Drawing on a systematic review of the literature, this paper explores factors which have enabled and/or constrained transformative potential public service user participation within five most influential recent narratives reform. It argues that these failed either to offer holistic conceptualisation such in theory or achieve its enactment practice for four main reasons: is framed as polemic, wi...

CONTEXT Local health departments (LHDs) have historically not prioritized policy development, although it is one of the 3 core areas they address. One strategy that may influence policy in LHD jurisdictions is the formation of partnerships across sectors to work together on local public health policy. DESIGN We used a network approach to examine LHD local health policy partnerships across 15 ...

Academic publishing is at the heart of the European Research area was Mrs Dewandres’ main message and the essence of what she had to say. A staff member of the European Commission for many years, she moved to the science publishing area only recently. She was therefore interested to listen to the conference debates. She claimed that this reflected the attitude of Commissioner Potočnik with resp...

Public opinion regarding EU integration has become increasingly important in light of both increasing public scepticism to and the EU’s gradual shift towards core state powers (CSPs). This article contributes an emerging literature studying support for by investigating whether such integration, given its greater potential polarisation activation nationalist identities, is more likely be opposed...

Background: In the general population the prevalence of bipolar and schizophrenia is 0.24% and 1.4% respectively. People with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have a significantly reduced life expectancy, increased rates of unemployment and a fear of stigma leading to reduced self-confidence. A core outcome set is a standardised collection of items that should be reported in all controlled tr...

In participatory budgeting, communities collectively decide on the allocation of public tax dollars for local public projects. In this work, we consider the question of fairly aggregating the preferences of community members to determine an allocation of funds to projects. This problem is different from standard fair resource allocation because of public goods: The allocated goods benefit all u...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to identify histologic characteristics of advanced coronary atherosclerotic plaques that are related with the detection of the napkin-ring sign (NRS) in coronary CT angiography (CCTA). METHODS CCTA was performed in 7 human donor hearts. Histological slicing and stainings were performed in 1 mm increments of each major coronary artery. Histology was co-r...

BACKGROUND Because both public health surveillance and action are crucial, the authors initiated meetings at regional and national levels to assess and reform surveillance and action systems. These meetings emphasized improved epidemic preparedness, epidemic response, and highlighted standardized assessment and reform. METHODS To standardize assessments, the authors designed a conceptual fram...

In the previous lecture, we defined Public-Key Encryption system. We now proceed to define security in these systems. Intuitively, we would like the encryptions of different messages to be indistinguishable, even when the public key is known by the adversary. be a Public-Key Encryption system over the message space M. (Gen, Enc, Dec) is said to be secure, if for all p.p.t. A there exists a negl...