UNLABELLED The purpose of this review is to examine cost implications, including cost-effectiveness analyses, cost-savings calculated from health-care utilisation and intervention delivery costs of arthritis-related self-management education (SME) interventions. METHODS Literature searches, covering 1980-March 2012, using arthritis, self-management and cost-related terms, identified 487 artic...

Atomic clock comparisons provide some of the most precise tests of Lorentz and CPT symmetries in the laboratory. With data from multiple such experiments using different nuclei, it is possible to constrain new regions of the parameter space for Lorentz violation. Relativistic effects in the nuclei allow us to disentangle forms of Lorentz violation which could not be separately measured in purel...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Abundant consumption of seaweeds in the diet is epidemiologically linked to the reduction in risk of developing cancer. In larger cases, however, identification of particular seaweeds that are accountable for these effects is still lacking, hindering the recognition of competent dietary-based chemo preventive approaches. The aim of this research was to establish the antipr...

This paper describes Talea [12], a platform aimed at supporting the development of web-based e-business applications. Talea is a software designed and developed within Diadi 2000 [4], a Piedmont Region project co-founded within the European Structural Funds framework. The main goal of Diadi 2000 is to support the technology transfer to SME (SME) in the Piedmont Region, in order to increase thei...

The complexes [BX3(m-L L)BX3] (X 1⁄4 Cl, Br, I; L L 1⁄4 EtS(CH2)2SEt, MeSe(CH2)2SeMe), [BX03{oC6H4(SMe)2}] (X’ 1⁄4 Cl, I), [(BBr3)2{o-C6H4(SMe)2}], [(BBr3)2{o-C6H4(SeMe)2}] and [BI3{o-C6H4(SeMe)2}] have been prepared as moisture-sensitive pale solids by reaction of the appropriate BX3 with the dichalcogenoether in anhydrous n-hexane solution, and characterised by microanalysis, IR and multinucl...

Animal hairs consisting of α-keratin biopolymers existing broadly in nature may be responsive to water for recovery to the innate shape from their fixed deformation, thus possess smart behavior, namely shape memory effect (SME). In this article, three typical animal hair fibers were first time investigated for their water-stimulated SME, and therefrom to identify the corresponding net-points an...

Using the Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) technique, the gonadotropin releasing-hormone (GnRH) mRNA and GnRH receptor (GnRH-R) mRNA were analyzed in the preoptic area (POA), anterior (AH) and ventromedial (VM) hypothalamus, stalk/median eminence (SME) and anterior pituitary gland (AP) of anestrous ewes subjected to short or prolonged footshock stimulation. No GnRH gene ...

The focus of this study was to investigate the relationship between: (1) information communication technology (ICT) operational risk management (ORM) and (2) performance of small to medium enterprise (SME). To achieve the focus, the research investigated five specific research objectives that included the principal causes of ICT ORM failure in SME: change management requirements; characteristic...

Indonesia has a lot of SMEs as well as significant employment. However, it is estimated SMEs only producing less than 40 percent of the GDP of Indonesia. This is because SMEs mainly in the fields of agriculture and handicraft industry has a low productivity of the total 53 million SMEs that exist, one of the only place due to lack of mastery of information technology and entrepreneurial skills....

The research into SME’s is often presented as quite distinct from strategy or general management research. This paper examines the literature on Strategic Decision Making (SDM) process, drawing in some findings from the SME sector which show some key similarities. The paper makes proposals for research into SDM processes in SME’s, which would clarify both the general management theory and theor...