ID No : ACM-01 ABSTRACT In the last decade, an increasing attention has been given to the development of repairing capabilities in materials, with an emphasis in specific strategies that can promote self-healing, with or without external triggers. Self-healing has opened several new possibilities, especially in applications where long-term reliability is demanded and either maintenance or repla...

Autonomic computing is a grand challenge in computing. It aims to produce distributed software that has the properties of self-healing, selforganizing, self-protecting and self-optimizing. This paper focuses on the challenge of injecting only self-healing properties into existing programs that targets the Java Virtual Machine. The byte code is analyzed and additional code is injected to automat...

Using a feminist perspective, this paper explores the roots of the practice of healing and medicine. It traces the role of women in health care from prehistorical times, through the present, and into the future discussing the changing paradigms that the author identifies as (a) the Prototypic Paradigm: Mysticism and Healing; (b) the Scientific Paradigm: Curing; and (c) the Paradigm of Inclusion...

Literature demonstrating the importance of social relationships for cancer survivorship is accumulating. Building on that literature, the term "Healing Ties" refers to the scientific and popular factors supporting the idea that relationships and community are essential for healing. However, difficulties arise in assessing the effect of social support for survivorship.The current paper reviews t...

When we take the time to face internalized oppression, anything want becomes possible. Urban Atabex Organizing and Healing in Community Network invites organizers agents of change be community, heal from create another world that know is possible, for ourselves, family, world. Through community healing circles liberation workshops, this work dedicated ending violence against women color fightin...

In the movement to improve the health of patients with multiple chronic conditions and vulnerabilities, while reducing the need for hospitalizations, care management programs have garnered wide attention and support. The qualitative data presented in this paper sheds new light on key components of successful chronic care management programs. By going beyond a task- and temporal-based framework,...

BACKGROUND There is a lack of knowledge about how cultural ideas affect First Nations peoples' perception of rehabilitation needs and the ability to access services. PURPOSE The study explored the perceptions of treating and healing brain injury from First Nations elders and traditional healers in the communities served by Wassay-Gezhig-Na-Nahn-Dah-We-lgamig (Kenora Area Health Access Centre)...

a chronic wound is a wound that does not heal in an orderly set of stages and in a predictable amount of time or wounds that do not heal within three months are often considered chronic. chronic wounds often remain in the inflammatory stage for too long and may never heal or may take years. chronic wound patients often report pain as dominant in their lives. persistent pain is the main problem ...

Physical activity is an essential part of general health and diabetes management. However, recommending weight-bearing physical for people with plantar diabetic foot ulcers controversial, even when gold standard offloading devices are used, as it commonly thought to delay healing. We aimed narratively review relevant studies investigating the relationship between ulcer healing activity, pressur...