This paper begins a series studying D-modules on the Feigin-Frenkel semi-infinite flag variety from the perspective of the Beilinson-Drinfeld factorization (or chiral) theory. Here we calculate Whittaker-twisted cohomology groups of Zastava spaces, which are certain finite-dimensional subvarieties of the affine Grassmannian. We show that such cohomology groups realize the nilradical of a Borel ...

The aim of this article is to report on the creation and early innovations of an evidence-based nursing committee in a tertiary hospital. During a post-merger transitional period, the Evidencebased Nursing (EBN) Committee conducted a number of projects, which included selecting an evidence-based practice (EBP) model for nursing; developing a process for prioritising and disseminating research f...

The aim of this article is to report on the creation and early innovations of an evidence-based nursing committee in a tertiary hospital. During a post-merger transitional period, the Evidencebased Nursing (EBN) Committee conducted a number of projects, which included selecting an evidence-based practice (EBP) model for nursing; developing a process for prioritising and disseminating research f...

The Extended Behavior Network (EBN) is an architecture and action selection mechanism to design agents capable of selecting sets of concurrent actions in dynamic and continuous environments. It allows one to specify context-dependent motivations and build agents modularly, and has achieved good results in the Robocup and in the 3D action game Unreal Tournament. PHISH-Nets, another behavior netw...

The EBN users’ guide in the previous issue of Evidence-Based Nursing outlined the primary and secondary questions for evaluating studies of healthcare interventions. One of the primary questions for assessing the validity of a study’s findings is whether the assignment of patients to treatments was randomised and whether randomisation was concealed. One of the secondary questions is whether pat...

The aim of this article is to report on the creation and early innovations of an evidence-based nursing committee in a tertiary hospital. During a post-merger transitional period, the Evidencebased Nursing (EBN) Committee conducted a number of projects, which included selecting an evidence-based practice (EBP) model for nursing; developing a process for prioritising and disseminating research f...

We discuss end-user applications and enabling technologies for Distributed Geographical Information Systems (DGIS) and review concepts for a Distributed High Performance Computing (DHPC) project for the development of a high performance DGIS. Archiving, access and processing of scientific data are discussed in the context of geographic and environmental applications with special emphasis on the...

The EBN users’ guide in the previous issue of Evidence-Based Nursing outlined the primary and secondary questions for evaluating studies of healthcare interventions. One of the primary questions for assessing the validity of a study’s findings is whether the assignment of patients to treatments was randomised and whether randomisation was concealed. One of the secondary questions is whether pat...

We present a distributed geographic information system (DGIS) built on a distributed high performance computing environment using a number of software infrastructural building blocks and computational resources interconnected by an ATM-based broadband network. Archiving, access and processing of scientific data are discussed in the context of geographic and environmental applications with speci...

The systematic observation of food habits and health amongst the elderly, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally, in the Asia Pacific region is increasing as reflected in the recent collective report of a number of intake and health variables in Taiwanese communities. Most studies are of Chinese and Japanese-speaking populations, with some from elsewhere in Northeast Asia (notably Korea) and...