BACKGROUND Understanding and addressing the needs of frail persons is an emerging health priority for Nova Scotia and internationally. Primary healthcare (PHC) providers regularly encounter frail persons in their daily clinical work. However, routine identification and measurement of frailty is not standard practice and, in general, there is a lack of awareness about how to identify and respond...

In the past two decades, ideal planning has been used for the multiple criteria decision making problem solving. The issue is raised here is that how to do a program to achieve the best and most comprehensive program that it has well run ability? Because of costly medical equipment production process, it should pay more attention to production planning. In this research, this was carried out in...

Since the late 1990s, health human resource (HHR) policy in Canadian health care has been a mixture of consensus and conflict. Consensus appears to have emerged about the broad policy goals for Canadian HHR planning: immediate recruitment and retention goals, and long-term goals of greater cost-effectiveness and productivity from the health care workforce. This consensus has heightened in the w...

I-DIAG is an attempt to understand how to take the collective discussions of a large group of people and distill the messages and documents into more succinct, durable knowledge. I-DIAG is a distributed environment that includes two separate applications, CyberForum and Consolidate. The goals of the project, the architecture of IDIAG, and the two applications are described here.

We describe the design and implementation of LibNBC a library that implements nonblocking collective operations. Its main goals are high portability and high performance. The library is written in ANSI C on top of MPI-1. This document describes the internal design, implementation and various internal and external programming interfaces of LibNBC.

study of collective actions is related to some of the most important issues in contemporary sociology such as cooperation, collective decision making, emergence of social norms etc. this paper in four steps presents a framework for studying collective actions. these steps are related to characteristics of collective actions (cooperation and common good), factors effecting the emergence of colle...

The on-going EU funded project Prometheus (FP7-214901) aims at establishing a general framework which links fundamental sensing tasks to automated cognition processes enabling interpretation and short-term prediction of individual and collective human behaviours in unrestricted environments as well as complex human interactions. To achieve the aforementioned goals, the Prometheus consortium wor...

The market metaphor offers a promising form of human computation for gathering and aggregating individual opinions into a collective point of view for groups of people. In this article, we identify different kinds of market forms, their specific goals, and their participants’ behavior. Building on this, we first determine appropriate reward designs for a good functioning of the markets as opini...