countries around the world are experiencing an ever-increasing need to make choices in investments in health and healthcare. this makes it incumbent upon them to have formal processes in place to optimize the legitimacy of eventual decisions. there is now growing experience among countries of the implementation of stakeholder participation, and a developing convergence of methods to support dec...

a b s t r a c t there are three types of nerve fibers that are involved in the transmission of pain stimuli: c fibers (slower fibers) for thermal, mechanical and chemical stimuli, a-delta fibers for thermal or mechanical stimuli and a-beta fibers for touch stimuli. clinically, this is crucial in making an accurate assessment of the pain level experienced by a suffering patient, in indicating th...

The derivation of some class generalized mechanical models relies on a specific stress expansion without any priori assumption the corresponding kinematics. In such situations, their extension to dynamic setting is not easy, especially when deriving inertias since kinematics unknown. This paper shows how consistent can be obtained through use complementary energy principle in elastodynamics. me...

UNLABELLED Although the distribution of various crystalloid and colloid solutions at equilibrium has been well established, the acute peak expansion of intravascular volume that can be achieved with the rapid administration of crystalloid or colloid is unknown. We studied eight healthy male subjects in a two-part crossover trial designed to assess the maximal increase in intravascular volume ac...

in this paper a modification of he's variational iteration method (vim) has been employed to solve dung and riccati equations. sometimes, it is not easy or even impossible, to obtain the first few iterations of vim, therefore, we suggest to approximate the integrand by using suitable expansions such as taylor or chebyshev expansions.

three subheadings including treatment, prevention and control and diagnosis methods got the most priorities, respectively. although about half of the priorities are related to two subheadings including treatment and diagnosis methods, research priorities of prevention and control methods (22% of all priorities) indicate the importance of prevention for clinicians who gave scores to the titles. ...