How are hospitals supposed to cater for patients who are a security risk and still pursue a progressive, 'open door' policy with the majority of their patients? Dr. Norman Imlah, medical director of All Saints Hospital, Birmingham, puts the case for closed special units. advances in the treatment and management of the mentally ill in Britain have brought problems for the legislators, but none m...

Intel’s Internet usage policy evolved from practically non-existant to explicitly defined – all in reaction to changing conditions and security threats. This paper covers the evolution of Intel Internet access policy, a continual struggle to close the barn doors before the horses get out. Throughout the paper, we outline key lessons we have learned during the policy-making process. It discusses...

IN THIS ISSUE In this issue of Physics & Society, we continue our series on the risks of nuclear weapons after the Cold War. In their article Illicit Trafficking of Weapons-Usable Nuclear Material: Facts and Uncertainties, Lyudmila Zaitseva and Friedrich Steinhausler have provided us with a very detailed look at what is known about the smuggling of fissile materials. They have also provided a r...

on the part of the professional staff to foster the mystique, even to the extent of keeping the administrative and professional staff apart, as far as possible. The office door was always kept closed. Shortly after I started, the psychiatric social worker left and so, through shortage of staff, the office door had to be opened. I had to adopt duties that I knew little about, with very few guide...

An apparatus and method for providing an elevator door performance result of an elevator door in an elevator door system which normally operates sequentially from state-to-state in a closed loop sequential chain of normal operating states is disclosed. A plurality of parameter signals provided by the elevator door system is monitored by the apparatus. The apparatus comprises: a door state seque...

The uplift of a governance paradigm opened the door for different non-formal ‎actors to join policy-making process. This proliferation actors posed‎ some new questions about relationship between them. One aspects ‎of this is power actors. paper seeks contribute ‎public policy literature in way explore if formulation stage decision-‎making process can be used as an arena assessing ‎aforementione...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of an Acute Stroke Triage Pathway in reducing door to needle times in acute stroke treatment with IV t-PA. BACKGROUND A previous study at our tertiary referral centre, examining IV t-PA door to needle times, was completed in 2000. The median door to needle time was beyond the recommended National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) ...

openshapedoor within door { booleanopen int size point hinge , lock line door open = true size = 200 hinge = \NW + {10, 0} lock = if open then hinge-{0, size} else hinge+{size, 0} door = [hinge,lock] } width = 800 length = 800 centre = {500, 500} .

he use of fictional characters and festivals to sell unhealthy commodities is well established. Both Santa Claus and the Easter bunny have been employed to influence people, especially children, towards unhealthy behaviour. 1,2 Each year, on 31 October, an increasing number of witches and wizards darken the doors of Australian households, demanding free junk food. The rising popularity of Hallo...

We present an example-based approach to rendering hand-colored animations which delivers visual richness comparable to real artwork while enabling control over the amount of perceived temporal noise. This is important both for artistic purposes and viewing comfort, but is tedious or even intractable to achieve manually. We analyse typical features of real hand-colored animations and propose an ...