Cochrane Collaboration Forms New Nursing Care Network The Cochrane Collaboration is an international nonpro¢t organization dedicated to increasing access to high-quality evidence on the effects of health care treatments. In the spring of 2009, the Cochrane Collaboration created a new international network speci¢c to the ¢eld of nursing, bringing the total number of Cochrane networks to 16. Coch...

This paper studies exponential convergence index assignment of stochastic control systems from the viewpoint of backward stochastic di'erential equation. Like deterministic control systems, it is shown that the exact controllability of an open-loop stochastic system is equivalent to the possibility of assigning an arbitrary exponential convergence index to the solution of the closed-loop stocha...

As Nursing Open enters its third year, it is worth recording that this January 2016 issue was published almost a month in advance. Little did we expect this kind of success when I was planning the launch of the journal with Wiley partner Griselda Campbell in a small tea room in a very wet and windy Cork, Ireland during the 2014 INANE conference. As ever, it is much easier to predict the past th...

This is Part 2 of a 2-part article on the new and emerging characteristics and elements of leadership for changing, fast-paced organizations. As we leave the 20th century workplace and are increasingly driven by innovation and technological transformation, new roles are demanded from everyone. Leadership expression now calls for a different emphasis and skillset from those that predominated in ...

Network motifs play an important role in the qualitative analysis and quantitative characterization of networks. The feed-forward loop is a semantically important and statistically highly significant motif. In this paper, we extend the definition of the feed-forward loop to subgraphs of arbitrary size. To avoid the complexity of path enumeration, we define generalized feed-forward loops as pair...

In this paper we aim at obtaining insight into how a multivariable feedback controller works, with special attention to serial processes. Serial processes are important in the process industry, and the structure of this process makes it simple to classify the different elements of the multivariable controller. In particular, we focus on the difference between the feedforward and feedback parts ...

Fast and accurate transient response is the main requirement in electric machine position control. Conventional cascade control structure has sluggish response due to the limitation of inner control loop bandwidth. In this paper, in order to decrease the Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) transient response time it can be used reference model using feed-forward signals. In this structure...