INTRODUCTION Arabic-speaking migrants have constituted a growing population in recent years. This entails major challenges to ensure good communication in the healthcare encounter in order to provide individual and holistic healthcare. One of the solutions to ensure good communication between patient and healthcare staff who do not share the same language is to use a professional interpreter. T...

We report the first demonstration of an intracavity side-pumped Ho:YAG slab laser, delivering 13W at 2.09μm and discuss the advantages of this scheme as an approach for power scaling.

In this talk, we will describe a dynamical mechanism called transverse ho-moclinic intersection. On one hand, the discovery of this mechanism proved to be very costly for a great mathematician. On the other hand, this mechanism provides the key idea to design very low energy paths that have been used to save millions of dollars for international spaceflight programs. We prove that, generically,...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is maturing from its early focus on epidemiology to embrace a wider range of disciplines and methodologies. At the heart of EBM is the patient, whose informed choices have long been recognised as paramount. However, good evidence-based care is more than choices. DISCUSSION We discuss six potential 'biases' in EBM that may inadvertently devalue the pati...

The HO(aq) ion participates in myriad aqueous phase chemical processes of biological and chemical interest. A molecularly valid description of its hydration state, currently poorly understood, is a natural prerequisite to modeling chemical transformations involving HO(aq). Here it is shown that the statistical mechanical quasichemical theory of solutions predicts that HO · [H2O]3 − is the domin...

Research settings include a full range of encounters with nature -extended wilderness excursions, hiking in open space, strolling through a city park, gardening, tending a small plot of urban grass or a vacant city lot with its attendant ecosystem, and even watching nature scenes on TV. While different psychological approaches (evolutionary, behavioral, cognitive, psychodynamic, systems, humani...

Speech acts shape the core of pragmatic competence and their mastery is a prerequisite for successful dis- course encounters in an L2. Cross-cultural comparisons, as claimed by Johnstone (2018), are very effec- tive for knowing and acquiring the speech acts. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to compare a limited number of communicative routines in English and Persian within the f...

Cultural Heritage institutions have developed numerous ways of supporting visitors who have simply wandered in through the front door. However, for their digital collections, the CH institutions mostly provide a simple search-box, which supports the expert user, but which does not support the casual user who has just stumbled across the collection. These casual users frequently have no goal or ...