Pain is a common and devastating symptom of cancer that can be effectively controlled with currently available pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies. Unfortunately, there continue to be reports that half of patients with cancer have inadequate relief of their pain with devastating effects on their quality of life and functional status. Systematic efforts to understand and eliminate ...

The dynamics of systems composed of a classical sector plus a quantum sector is studied. We show that, even in the simplest cases, ~i! the existence of a consistent canonical description for such mixed systems is incompatible with very basic requirements related to the time evolution of the two sectors when they are decoupled, ~ii! the classical sector cannot inherit quantum fluctuations from t...

In much of the world, the persistence of long-distance migrations by mammals is threatened by development. Even where human population density is relatively low, there are roads, fencing, and energy development that present barriers to animal movement. If we are to conserve species that rely on long-distance migration, then it is critical that we identify existing migration impediments. To deli...

This paper proposes that the lack of a theoretical framework able to address policy issues on the firm as well as the industry level in an integrated manner contributes to a failure of developing effective e-commerce policies. Specifically, theoretical approaches fall into the two broad categories of market and organization theory with a gaping chasm in between. We elaborate on our proposition ...

Research on nonmonotonic and default reasoning has identi ed several important criteria for preferring alternative default inferences. The theories of reasoning based on each of these criteria may uniformly be viewed as theories of rational inference, in which the reasoner selects maximally preferred states of belief. Though researchers have noted some cases of apparent con ict between the pref...

We propose a method, whose purpose is to combine set of GPS traces collected by bicyclists with notifications problematic situations determine an optimal action plan for solving safety related problems in traffic network. In particular, we use optimization which problem locations resolve under given budget constraint order maximize the number impediment free trips. The method aims suggest prior...

A survey of major issues with Enterprise Systems was administered within the State Government of Queensland, Australia and a subset of these issues mapped against Szulanski’s model of inter-firm best practice transfer stickiness (Szulanski, G. 1996. Exploring internal stickiness: Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm. Strategic Management Journal, 17(Special Issue), 27-43...