A framework was developed to address long term strategic thrust areas. Specific objectives were called out as near term priorities. The objectives were folded into the framework to form a coherent planning view. On April 8-9, 2003, the LACSI Executive Committee and Principal Investigators met with senior LANL personnel to revise the framework, priorities, and strategies established at the plann...

Community-based provision of injectable contraception continues to advance and is gaining wider acceptance-a major step toward meeting unmet need. However, fully addressing family planning need will require access to a much wider range of methods, including long-acting reversible contraception and permanent methods.

This paper describes an approach to capturing organisational memory in which teams use a hypermedia tool to analyse and discuss complex problems. Graphical argument spaces are constructed as competing ideas are debated. Firstly this supports the processes of discussion and negotiation which are central to knowledge work, typically as problems are defined, project constraints shift, and teams re...

Purpose of the study: Recent studies have concluded that there is a lack of “patient-centered” care in nursing homes (NHs) and subsequently a need for NH culture change. As a result, there has been the introduction of a variety of new, promising initiatives with most of these incorporating the use of “empowered” employees. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of empowered work ...

BACKGROUND Adequate care for individuals living with chronic illnesses calls for a healthcare system redesign, moving from acute, disease-centered to patient-centered models. The aim of this study was to identify Belgian stakeholders' perceptions on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the healthcare system for people with chronic diseases in Belgium. METHODS Four focus gro...

What is currently on your librarian backburner? We’d be willing to make a few bets the content of those pots growing cold. Maybe we would find weeding project pause, draft an article gathering dust, or that meeting agenda you know can throw together only hours before actual meeting. LibGuides maintenance probably found most our backburners, too.When academic year begins and instruction requests...

Citation: Lee HK, Bae Y-S. 12th International Dendritic Cell Symposium, October 7–11, 2012; Daegu, Korea: New paradigm of dendritic cell science and application. OncoImmunology 2013; 2:e23245 The 12th International Dendritic Cell (DC) symposium (DC2012, www. DC2012.kr), organized by Ho-Youn Kim (President), Hyunah Lee (Secretary General), and Yong-Soo Bae (Scientific Program Organizer), was hel...

OBJECTIVE We measured the long-term retention of knowledge gained through selected American Academy of Neurology annual meeting courses and compared the effects of repeated quizzing (known as test-enhanced learning) and repeated studying on that retention. METHODS Participants were recruited from 4 annual meeting courses. All participants took a pretest. This randomized, controlled trial util...

This paper reviews the role of plant cell culture as a biotechnological tool in preserving botanical diversity higher plants while meeting growing demand commercial market for large volumes raw material. The prospects cell-based technology are discussed framework creating an economy sustainable development short and long term.