Long-wavelength lasers have great potential to become a new-generation drive laser for tabletop coherent light sources in the soft X-ray region. Because of the significantly low conversion efficiency from a long-wavelength light field to high-order harmonics, their pulse characterization has been carried out by measuring the carrier-envelope phase and/or spatial dependences of high harmonic spe...

A hundred million pounds is a lot of money. NHS England has pledged to spend as much as this on recruitment agency fees to bring in GPs from abroad. The aim is for 5000 extra GPs. Overseas recruitment will make up a large portion of this new wave of doctors. In the 1960s, general practice in the NHS was saved by Indian and Pakistani doctors, at a time when a third to a half of UK medical gradua...

BACKGROUND Treatment fidelity has previously been defined as the degree to which a treatment or intervention is delivered to participants as intended. Underreporting of fidelity in primary care randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of complex interventions reduces our confidence that findings are due to the treatment or intervention being investigated, rather than unknown confounders. AIM We ai...

OBJECTIVE To develop an instrument to measure organizational attributes relevant for family practices using the perspectives of clinicians, nurses, and staff. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING Clinicians, nurses, and office staff (n=640) from 51 community family medicine practices. DESIGN A survey, designed to measure a practices' internal resources for change, for use in family medicine practices...

BACKGROUND Electronic patient records are generally coded using extensive sets of codes but the significance of the utilisation of individual codes may be unclear. Item response theory (IRT) models are used to characterise the psychometric properties of items included in tests and questionnaires. This study asked whether the properties of medical codes in electronic patient records may be chara...

U radu se razmatraju terenska istraživanja kao složena metoda u metodološkom sustavu turističke geografije, znanstvene discipline društvene geografije. Turizam, koji je geografski fenomen, istražuje se kao složen dinamički sustav u stalnim mijenama i transformacijama. Složenost turizma proistječe iz njegovih prostornih, društveno-ekonomskih, političkih, kulturnih, psiholoških, povijesnih, admin...

We report on an optical field synthesizer consisting of a CEO-phase stabilized octave-spanning Ti:sapphire laser oscillator, a double-LCD prism-based pulse shaper, and a SPIDER pulse characterization apparatus. This field synthesizer allows for generating pulses with durations as short as 3.6 fs and enables to control the electric field on a sub-cycle scale. Within the limits of the ultrabroad ...

INTRODUCTION The influence of indigeneity is widely recognised as a health determinant; however the impact of the utilisation of the indigenous language on health care has not been closely examined. AIM To explore the Maori language (te reo) as a determinant of health from a Maori patient's perspective. METHODS Maori patients were recruited through Maori health networks and the snowballing ...

We review various aspects of (infinite) quantum group symmetries in 2D massive quantum field theories. We discuss how these symmetries can be used to exactly solve the integrable models. A possible way for generalizing to three dimensions is shortly described.. Series of lectures given at the 91 Cargese school, New symmetry principles in quantum field theory. * Laboratoire de la Direction des s...