Mikro Systems Inc. (MSI) has developed a high volume manufacturing process for producing complex, netshape, micro-to-meso scale structures from advanced materials comprised of powdered metals, ceramics, and polymers. This process, called Tomo-Lithographic-Molding (TLMTM), hinges upon a high-resolution master tool composed from lithographically micro-machined layers, precisely aligned and stack ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use theories of institutional logics and institutional entrepreneurship to examine how and why macro-, meso-, and micro-level influences inter-relate in the implementation of integrated transitional care out of hospital in the English National Health Service. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted an ethnographic case study of a hospital and su...

The purpose of this paper is to explore how rationing decisions are made by government and hospital policy makers and practitioners, at the micro, meso and macro levels of analysis, through examining the rationing of cardiac care in a Canadian hospital, and discussing how the interaction between policy makers and practitioners at each of these levels affects the process and outcomes. Data were ...

Architectural limitations in many situations make it necessary for the RC shear walls to be extended in plan in different directions at a single location that makes them a 3D configuration. Analysis of such walls is very challenging. In this research about 450 cases of 3D shear walls are considered with different shapes and heights. L, T and H-shape walls are studied. They are nonlinearly analy...

In recent years and throughout the developed world, policymakers have encouraged implementation of digital patient-clinician interaction. Our focus is on Danish general practice setting where email consultations were implemented as a mandatory service in 2009 now constitute 21% all practice. Drawing upon strong structuration theory (SST), our analysis sets out to explore how are represented str...

Under the background of the new media era with the rapid development of interactive advertising, this paper used case study method based on the summary of the research of the communication effect of interactive advertising from both domestic and foreign academia. This paper divided interactive advertising into three types to examine ---interactive ads on official website, interactive ads based ...

Most shared decision-making (SDM) models within healthcare have been limited to the patient-physician dyad. As a first step towards promoting an interprofessional approach to SDM in primary care, this article reports how an interprofessional and interdisciplinary group developed and achieved consensus on a new interprofessional SDM model. The key concepts within published reviews of SDM models ...