BACKGROUND Providing doctors with new research findings or clinical guidelines is rarely sufficient to promote changes in clinical practice. An implementation strategy is required to provide clinicians with the skills and encouragement needed to alter established routines. AIM To evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different training and support strategies in promoting implem...

IVG (Inter Vehicle Geocast) is a GPS-based InterVehicle Communication mechanism used for alarm message dissemination among vehicles in a highway in risk situations. In this paper, we propose an improvement to IVG towards supporting its interoperability in environments where “GPS-U” GPS-unequipped vehicles are present. They are vehicles that are not equipped with GPS devices or they have some pr...

the humoral immunization potential of panax ginseng polysaccharide (gps) against h9n2 avian influenza virus (h9n2 aiv) in chickens was investigated. the effects of gps treatment before and during h9n2 aiv infection were determined in chicken embryo fibroblast (cef) by mtt (3(4, 5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2, 3-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide) assays and quantitative rt-pcr analysis of mhc and cytokine...

OBJECTIVES (1) To explain general practitioners' (GPs') approaches to prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing and overdiagnosis; (2) to explain how GPs reason about their PSA testing routines and (3) to explain how these routines influence GPs' personal experience as clinicians. SETTING Primary care practices in Australia including men's health clinics and rural practices with variable access...

IVG is a GPS-based Inter-Vehicle Communication protocol used for alarm message dissemination among vehicles in a highway in risk situations. It is based on the principle of wireless ad hoc networks. In this paper, we propose an improvement to IVG towards supporting its interoperability in environments where vehicles “GPS-U” without GPS devices are present. It is also the case, because of obstac...

BACKGROUND General practitioners (GPs) in most high-income countries have a history of being independent private providers with much autonomy. While GPs remain private providers, their autonomous position appears to be challenged by increased policy regulations. This paper examines the extent to which GPs' preferences for private practice vs. salaried contracts changed in a period where a new h...

Location awareness and navigation are becoming one of the most important features in mobile phones and smartphones. Personal navigation and location based services are enlarging the scope of mobile applications. GPS is the most efficient positioning technology. Thanks to the reduction in the size of the GPS receivers and the integration of GPS with mobile phones, GPS is one of the most importan...