ArchiMate is an approach to modeling the architecture of enterprises. In the corresponding architecture framework, three enterprise layers are distinguished: business, application and technology. Although ArchiMate is broadly applied in practice, its semantics appears to be undefined. DEMO is a methodology for enterprise engineering that is facing a rapidly growing acceptance. It is firmly root...

The purpose of this paper is to summarize data from available evaluations of community school initiatives. Part One provides a vision of community schools, discusses the nature and limitations of existing research, and offers a summary of findings from 49 community school initiatives. Three examples of evaluations are included in Part One in order to illustrate the scope of efforts underway. Pa...

SUMMARY We report two patients who developed a prolonged featureless headache, they think after a drink was 'spiked'. We speculate that each was exposed to scopolamine, resulting in enhanced trigeminal release of vasodilator neuropeptides, including Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP), and thus the headache.

Cancer survivors report a gap in work integration advice from healthcare professionals. This occurs despite physicians routinely providing comment upon survivors’ work abilities to insurers and employers. In order to understand the phenomena of survivors’ work integration from physicians’ perspectives, a vignette methodology was used. Vignettes were chosen as a means to explore physicians’ pers...

Stuart Staniford-Chen received his PhD in Physics and Masters in Computer Science from the University of California at Davis. There he joined the computer security group and worked on methods to trace intruders across the Internet, and led the team that developed the GrIDS hierarchical intrusion detection system. DARPA asked Dr Staniford-Chen to start and lead the Common Intrusion Detection Fra...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Infants are traditionally introduced to solid foods using spoon-feeding of specially prepared infant foods. RECENT FINDINGS However, over the last 10-15 years, an alternative approach termed 'baby-led weaning' has grown in popularity. This approach involves allowing infants to self-feed family foods, encouraging the infant to set the pace and intake of the meal. Proponents o...

In Australia, the National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH) is ultimately responsible for updating ICD-10-AM disease codes and Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) procedure codes, and the accompanying Australian Coding Standards (ACS). New editions of these publications are released every two years. This article outlines the updating procedure and lists the source...

Background Inhaled volatile anaesthetics remain the most widely used drugs for maintenance of general anaesthesia because of their ease of administration and predictable intraoperative and recovery characteristics. The result has been an increasing reliance on fluorinated anesthetics. The most recently introduced anesthetics, desflurane and sevoflurane, are ethers halogenated solely with fluori...

BACKGROUND: Effective palliation rather than cure is often the most appropriate goal in the management of patients with advanced gastric cancer.The literature to date is limited by the imprecise use of the term palliative and subsequent variable designation of patients into evaluable groups. STUDY DESIGN: Between 2000 and 2007, 303 patients underwent a operation for gastric adenocarcinoma. Pati...

QIAS Principle: 7.4 When child care professionals keep up to date with current practice, the outcomes for children, families and themselves are positive. These outcomes are further strengthened when there are opportunities for professional development that foster and improve caregiving, teaching and practical skills and knowledge. However, it can be confronting for child care professionals to a...