Background: The nursing profession is a combination of theory and practical skill, and nurses are required to generate and develop knowledge through implementing research into clinical practice. Considerable number of barriers could hind implementing research findings into practice. Barriers to research utilisation are not identified in the Jordanian context. Aims and Objectives: To explore Jor...

The Scarring Effects of Unemployment, Low Pay and Skills Under-utilisation in Australia Compared There is a substantial literature on the scarring effects of unemployment on future employment prospects and a smaller one on the scarring effects of low pay, but the possibility that skills mismatch in the form of skills under-utilisation, may also have similar detrimental effects, has not previous...

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical expenditure is currently rising by 16% per annum in China, greater in recent years. Initiatives to moderate growth include drug pricing regulations, essential medicine lists and encouraging generic prescribing. These are principally concentrated in hospitals, which currently account for over 80% of total pharmaceutical expenditure. However, no monitoring of prescribing...

BACKGROUND Inequalities in the utilisation of dental services in Brazil are remarkable. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of contextual and individual factors with the utilisation of dental services by Brazilian adults using the Andersen's behavioural model. METHODS Individual-level data from 27,017 adults residents in the State capitals who were interviewed in the 2013 Br...

OBJECTIVE In the 30 days after hospital discharge, hospital utilisation is common and costly. This study evaluated the association between gender and hospital utilisation within 30 days of discharge. DESIGN Secondary data analysis using Poisson regression stratified by gender. PARTICIPANTS 737 English-speaking hospitalised adults from general medical service in urban, academic safety-net me...

The alterations in local cerebral glucose utilisation in eight discrete nuclei in the thalamus following the administration of apomorphine (0.5 mg kg-1) have been investigated with the autoradiographic 2-deoxyglucose technique in 11 conscious rats. In two thalamic nuclei (parafascicular and ventrolateral nuclei), glucose utilisation was significantly elevated following apomorphine; in two thala...

DNA vaccination is a relatively recent development in vaccine methodology. It is now possible to undertake a rational step-by-step approach to DNA vaccine design. Strategies may include the incorporation of immunostimulatory sequences in the backbone of the plasmid, co-expression of stimulatory molecules, utilisation of localisation/secretory signals, and utilisation of the appropriate delivery...

A survey of general practice in the London borough of Lambeth was analysed to discover how the distance from a patient's home to a medical facility affects the utilisation of that facility. It was shown that distance has a negative effect on utilisation for all population groups except men aged 15 to 64. The effect was especially marked for women, for the elderly, and for Social Classes III, IV...

This chapter deals with hierarchical model predictive control (MPC) of smart grid systems. The design consists of a high-level MPC controller, a second level of so-called aggregators, which reduces the computational and communicationrelated load on the high-level control, and a lower level of autonomous consumers. The control system is tasked with balancing electric power production and consump...