OBJECTIVE To identify contextual factors at different organisational levels to guide the implementation of an assistive living technology intervention in Norwegian primary home care. DESIGN A single embedded case study design was carried out in an urban municipality in Western Norway to get an overview of key contextual factors from the municipality's perspective. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYS...

Chronic conditions are increasingly the primary concern of healthcare systems throughout the world. In response to this challenge, the World Health Organization has joined with the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation to adapt the Chronic Care Model (CCM) from a global perspective. The resultant effort is the Innovative Care for Chronic Conditions (ICCC) framework which expands community...

Although the Romanian balneotherapy tourism potential is exceptional, its effects do not match the level of the de facto natural resources, hence Romania’s unjustified distance from the main international, European competitors, with a balneotherapy tourism tradition. The all-levels causes (macro, meso and micro) derive from both directions (on the one hand, from the consumers, whose perception ...

Through a survey of evaluation data and reports collected from studies of successful ICT use in schools across 50 countries, the contextual factors regarding how schools can effectively integrate ICT is examined. A model of a strategic evaluation design and key findings is discussed, and, the systemic factors associated with understanding classroom level change are presented. The paper will con...

This Commentary describes recent research progress and professional developments in the study of scientific teamwork, an area of inquiry termed the "science of team science" (SciTS, pronounced "sahyts"). It proposes a systems perspective that incorporates a mixed-methods approach to SciTS that is commensurate with the conceptual, methodological, and translational complexities addressed within t...

Purpose The study aims to investigate the impact of technological innovation, such as blockchain, in music field from a value co-creation perspective, highlighting how it is determining radical change business model and creation process. Design/methodology/approach To shed light on blockchain adoption reconfiguring industry, authors adopted qualitative-based approach based case study, allowing ...

Abstract A new model for the multi-scale simulation of solute transport in concrete is presented. The employs plurigaussian simulations to generate stochastic representations micro- and meso-structures. These are idealised as two-phase medium comprising mortar matrix pores micro-structure, large aggregate particles meso-structure. generated meso-structures employed a finite element analysis ste...

The micro-macro paradox has been revived. Despite broadly positive evaluations at the micro and meso-levels, recent literature has turned decidedly pessimistic with respect to the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth. Policy implications, such as the complete cessation of aid to Africa, are being drawn on the basis of fragile evidence. This paper first assesses the aid-growth litera...

Hierarchical nanoporous carbon (NPC) with great surface area and developed pore size distribution has been intently concerned. Herein, we report a facile method coupling template nanocasting and self-activation to fabricate nanoporous carbon with continuous micro, meso and macro pores, in which CaCO3 acted as template and activation reagent while the flour was the carbon precursor. Effects of m...

Finite stochastic Markov models play a major role in modeling biological systems. Such models are a coarse-grained description of the underlying microscopic dynamics and can be considered mesoscopic. The level of coarse-graining is to a certain extent arbitrary since it depends on the resolution of accommodating measurements. Here we present a systematic way to simplify such stochastic descript...