When we speak, we spontaneously produce gestures (cospeech gestures). Co-speech gestures and speech production are closely interlinked. However, the exact nature of the link is still under debate. To addressed the question that whether co-speech gestures originate from the speech production system or from a system independent of the speech production, the present study examined the relationship...

BACKGROUND Health services face the challenges created by complex problems, and so need complex intervention solutions. However they also experience ongoing difficulties in translating findings from research in this area in to quality improvement changes on the ground. BounceBack was a service development innovation project which sought to examine this issue through the implementation and evalu...

conclusions light and temperature were both relevant factors that contributed to the growth and beta-carotene accumulation of the three d. salina strains, and nahco3 had significantly positive effects on growth. the degree of impact of the different factors on cell growth was temperature > nahco3 > light intensity > kno3 > co (nh2)2 > strains; the impact on beta-carotene accumulation was temper...

UK scientific advice on the possible health risks of mobile phones has embraced (or seems to be embracing) broader engagement with interested non-experts. This paper explains the context of lost credibility that made such a development necessary, and the implications of greater engagement for the construction (and expert control) of "public concern." I narrate how scientific advice matured from...

The objectives are to review results and experiences from interdisciplinary research projects in Research Centre for the Management of Animal Production and Health (CEPROS) concerning scientific content, organisation, and collaboration. The Centre has been founded as a result of an agreement between four institutions: the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences (DIAS), the Danish Veterinary L...

BACKGROUND Existing guidance for developing public health interventions does not provide information for researchers about how to work with intervention providers to co-produce and prototype the content and delivery of new interventions prior to evaluation. The ASSIST + Frank study aimed to adapt an existing effective peer-led smoking prevention intervention (ASSIST), integrating new content fr...

the key argument of this commentary is that patient choice has a broader meaning than suggested by consumerist choice models. in increasingly marketized health care systems with diversified and knowledge-based service arrangements, patients are continuously obliged to choose insurers, physicians or hospitals and treatments—whether they like it or not. however, health care users refer to a wide ...

The paper develops a theoretical background on the co-production approach as an extension of operations management principles, in which co-production function assumes well-defined functional form with the input presence of both firm and customers. The co-production approach not only views a customer as a co-producer, but also conducts strategic trade-offs between a firm and customers in service...