abstract background: literature shows that interprofessional collaboration (ipc) is a challenging phenomenon both in theory and practice, and it is affected by socio-cultural contexts in which the health professionals (hps) play their roles. considering some evidences on the similarities and differences between eastern and western socio-cultural contexts, this study aims to explore and describe...

The design of collaborative representations faces a challenge in integrating theoretical communication models with the context-sensitive and creative practices of human interaction. This paper presents results from a study that identified multiple, invariant communicative practices in how dyads appropriated flexible, paper-based media in discussions of wicked problems. These invariants, identif...

The RBC collaboration has performed simulations with domain wall fermions (DWF) and the DBW2 gauge action and presented results for weak matrix elements. This report focuses on the chiral condensate 〈ψ̄ψ〉 and exploits nonperturbative renormalization calculations to get physical values for both quenched and dynamical fermions. The simulation details are given the Table 1. Two lattice volumes are ...

BACKGROUND Public health provision in England is undergoing dramatic changes. Currently established partnerships are thus likely to be significantly disrupted by the radical reforms outlined in the Public Health White Paper. We therefore explored the process of partnership working in public health, in order to better understand the potential opportunities and threats associated with the propose...

Experiences in creating dialogue possibilities to stimulate interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration in hospital discharge and prevention are presented. Time is often a major constraint that persuades decision-makers to avoid using qualitative methodologies in research and development. Quick results are demanded of today's health-care system, not allowing ideas to be implemented or vis...

I show how to construct a stochastic long-lived overlapping generations model, based on a non-stochastic model developed by Olivier Blanchard [2] and Philippe Weil [14], that nests the RBC model as a special case. My innovation over previous work is to add an aggregate stochastic shock. I provide three different calibrations of the model. One mimics the RBC model and the other two are heterogen...

Linear and Hodrick-Prescott detrending methods do not provide a good approximation of the business cycle when output contains a unit root. I use the multivariate Beveridge-Nelson decomposition to document the main patterns of US postwar business cycle when output and some other variables are assumed to be integrated I(1) processes. I show that the business cycle identi...ed in this way displays...

Governments are making significant investments in information technology to transform the way in which they serve their stakeholders e.g., businesses and citizens. Going beyond early efforts of automating existing services, government agencies are seeking for opportunities to use IT to enhance citizen involvement and participation. With the advent of Web 2.0, Gov 2.0 has gained popularity with ...