Background: Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) is a novel, patient-centered approach to population management. This concept creates a needs-matched, time appropriate assignment of one or more members of a multi-professional clinical team to care for patients on a scheduled or unscheduled basis. The selection of the site of care for scheduled interventions is driven by patient choice and, most o...

The accumulations and partitions of mineral elements and dry matter in upland cotton plants were followed: A, at five-day intervals for thirty days starting with the seed with the plants growing in Hoagland's solution in a warm-to-hot summer greenhouse, and B, at 15-day intervals from thirty days after planting to maturity in field plantings. The latter data are not original but are recalculate...

O ver the last 6 years, the tremendous support from our authors and readers has made iJACC a valuable knowledge source for advances and applications in cardiovascular imaging. Its impact factor is among the highest for imaging journals and is growing consistently, placing it in the top bracket of all cardiovascular journals, which attests to the quality of papers published in iJACC. The improve...

466 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 47, NUMBER 4 The applied mathematics community suffered a great loss with the death of one of its leaders, Julian D. Cole, on April 17, 1999, at the age of 74. Julian was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 2, 1925. He received his B.S. in engineering from Cornell and his Ph.D. from Caltech, where he worked with Hans Liepmann. During his career he was a faculty me...

Occupational, safety and health administration is a major important function in human resource management. Malaysia encounters serious problems regarding the safety and health of workers arising from negligence in the workplace, which at times results in accidents and death. Latest statistics from PERKESO shows that more than 1526 cases have been reported across the country from January 2014 – ...

Aggregation functions are generally defined and used to combine several numerical values into a single one, so that the final result of the aggregation takes into account all the individual values in a given manner. Such functions are widely used in many well-known disciplines such as statistics, economics, finance, and computer science. For general background, see Grabisch et al. [52]. For ins...

The emerging Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a global impact on all important aspects of our society. As it is known, SARS-Cov-2 can withstand up to 72 h in adverse environmental conditions, which aid its rapid spread. Woefully, an efficacious and approbated vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 virus remains unavailable, makes problem more frightening presently complicated bestowing fo...

OBJECTIVE Multimorbidity is a common problem in the elderly that is significantly associated with higher mortality, increased disability and functional decline. Information about interactions of chronic diseases can help to facilitate diagnosis, amend prevention and enhance the patients' quality of life. The aim of this study was to increase the knowledge of specific processes of multimorbidity...