Introduction: Continuous performance assessment and improvement are critical to the survival of all organizations. An assessment tool the health care industry has started to use is the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). The authors present their BSC, a multidimensional framework linking their department’s values and goals with day-to-day activities. The BSC measures performance along multiple dimensions...

Ankur Gulati, MD*; Tevfik F. Ismail, MD*†; Andrew Jabbour, MD, PhD*; Francisco Alpendurada, MD*; Kaushik Guha, MD*†; Nizar A. Ismail, BSc*; Sadaf Raza, MD*; Jahanzaib Khwaja, BSc*; Tristan D.H. Brown, BSc*; Kishen Morarji, MD*; Emmanouil Liodakis, MD*; Michael Roughton, MSc*; Ricardo Wage, DCR*; Tapesh C. Pakrashi, MD*; Rakesh Sharma, MD, PhD*†; John-Paul Carpenter, MD*†, Stuart A. Cook, MD*†; ...

Semantic tagging of images has a broad spectrum of applications, of both scientific and commercial interest. Experience has indicated that designing the interaction with human taggers in the form of a web game can be a very effective way to collect valuable tagged data. So far, implementations of such games have depended on explicit, deliberate input by the users. A novel alternative is present...

Nicola Whiffin, PhD, Roddy Walsh, MSc, Risha Govind, MSc, Matthew Edwards, MSc, Mian Ahmad, PhD, Xiaolei Zhang, MSc, Upasana Tayal, BMBCh, MRCP, Rachel Buchan, MSc, William Midwinter, BSc, Alicja E Wilk, BSc, Hanna Najgebauer, PhD, Catherine Francis, MA, MRCP, Sam Wilkinson, BSc, Thomas Monk, MSc, Laura Brett, MPhil, Declan P O’Regan, PhD, FRCR, Sanjay K Prasad, MD, FRCP, Deborah J Morris-Rosen...

M. Odumenya, BSc, MBBS, MRCS, Orthopaedic Registrar M. L. Costa, PhD, FRCS(Trauma and Orth), Associate Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedics Surgery N. Parsons, BSc, MSc, PhD, Medical Statistician J. Achten, MSc, PhD, Research Manager Clinical Sciences Research Institute M. Dhillon, FRCR, Consultant Radiologist S. J. Krikler, BSc, PhD, FRCS(Ortho), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon University Hospi...

N Ferreira BSc, MBChB, HDip Orth(SA), FC Orth(SA), MMed(Orth) Tumour, Sepsis and Reconstruction Unit, Department of Orthopaedics, Grey’s Hospital, University of KwaZulu-Natal LC Marais MBChB, FCS Orth(SA), MMed(Ortho) Tumour, Sepsis and Reconstruction Unit, Department of Orthopaedics, Grey’s Hospital, University of KwaZulu-Natal C Aldous BSc, BSc(Hons), MSc, PhD Medical Research Scientist, Scho...

Satellite cells are the resident stem cell population of adult skeletal muscle tissue that is responsible for growth and regeneration. The cells typically congregate near the tips of the muscle fi bers and in close proximity to the neural muscular junction (NMJ). Ephrin-A5 is a chemotactic molecule that participates in the correct positioning and formation of the NMJ. The objective of the exper...

213. Impact of Antimicrobial Stewardship Strategies on Antimicrobial Use: A Systematic Review Yvonne Peijun Zhou, BSc(Pharm)(Hons); Nathalie Grace Sy Chua, BSc (Pharm); Winnie Lee, BPharm(Hons), MSc (Epi); Maciej Piotr Chlebicki, MBBS, ABIM; Yixin Liew, BSc (Pharm), MSc (ID); Andrea Kwa, PharmD; Pharmacy, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore; Department of Infectious Diseases, Singa...

analysis in detecting M. tuberculosis at Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai hospital Kanokwan Pinyopornpanish, MD; Chansom Pantip, BSc, MS; Rassamee Keawvichit, BSc, MPA; Phadungkiat Khamnoi, BSc; Thira Sirisanthana, MD; Romanee Chaiwarith, MD, MHS; Intetnal Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Muang, Chiang Mai, Thailand; Research Institute for Health Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Muang, Chiang Mai, Tha...

A biplane quadrotor is a hybrid type of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that has advantages both fixed-wing and rotary-wing UAVs. In this study, we design controllers using (i) Backstepping Control (BSC), (ii) Integral Terminal Sliding Mode (ITSMC), (iii) Hybrid control (ITSMC + BSC), where the ITSMC controls attitude BSC altitude subsystems as per mathematical model quadrotor. The performance th...