Super consortia plans

Reforming the Match Process-Early Decision Plans and the Case for a Consortia Match.

Each year, onmatch day, about 300 prospective otolaryngological residents areveryhappy, but at the same time, many equally qualified applicants (about 70) are sad.1 Unlikemost other disciplines, the otolaryngologicalapplicantpool isalreadyhighlyself-selectedandcompetitive across the board (approximately 60% Alpha OmegaAlphamembers),2withmostof thematchedand unmatchedapplicantsbeing indistinguis...

Microbial consortia at steady supply

Metagenomics has revealed hundreds of species in almost all microbiota. In a few well-studied cases, microbial communities have been observed to coordinate their metabolic fluxes. In principle, microbes can divide tasks to reap the benefits of specialization, as in human economies. However, the benefits and stability of an economy of microbial specialists are far from obvious. Here, we physical...

Extracting Plans From Plans

Propositional plans of all forms often display a certain level of concurrency which can be exploited by scheduling the plan. This reveals the earliest times at which each action can be applied whilst still achieving the goal and shortening the plan duration. However, the output of this scheduling process is simply a set of timestamped actions, losing implicit information present in the original...

Telemedicine in the Malaysian Multimedia Super Corridor: Towards Personalised Lifetime Health Plans

The Malaysian Telemedicine initiative advocates a paradigm shift in healthcare delivery patterns by way of implementing a person-centred and wellness-focused healthcare system. This paper introduces the Malaysian Telemedicine vision, its functionality and associated operational conditions. In particular, we focus on the conceptualisation of one key Telemedicine component i.e. the Lifetime Healt...

Developing AIDS community service consortia.