magnetic anisotropy C. Burrowes, N. Vernier, J.-P. Adam, L. Herrera Diez, K. Garcia, I. Barisic, G. Agnus, S. Eimer, Joo-Von Kim, T. Devolder, A. Lamperti, R. Mantovan, B. Ockert, E. E Fullerton, and D. Ravelosona Institut d’Electronique Fondamentale, Universit! e Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France UMR CNRS 8622, 91405 Orsay, France Laboratorio MDM, IMM-CNR, Via C. Olivetti 2, 20864 Agrate Brianza ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the perceived readiness of Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollees to use information technologies (IT) in order to facilitate improvements in the application processes for these public insurance programs. METHODS We conducted a concurrent mixed method study of Medicaid and CHIP enrollees in a southern state. We conducted focus groups to identify ...

To cope with possible stressful events after colorectal cancer surgery, patients need to be prepared for the early postoperative phase. Complementary written information is often used, but requires improvement. The overall aim for this thesis was to describe patient reported stressful events and coping strategies and with a person-centred approach characterize existing and co-design new patient...

Purpose – This paper describes the application of semantic knowledge technology to a case study in intelligent content management, specifically the BT digital library. The intention is to test the technology being developed within semantically-enabled knowledge technology (SEKT) and provide feedback to the development process. This will verify the viability of our technology and verify that we ...

We present a novel approach to enhance avalanche companion rescue using wearable sensing technologies. The time to find and extricate victims is most crucial: once buried by an avalanche, survival chances drop dramatically already after the first 15 minutes. Current technology offers only information on the location of a single victim, however statistics show that in many case there are multipl...

The objective of this long term study will be to determine factors that may influence the IT audit process and develop a model that can be used to improve process quality. Using focus groups of internal auditors at one large, health care products and services company we identify factors rated as critical by one or more of these groups and develop a first draft of a quality model. This model cou...

This paper investigates the dynamics of Total Factor Productivity at the establishment level. We introduce technology transfer into a framework with heterogeneous firms and ongoing entry and exit. We find evidence that convergence to the frontier is statistically and quantitatively important. Foreign multinationals make up a significant proportion of establishments at the technological frontier...

In this study two currently relevant aspects of using medical assistive technologies were addressed-security and privacy. In a two-step empirical approach that used focus groups (n = 19) and a survey (n = 104), users' requirements for the use of medical technologies were collected and evaluated. Specifically, we focused on the perceived importance of data security and privacy issues. Outcomes s...

Liu et al. [1] explained the possible cariostatic mechanisms of the combined fluoride-laser treatment. They suggested that a laser-induced purification of the human enamel hydroxy apatite structure takes place and plays the major role in this cariostatic process. They also mentioned that the low-energy laser treatment has a photo thermal effect that may cause a reduction in enamel permeability....

This literature review highlights the tension between cohesiveness and incoherence in operationalizing categories of educational technology professionals. Literature on learning technologists, educational technologists, e-learning technologists, information and communications technology coordinators and information technology coordinators was analyzed through a multilevel model of comparative e...