Historically, complex extremity injuries, otherwise known as mangled extremities, have been difficult management problems. This is especially true in multiply-injured patients where many priorities exist and where amputation is considered a failure of limb salvage. Over the past decade, advances in the total management of complex extremity injuries, from the placement of life-saving and limb-sa...

of the Dissertation Spectral Clustering for Complex Settings Many real-world datasets can be modeled as graphs, where each node corresponds to a data instance and an edge represents the relation/similarity between two nodes. To partition the nodes into different clusters, spectral clustering is used to find the normalized minimum cut of the graph (in the relaxed sense). As one of the most popul...

OBJECTIVE Despite recognition that dying children and their families have unique palliative care needs, there has been little empirical inquiry of parent perspectives to improve the quality of end-of-life care and communication. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the priorities and recommendations for end-of-life care and communication from the parents' perspective. METHOD...

Two areas of controversy are examined in this article, arising from contemporary debate on identity in later life. The first centers on whether adults are essentially similar regardless of age or whether different stages of life confer different life priorities. The second addresses the management of self in later life, with special attention being given to alternative interpretations of the re...

Field data collection and information management are essential to numerous government field operations. Geospatial data and emerging computing technologies offer the potential to vastly expand the type and quality of support available to the field worker during field campaigns. This requires the development of appropriate field tools and computing systems to responsively and reliably support se...

XP has one weakness when it comes to complex application domains or difficult situations at the customer’s organization: the customer role does not reflect the different interests, skills and forces with which we are confronted in development projects. We propose splitting the customer role into a user and a client role. The user role is concerned with domain knowledge; the client role defines ...