this commentary on the editorial ‘the politics and analytics of health policy’ by professor calum paton focuses on two issues. first, it points to the unclear links between ideas, ideology, values, and discourse and policy, and warns that discourse is often a poor guide to enacted policy. second, it suggests that realism, particularly ‘programme theory’ are useful tools for health policy analys...

Background and Objective: The ability of breaking bad news to patients, especially to patients diagnosed with cancer is one of the challengeable issues in the field of medicine. On this basis, this study was designed to assess physicianschr('39') performance as well as importance of their training on how to deliver bad news to patients diagnosed with cancer. Materials and Methods: This was a p...

This commentary on the Editorial ‘The politics and analytics of health policy’ by Professor Calum Paton focuses on two issues. First, it points to the unclear links between ideas, ideology, values, and discourse and policy, and warns that discourse is often a poor guide to enacted policy. Second, it suggests that realism, particularly ‘programme theory’ are useful tools for health policy analys...

Here we present a pilot study into whether elliptical galaxy counts alone, can place a useful constraint on the Ω M − Ω Λ-plane. The elliptical galaxy counts are drawn from three surveys: The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue (16 > B KP N O > 20), the B-band Parallel Survey (20 > B AB > 24) and the Hubble Deep Fields (23 > B AB > 28). The elliptical luminosity function used in the modeling was derive...

Code bad smells represent symptoms of poor implementation choices. Previous studies found that these smells make source code more difficult to maintain, possibly also increasing its fault-proneness. There are plethora of approaches that identify bad smells based on code analysis techniques. We propose, in this paper, to consider code-smells correction as a distributed problem. Different techniq...