Managed care is reshaping our health care system, although long-term care is only beginning to feel its effects. We report on the managed care involvement of 492 multilevel, long-term care facilities (MLFs; including skilled nursing and assisted/independent living) nationally. Organizational structure and culture and especially environmental characteristics are associated with whether facilitie...

Growing up with Asperger's disorder is complex and fraught with difficulty. Although the literature includes some research related to the transition of youth with Asperger's disorder to school and employment, none pertains to the transition to adulthood and independent living. Although a marginal number of young adults with Asperger's disorder eventually achieve independence, many of them conti...

Many psychiatrists believe that there is little or no liability associated with conducting examinations at the request of a third party or with providing testimony in civil litigation. Case law has demonstrated otherwise. Psychiatrists conducting independent medical examinations (IMEs) may be vulnerable to tort lawsuits by either the evaluee or the third party who commissions the IME. In additi...

The world is extremely diverse and its diversity is obvious in the cultural differences and the large number of spoken languages being used all over the world. In this sense, we need to collect and organize a huge amount of knowledge obtained from multiple resources differing from one another in many aspects. A possible approach for doing that is to think of designing effective tools for constr...

For natural numbers n, r ∈ N with n ≥ r, the Kneser graph K(n, r) is the graph on the family of r-element subsets of {1, . . . , n} in which two sets are adjacent if and only if they are disjoint. Delete the edges of K(n, r) with some probability, independently of each other: is the independence number of this random graph equal to the independence number of the Kneser graph itself? We answer t...

Introduction: In the US, ageing and disability public policies, programs, and service systems have historically separate origins, age-based categorical eligibility, and distinct funding streams. This division creates barriers in serving persons ageing with disability transitioning from disability to ageing service systems and for older adults obtaining independent living services in disability ...

this research was carried out to identify the role of ict in intrapreneurship development in iranian agricultural extension organization. it was implemented as a correlational research through the use of casual model. statistical population of the study consisted of 2768 iran extension employees. one out of each six regional groups of provinces (n= 25) was randomly selected while 250 extension ...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this paper is to assess which wide type monitor configurations are preferred when physicians use an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system in an outpatient clinic setting. METHODS We selected three kinds of monitor configurations available for adoption at outpatient clinics with reference to monitor market trends. Fifteen attending physicians of the Seoul National ...

Based on an overview of designs and technological attempts to mediate physical work and learning environments carried out within an interdisciplinary research network at the KTH, the paper will address the broader epistemological implications arising from the use of new media in the service of new paradigms based on mixed media/reality environments (‘(re)mediated environments’, ‘media space’, ‘...