For some time now, the relationship between university and private enterprise has been receiving increasing attention, both from research policy planners and managers, with a view to enhancing cooperation, and from researchers analysing and seeking to improve and make such collaboration more effective through networking. The European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme, for instance, designed a s...

The Sentinels generate huge amounts of data with a high spatio-temporal resolution. This leads to new challenges in research and in the processing and archiving of big EO data. Based on the EODC concept this contribution provides an insight in the practical realisation of the ideas within the EODC framework. Next to the aspect of collaboration it focuses on the information exploitation within E...

Collaborative care models for treatment of depression and anxiety disorders in primary care have been shown to be effective. The aim of this study was to investigate at the municipal level to what extent investment in mental health personnel at primary care health centres in the study area is reflected in the costs and use of secondary psychiatric services. Furthermore, we analysed whether the ...

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become a standard therapy for some forms of severe movement disorders and is investigated for other neurological and psychiatric disorders, although many scientific, clinical and ethical issues are still open. We analyse how the Swiss DBS community addresses these problematic issues and future challenges. METHODS We have performed a surve...

The international agricultural research centres of the CGIAR have established a repository for agricultural learning resources in collaboration with the ARIADNE Foundation. To make it easier to find these resources, an application profile, CG LOM Core, was developed on the basis of the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) standard. It defines the collection of metadata elements and value spaces ...

This paper reports on the development of an asynchronous learning environment for the teaching of introductory macroeconomics to approximately 200 distance education students in 1999. The research supports evidence in the current literature that computer mediated communication and in particular, collaborative learning, can make a positive difference to the educational experience of some student...

Belfast, Boston Massachusetts, Oswestry Shropshire and Oxford were the sites of publications on the regionalisation of Orthopaedic Surgery centres which have led to our present trauma centres. Professors Andrew Fullerton and Thomas Sinclair of Queen’s Belfast were under the Allied Command of Sir Alfred Keough, head of the RAMC who appointed Robert Jones of Oswestry as Commander of Allied Orthop...

Abstract The Human Brain Project (HBP) ( https://humanbrainproject.eu/ ) is a large-scale flagship project funded by the European Commission with goal of establishing research infrastructure for brain science. This currently being realised and will be called EBRAINS https://ebrains.eu/ ). wide ranging services communities require diverse access, processing storage capabilities. As result, it st...

conclusions the positive attitude of most nursing students found in this study showed the need for appropriate and effective collaboration between medical staff; this collaboration will give patients and prospective patients the best possible care. background establishing professional communication between physicians and nurses regarding their supplemental roles in health care for patients is u...