Dutch law provides rules for therapeutic relations. Basically therapeutic relations are agreements reached between a professional provider and a care seeker. Rules apply to treatment relations in somatic medicine as well as in psychiatry. Additional legislation (BOPZ) affects the involuntary hospitalization in psychiatric hospitals and the use of coercive treatment. Determinants for application...

We describe new planar multiport devices written by spatial solitons that are composed of several nonlinearly coupled components in Kerr-type media. Such devices have no radiation losses at a given wavelength. We demonstrate that, for the same relative angle between the input soliton-induced channels, one can vary the transmission coefficients into the output channels by adjusting the polarizat...

The aim of the present investigation was to assess the filarial transmission levels in houses of different structure in rural areas of Andhra Pradesh, India. During this study, ecologically-similar households were selected for entomological study. The per-man-hour density (PMHD), infection and infectivity rates, were recorded in different ranges ie, 16.1 to 77.6, 0-31.2% and 0-5.6%, respectively.

We report an increase in the proportion of genotype GI.6 norovirus outbreaks in the United States from 1.4% in 2010 to 7.7% in 2012 (p<0.001). Compared with non-GI.6 outbreaks, GI.6 outbreaks were characterized by summer seasonality, foodborne transmission, and non-health care settings.

Introduction: In 2010 the UMC Utrecht started with the introduction of patient portals for patients with chronic conditions. The evaluation concerned portals of three patient groups: adults with HIV, adolescents with CF and parents of children with CF. The portals had six modules: ‘overview treatment appointments’, ‘overview of medication and test results’, ‘e-consult (a-synchronous)’, ‘request...