Building Competencies for Integrated Care: Defining the Landscape

Defining the Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Designs in architecture and urbanism with Emphasis on Usage in Iran

Demand of energy is more sensible now because of population growth and economic growth of countries. In order to increase of energy consumption around the world and environment pollution, attention to the renewable energy such as solar energy is inevitable. Building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) electric power systems not only produce electricity, they are also part of the building. For exam...

Defining Landscape Units Through Integrated Morphometric Characteristics

Landscape analysis and landscape planning need sophisticated spatio-temporal image analysis complemented with context-sensitive methodology. The latter means that raster processing has to evolve beyond per-cell analysis. We have integrated two approaches for the delineation of homogenous areas, or “mapping units”. First, a multiscale image analysis technique is used to extract objects from eart...

Respiratory critical care HERMES syllabus: defining competencies for respiratory doctors.

From a medical perspective, European countries are growing closer together. An increasing number of physicians are crossing borders and swapping workplaces. In order to facilitate this development, the European Union (EU) adopted a directive dictating the equality of diplomas and medical board certificates within the EU [1]. Despite a number of initiatives, such as the ‘‘Lifelong Learning Progr...

Building integrated care

The Building Blocks of Integrated Care

This special issue grows out of a collaborative project between IFIC and Edge Hill University (UK) that led to six webinars delivered by international experts on integrated care. 1 The papers are reflection pieces by those who delivered the webinars providing a unique summary of accumulated expertise in some of the most important themes in the integrated care field. This special issue also offe...