The integration of solutions to small problems is nec essary to solve larger ones However this integration does not need the consensus of the entire robotics community Individual research groups can integrate the necessary pieces to build solutions for larger prob lems Community wide standardization may lead to research stagnation To address the issues of integra tion ve of the many research e ...

Humanitarian migrants are moving to rural areas in Australia increasing numbers, where it is often local communities who take responsibility for their settlement–integration. Current models acknowledge that settlement–integration a two-way process between humanitarian and the community but remain overly focused on actions of while neglecting conditions communities. This article discusses case s...

The latest version of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Community Atmosphere Model, Version 3 (CAM3), has been released to allow for numerical integration at a variety of horizontal resolutions. One goal of the CAM3 design was to provide comparable large-scale simulation fidelity over a range of horizontal resolutions through modifications to adjustable coefficients in the parameterized...

Conventional electric production simulation models do not fully capture the unique issues surrounding wind power plants. PacifiCorp used an hourly system dispatch model to estimate wind resource integration costs in its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). This paper explores a number of modeling issues surrounding the representation of wind integration costs in dispatch models and the implications ...

The project to develop the Colorado Benefits Management System (CBMS) was begun with high hopes and the best of intentions. Its vision was to replace six aging legacy systems supporting various State administered welfare programs with a single system using current technologies. The expected benefits from CBMS were better service to clients and assurance that the State’s welfare programs were be...

Amazon watersheds are a complex ecosystem: the interaction between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and the water level fluctuations are the main forcing function that regulates the biodiversity, the evolutionary processes and the interaction between terrestrial and aquatic biota in the large internal deltas, the extensive floodplains regions and the network of channels, creeks, rivers, meand...

BACKGROUND Assertive community treatment (ACT) is characterized as a service delivery platform and represents an ideal setting in which mental health and physical health care can be integrated. OBJECTIVE Little is known about the extent to which ACT integrates physical health care with mental health care or the challenges ACT teams experience. To address this gap, focus groups were conducted ...

BACKGROUND There is no single definition of a community hospital in the UK, despite its long history. We sought to understand the nature and scope of service provision in community hospitals, within the UK and other high-income countries. METHODS We undertook a scoping review of literature on community hospitals published from 2005 to 2014. Data were extracted on features of the hospital mode...