BACKGROUND More than half of the patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) patients are diagnosed with one or more comorbid disorders. They can participate in several single-disease oriented disease management programs, which may lead to fragmented care because these programs are not well prepared for coordinating care between programs. Comorbid patients are therefore at risk for suboptimal treatmen...

Dimensionality refers to both the various perspectives of a program and to the components within that perspective. It is, thus, appropriate to think of dimensions of dimensionality. For example, one dimension or perspective of a program is the projects which perform the program. Within the project dimension, the individual projects are the components of that dimensionality. The number of projec...

1 Abstract Digital's multiyear Alpha AXP program has involved more than two thousand engineers across many disciplines. Innovative management styles and techniques were required to deliver this high-quality program on an aggressive schedule. The Alpha AXP Program Office used a four-point methodology for management: (1) establish an appropriately large shared vision; (2) delegate completely and ...

As the amount of on-chip cache increases as a result of Moore’s law, cache utilization is increasingly important as the number of processor cores multiply and the contention for memory bandwidth becomes more severe. Optimal cache management requires knowing the future access sequence and being able to communicate this information to hardware. The paper addresses the communication problem with t...

CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS The Agricultural Risk Management SimProbabilistic budgeting methods are used in ulator (ARMS) is a microcomputer program ARMS to evaluate the impact of alternative designed to help users evaluate strategies for management strategies on annual net cash managing yield and price risk in crop farming flow probability distributions. Probabilistic operations. Risk management st...

Workplace bullying is a serious problem faced by nurses nationally. This study was conducted to determine the frequency of workplace bullying and evaluate the effectiveness of a training program on cognitive rehearsal of responses to common bullying behaviors. This program to increase staff nurses' knowledge of management of workplace bullying consisted of three components: pilot survey testing...