Worldwide, acupuncture is integral to everyday medical practice. In recent decades its practice has gained popularity in the United States. With increasing evidence of its clinical efficacy, acupuncture is now a widely practiced treatment modality in complementary and integrative medicine. According to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey, an estimated 3.1 million US adults and 150,000 chi...

Unstated and unacknowledged bias has a profound impact on the nature and implementation of integrative education models. Integrative education is the process of training conventional biomedical and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in each tradition such that patient care may be effectively coordinated. A bilateral education model ensures that students in each tradition are cross-taugh...

This paper proposes a new integrative view of manufacturing cell formation and both inter-cell and intra-cell layout problems. Cells formation and their popular bi-directional linear layout are determined simultaneously through a Dynamic Programming algorithm (with the objective of minimizing the inter-cell flow cost under a cell size constraint). This Dynamic Programming algorithm is implement...

Decisions about flood protection and river rehabilitation require prediction of the consequences of each possible management alternative. To provide such predictions, an integrative model is required that represents the cause-effect relations between revitalisation measures and morphologic, hydraulic and ecological consequences. This paper describes the hydraulics submodel of such an integrativ...

device. Case Presentations Case 1 Daria is a 15-year-old girl who has a 2-year history of migraine headaches. Her headaches occur on most days, particularly if she has had insufficient sleep, excessive stress, or exposure to tobacco smoke. She has been evaluated by a neurologist, dentist, and ophthalmologist. All of her physical examinations, computed tomography scan of the head, magnetic reson...

BACKGROUND: The Dunn Infant Toddler Sensory Profile and DeGangi's Test of Functions in Infants are two standardised tests that widely used by South African therapists to assess sensory integrative function infants. There is, however, no research available on the validation these for a population. This determined whether normative data established United States America were valid use with infant...