BACKGROUND The vacuum assisted closure (VAC) therapy has revolutionized the modern wound care. We developed a new concept of ‘VAC at home’ in order to decrease the hospital cost. METHODS The study was conducted in a private hospital from January 2009 to December 2010. Only those patients were included among whom the wounds were not complicated by concomitant injury and the patients were othe...

in this study, we have sought to provide a comprehensive conceptual model of the concept of success in the field of home business. In this regard, we have adopted a qualitative approach based on grounded theory (GT) as a comprehensive method for collecting data with 18 home-based business owners (in the field of kilim weaving, pottery and packaging). And key informants of such businesses underw...

This paper uses a series of nested logit models to investigate recent mover preferences for location choice and home type. A comparison of alternative model specifications illuminate the nature of purchase, recognizing location attributes as well as home size and cost. Sample data come from a survey of home buyers in Austin, Texas and parameter estimates support the notion that home type is an ...

Abstract In this paper, current technologies which can be used in the wireless home networking area are reviewed and compared. Then a solution of smart home system based on ZigBee technology is put forward and discussed. The hardware design of ZigBee wireless sensor network based on CC2430 chip and embedded home gateway based on S3C2440 is also given in detail. The software workflow of coordina...

Reducing nursing home hospitalizations has been identified as a possible area for cost savings, but little is known about the magnitude of spending associated with these hospitalizations. Using merged hospital and nursing home administrative files from New York State, we found that inflation-adjusted spending on nursing home hospitalizations increased 29 percent from 1999 through 2004. By 2004,...

4 The kernel estimation and the utilization distribution 14 4.1 The utilization distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4.2 The function kernelUD: estimating the utilization distribution . . 17 4.3 The Least Square Cross Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.4 Controlling the grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4.4.1 Passing a numeric value . ...

Given current demographic and health trends, and their economic implications, home healthcare technology has become a fertile area for research and development. Motivated by the need for a radical reform of healthcare provision, SPHERE is a large-scale Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration that aims to develop home sensor systems to monitor people’s health and wellbeing in the home. This pap...

An understanding of residential location choice is fundamental to behavioral models of land use, and, ultimately, travel demand. A survey of over 900 recent homebuyers in the Austin, Texas area offers valuable data on movers and their reasons for moving. This paper examines the role of access (to employment, freeways, shopping, bus services, and other opportunities) in residential home and loca...

BACKGROUND A qualitative study of maternal perceptions of home safety advice. The aim was to gain an understanding of maternal perceptions of and possible barriers to the implementation of home safety advice. METHODS Semi-structured interviews with 37 mothers with a child aged less than 5 years of age; 16 were mothers living in an area of socio-economic disadvantage (with a high rate of child...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of dental surface treatment with Erbium-Doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet(Er: YAG), Neodymium-Doped Yttrium Aluminium Garnet(Nd: YAG) and Carbon Dioxide Laser (CO2) lasers and sodium ascorbate to recently home bleached enamel by scanning electron microscope (SEM). METHODS Thirty extracted human third molars were selected for this in vi...