group, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial C...

AIMS The aim of this study was to determine the outcome benefits in those originally assigned atorvastatin in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial-8 years after closure of the lipid-lowering arm (LLA) of the trial (ASCOT-LLA) among the U.K. population. METHODS AND RESULTS ASCOT-LLA was a factorially designed double-blind placebo-controlled trial of atorvastatin in 10 305 hypertensive...

Due to the absence of standardized Quality Life (QoL) measures for informal family caregivers recipients long-term care (LTC) in Japan, translation and cross-cultural adapted LTC outcome are needed research evaluation. In this study, we assessed validity reliability factor structure response system translated cross-culturally Japanese version Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit Carer (J-ASCOT-Ca...