The outward urge

The urge to merge.

For many stand-alone hospitals, a merger, partnership, or affiliation may be the only option to access scale and remain viable in the nation's emerging new healthcare delivery system. These organizations can consider many options for affiliation, including traditional options such as affiliation with regional academic medical centers, a merger or takeover to become the corporate member of a lar...

Civilization and the Creative Urge

Dissecting the Urge to Create

C reative human beings are the torch-bearers of civilization. How does their creativity arise? What causes some minds/brains to achieve awe-inspiring artistic or scientifi c achievements? We cannot help but be fascinated by the fact that Shakespeare—a merchant's son with " small Latin and less Greek " —could emerge from the " nowhere " of rural Stratford to create the richest literary treasure ...

Taming the urge to click

We describe the development of a user interface for a mobile museum guide based on handheld devices. The system provides audio, video, graphics and text content to visitors of a world cultural heritage site, the “Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte”[2]. The focus of this paper is on the design process and how the user interface was adapted step by step in order to meet the needs of visitors and acc...

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