BACKGROUND The desire of patients for personal continuity of care with a General Practitioner (GP) has been well documented, but not within non-registered private patients in Ireland. This study set out to examine the attitudes and reported behaviours of private fee-paying patients towards continuity of GP care and universal registration for patients. METHODS Cross-sectional telephone survey ...

Transgender people encounter many barriers to health care, and recommendations about where their treatment would best be offered can promote or thwart good care. This case examines the care setting from the perspective of a patient whose experiences with specialists have been negative. We argue that an ethos of harm reduction and informed consent, with a strong emphasis on continuity of care wi...

We consider a nite or in nite family of closed convex sets with nonempty intersection in a normed space A property relating their epigraphs with their intersection s epigraph is studied and its relations to other constraint quali cations such as the linear regularity the strong CHIP and Jameson s G property are estab lished With suitable continuity assumption we show how this property can be en...

Abstract. We show that for each weakly majorizing measure there is a natural metric with respect to which sample paths of stochastic processes are Hölder continuous and their Hölder norm satisfies a strong integrability condition. We call such metric a minorizing metric. The class of minorizing metrics is minimal among all metrics assuring sample Hölder continuity of processes satisfying certai...

One proves existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to stochastic porous media equations under minimal monotonicity conditions on the nonlinearity. In particular, we do not assume continuity of the drift or any growth condition at infinity. AMS subject Classification 2000: 76S05, 60H15. Supported by the CEEX Project 05 of Romanian Minister of Research. Supported by the research program “Equ...

This paper introduces a cost-effective strategy to simulate the behavior of laminated plates by means of isogeometric 3D solid elements. Exploiting the high continuity of spline functions and their properties, a proper out-ofplane stress state is recovered from a coarse displacement solution using a post-processing step based on the enforcement of equilibrium in strong form. Appealing results a...

We prove that no finite time blow up can occur for nonlinear Schrödinger equations with quadratic potentials, provided that the potential has a sufficiently strong repulsive component. This is not obvious in general, since the energy associated to the linear equation is not positive. The proof relies essentially on two arguments: global in time Strichartz estimates, and a refined analysis of th...