The impact of pill organizers on pill taking was determined in the Trial of Antioxidant Vitamins C and E (TRACE) Study, a factorial trial of vitamin C and vitamin E supplementation in 184 individuals. Participants were recruited in 1996–1997 and randomized to one of two groups (pill organizer or no organizer) and to one of four supplement groups for 2 months. The pill count (observed/expected X...

Social infrastructures increasingly depend on real‐time monitoring and control of physical environments by information technology (IT). The embedded systems used for these purposes must deliver correct services for at least the critical functions. However, interferences due to crime, terrorism, or natural disasters threaten IT support and public safety therewith. Since not all threats can be fo...

Welcome to REFS 2008, the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Requirements Engineering For Services. On behalf of the programme committee, we welcome you to Turku, Finland. The REFS 2008 workshop serve as a highly interactive forum for in-depth discussion of all issues related to requirements engineering for services following the REFS 2007 workshop in Beijing, China. Service orientation is rapi...

It is generally accepted that a discourse connective expresses a semantic and/or pragmatic relation between its matrix sentence or clause and something in the previous discourse. Usually the sense of this relation is expressed as a label, often within a hierarchy of sense labels. But the meaning of these labels may vary from system to system, and the same connective may be assigned different la...

BACKGROUND Pillbox organizers are inexpensive and easily used; however, their effect on adherence to antiretroviral medications is unknown. METHODS Data were obtained from an observational cohort of 245 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected subjects who were observed from 1996 through 2000 in San Francisco, California. Adherence was the primary outcome and was measured using unannounced...

A number of processes operating during the first cell cleavages enable the left-right (LR) axis to be consistently oriented during Xenopus laevis development. Prior work showed that secondary organizers induced in frog embryos after cleavage stages (i.e. conjoined twins arising from ectopic induced primary axes) correctly pattern their own LR axis only when a primary (early) organizer is also p...

BACKGROUND Short-term medical missions (STMMs) are quite common and largely understood to be a response to health needs in low-income countries. Yet most information about STMM practices is anecdotal. Even less is known about the preferences of in-country host communities regarding STMMs. OBJECTIVE We aimed to gather enough quantitative and qualitative information from both STMM organizers an...