Forms are the most common way to interface users and Web-based applications. Traditional forms cannot provide the functionality needed to fulfil the requirements of complex applications. As such, there is a need for a more advanced format of forms to support Web-based application. We argued that XForms easily fit into this criterion of forms. In addition, we observed that there is a need for a ...

AnaesthesiaVolume 76, Issue 10 p. 1304-1307 Editorial If you cannot measure it, improve it E. Albrecht, Albrecht Program Director [email protected] @DrEAlbrecht Department of Anaesthesia, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, SwitzerlandSearch for more papers by this authorC.M. Brummett, C.M. Brummett Professor @drchadb Co-Director the Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (Michigan ...

In the light of technology-driven social change that creates new challenges for universities, this paper considers the potential of mobile learning as a subset of e-learning to effect a paradigm shift in higher education. Universities face exponential growth in demand for higher education, significant decreases in government funding for education, a changing in understanding of the nature of kn...

The free-energy principle has recently been proposed as a unified Bayesian account of perception, learning and action. Despite the inextricable link between emotion and cognition, emotion has not yet been formulated under this framework. A core concept that permeates many perspectives on emotion is valence, which broadly refers to the positive and negative character of emotion or some of its as...

In this article we draw on the concept of a social licence to explain public concern at the introduction of care.data, a recent English initiative designed to extract data from primary care medical records for commissioning and other purposes, including research. The concept of a social licence describes how the expectations of society regarding some activities may go beyond compliance with the...

BACKGROUND Research has highlighted variations in morbidity, mortality and health needs by ethnic group, and suggests that some ethnic groups may receive a poorer service. AIM To explore the impact of ethnic group on patients' experiences and expectations of their general practice consultation. DESIGN OF STUDY Cross-sectional survey. SETTING One general practice in a multicultural area of...

This study investigates the expectations hypothesis of term structure of interest rates in Taiwan’s money market by examining six short-term instruments during the period for which monthly data are available (from Jan. 1994 to Dec. 2005). The six instruments studied are 30-, 60-, 90-, 120-, 180-, and 365-day commercial papers, respectively. This study argues that the unsound government bond mar...

Was stone tool making a factor in the evolution of human hand morphology? Is it possible to find evidence in fossil hominin hands for this capability? These questions are being addressed with increasingly sophisticated studies that are testing two hypotheses; (i) that humans have unique patterns of grip and hand movement capabilities compatible with effective stone tool making and use of the to...