Utterances that are close in time are more likely to share the same referent. A word learner who is using information about the speaker’s intended referents should be able to take advantage of this continuity and learn words more efficiently by aggregating information across multiple utterances. In the current study we use corpus data to explore the continuity of reference in caregivers’ speech...

Continuity of care (COC) has been defined as “the degree to which a series of discrete healthcare events is experienced as coherent and connected and consistent with a patient’s medical needs and personal context.” [5]. COC for patients with serious illnesses has long been regarded as important, with attention paid to many facets of continuity, including both personal or relational continuity a...

Following [KP07], we analyze surfaces arising as an infinite sequence of guided C2 surface rings. However, here we focus on constructions of too low a degree to be curvature continuous also at the extraordinary point. To characterize shape and smoothness of such surfaces, we track a sequence of local quadratic functions. Convergence of the sequence certifies curvature continuity. Otherwise, the...

Given a triangular Bézier surface of degree n, the problem of multi-degree reduction by a triangular Bézier surface of degree m with boundary constraints is investigated. This paper considers the continuity of triangular Bézier surfaces at the three corners, so that the boundary curves preserve endpoints continuity of any order α. The l2and L2-norm combined with the constrained least-squares me...

Let f(z) be analytic in the interior of a rectifiable Jordan curve C and continuous in the corresponding closed region C. The relation between continuity properties of f(z) on C and degree of approximarion to f(z) by polynomials irn(z) in z of respective degrees n, n = 1, 2, • • • , has been extensively studied. In the present paper we study the relation between continuity properties of f(z) on...

Continuity is a part of high-quality patient care. The purpose of this study was to analyse what factors are important in the continuity of patients’ care, and how well continuity is achieved in different stages of the care of day surgical patients. Day surgery has become significantly more prevalent in the past few decades, and in order for it to be carried out successfully, continuity in care...

BACKGROUND midwifery continuity of care has been shown to be beneficial to women through reducing interventions and other maternal and neonatal morbidity. In Australia, numerous government reports recognise the importance of midwifery models of care that provide continuity. Given the benefits, midwives, including new graduate midwives, should have the opportunity to work in these models of care...

Piecewise rational Bézier curves with G-continuity in the projective space provide a useful tool for shape blending applications with complex boundary conditions where visual continuity is required. This paper presents an efficient method to construct such curves given an initial sequence of rational segments Gcontinuous in the affine space. Combination of degree elevation and linear rational r...

We construct polynomial approximations of Dzjadyk type (in terms of the k -th modulus of continuity, k ≥ 1 ) for analytic functions defined on a continuum E in the complex plane, which simultaneously interpolate at given points of E . Furthermore, the error in this approximation is decaying as e−cn α strictly inside E , where c and α are positive constants independent of the degree n of the app...