Background: Leadership Walk Rounds (WRs) have been described as a promising intervention to achieve a culture of safety by means of engaging leaders at different levels in patient safety issues. The aim was to investigate WRs carried out in a Swedish county council in terms of advantages, disadvantages and opportunities for improvement, as perceived by the participating frontline staff members,...

BACKGROUND The hemodynamic basis for increased pulse pressure (PP) with aging remains controversial. The classic paradigm attributes a predominant role to increased pulse wave velocity (PWV) and premature wave reflections (WRs). A controversial new paradigm proposes increased forward pressure wave amplitude (FWA), attributed to proximal aortic characteristic impedance (Zc), as the predominant f...

Otilonium bromide (OB) is a spasmolytic drug successfully used for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Its efficacy has been attributed to the block of L- and T-type Ca2+ channels and muscarinic and tachykinin receptors in the smooth muscle. Furthermore, in healthy rats, repeated OB administration modified neurotransmitter expression and function suggesting other mechanisms of acti...

IC10 is the nearest starburst galaxy, as revealed both by its Hα surface brightness and the large number of Wolf-Rayet stars (WRs) per unit area. The relative number of known WCto WN-type WRs has been thought to be unusually high (∼ 2), unexpected for IC10’s metallicity. In this Letter we report the first results of a new and deeper survey for WRs in IC10. We sucessfully detected all of the spe...

Ward rounds (WRs) have been a valuable resource in medical education for both learners and teachers since first recorded in 1660. Previous studies have shown that over 50% of junior doctor learning occurs on WRs. However, postgraduate medical education in the UK has changed significantly over recent years with the adoption of the foundation programme and the application of the European Working ...

We consider the VC-dimension of a set of the neural networks of depth s with w adjustable parameters that has h hidden units of activation functions of at most q segments of degree at most d polynomials. When d 2 and q 2, the VC-dimension is O(ws(s log d + log(qh=s))), O(ws((h=s) log q) + log d), and (ws log(dqh=s)). When d 2 and q = 1, it is (ws log d). When d = 1 and q 2, it is (ws log(qh=s))...

An innovated wastewater resourcing system (WRS) was formal proposed to couple the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) and electricity generation by microbial fuel cell (MFC) with the proper controlled acidification digester. This paper gave the carbon audit and cost analysis of WRS to estimate its carbon emission, energy saving and profit production. Results showed WRS extracts 18% of in...

______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The effects of production system on welfare traits, growth performance and meat quality of ducks were explored. A total of 120 newly hatched ducklings were randomly assigned to three groups: i) floor-reared system (FRS); ii) welfare-reared system (WRS) and iii) net-reared system (NRS) (n = 8 duckling...

s of papers accepted for presentation The Sketch of a Polymorphic Symphony Ralf Laemmel Functional strategies were previously defined as first-class generic functions which can traverse into terms while mixing uniform and type-specific behaviour. The first-class status is witnessed by a combinator style of generic programming. This symphony reconstructs functional strategies as an amalgamation ...