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Almost all public library funding in the United States iscontrolled by local, state, and/or federal budgets, policies,and laws. Influencing budgets, policies, and laws happensthrough lobbying and advocacy campaigns. When signifi-cant changes or cuts to library funding are proposed, howdo stakeholders respond and what is the potential out-come of advocacy efforts? As (fic...

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Real-time personal health monitoring is gaining new ground with advances in wireless communications. Wireless body area networks (WBANs) provide a means for low-powered sensors, affixed either on the human body or in vivo, to communicate with each other and with external telecommunication networks. The healthcare benefits of WBANs include continuous monitoring of patient vitals, measuring posta...

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j Abstract After legislative changes in 1978, Italian psychiatry underwent a thorough overhaul, with the gradual closure of all Mental Hospitals. A nation-wide network of Departments of Mental Health now deliver outpatient and inpatient care, but also run semi-residential and residential facilities (the latter with 2.9 beds per 10,000 inhabitants). Hospital care is delivered through small psych...