SETTING A government health system in southern Thailand where the directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS) strategy has been implemented. OBJECTIVE To compare the practice of actual directly observed treatment (DOT) and the observer sustainability for different types of observer. METHODS During 1999-2000, 411 patients with new smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis were followed up. ...

The paper presents the initial findings of an exploratory study on the use of a multimodal mobile phone application in a real life setting and in a more traditional lab setting. Some established methods for evaluation were used, however new evaluation tools were also used in an aim to discover more about the users experience when using the application. This is a difficult area in which to under...

Most process research relies heavily on the use of terms and concepts whose validity depends on a variety of assumptions to be met. As it is difficult to guarantee that they are met, such work continually runs the risk of being invalid. We propose a different and complementary approach to understanding process: Perform all description bottom-up and based on hard data alone. We call the approach...

During the climacteric period, several symptoms exist that motivate women to seek medical advice; one of the most common is the hot flush, which presents in 75%-85% of these during a variable time span. For the treatment of hot flush, several non-hormonal treatments exist; among them, veralipride has shown to be a useful treatment of vasomotor symptoms during the climacteric period. In recent t...

We argue that current discussions of criteria for actual causation are ill-posed in several respects. (1) The methodology of current discussions is by induction from intuitions about an infinitesimal fraction of the possible examples and counterexamples; (2) novel problem cases occur when more variables are considered; (3) as deployed in discussions of actual causation, “neuron diagrams” and ca...

Our purpose here is to focus attention on a development in computer science that has remarkable implications for the philosophy of mathematics. Bellantoni and Cook [BC] gave a purely syntactical characterization of polynomial-time computation. They indicate that their work was strongly influenced by previous work of Leivant, who subsequently [L] gave a more elegant form to the characterization,...

The necessity of supporting more and more social interaction (and not only the mere information sharing) in online environments is the disruptive force upon which phenomena ascribed to the Web2.0 paradigm continuously bud. People interacting in online sociotechnical environments mould technology on their needs, seamlessly integrating it into their everyday life. MUVEs (Multi User Virtual Enviro...

Four theories proposing determinate relations of actual causation for Boolean networks are described and applied to 16 cases. All four theories are founded on the idea that actual causation is based on results that appropriate experimental interventions would produce. They differ in their accounts of the relevant kinds of experimental interventions. The more complex theories are motivated by tr...