INTRODUCTION .................................................................................... 1778 I. THE CONCEPTUAL AND FUNCTIONAL IMPORTANCE OF AN INTEGRATED HEALTH SYSTEM ........................................... 1783 A. Historical Interconnections .................................................. 1784 B. The Rationale for Integration .............................................. 178...

This paper presents an overview of the architecture for smart Nano grids, Integration of various diversified distributed generation technologies in Nano grids at small community level and different policies governing its implementation. The paper also reviews the current energy scenario of Pakistan with emphasis on the need of setting up small scale Nano grids with integration of V2G technology...

Northeast Asia and the Trends of the 21 st Century An Essay on the Northeast Asian Economic Community Jung-Dong Park In corresponding to present trends, it is necessary to organize an EU-like community in Asia, especially in the Northeast Asia. The Northeast Asian countries, including Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan and so on, have similar history, culture, and ethnic background, and therefore, it ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether participation in sports by persons with spinal cord injuries (SCIs) affected level of community integration as defined by the World Health Organization and as measured by the Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique (CHART). METHOD Forty-eight participants were recruited from a camp for persons with physical disabilities as...

OBJECTIVES To (1) translate and culturally adapt the English version Community Integration Measure into Chinese (Cantonese), (2) report the results of initial validation of the Chinese (Cantonese) version of CIM (CIM-C) including the content validity, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and factor structure of CIM-C for use in stroke survivors in a Chinese community setting, and (3) ...

With the rapid growth of information technologies, our economic society and life are changing significantly in this digital age. The digital revolution in our world is spurring on facilities, hardware, software, services, and capital investment. In order to keep competitive advantage in the times of digital economy, more and more countries and enterprises pay more and more attention to the deve...

In this presentation, we review some examples of successful biomedical data integration projects in which ontologies play an important role, including the integration of genomic data based on Gene Ontology annotations, the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) project, and semantic mashups created by the Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences community.

This paper presents research in Geographic Information Systems interoperability. Also, paper describes our work in development, introduces interoperability framework called GeoNis, which uses proposed technologies to perform integration task between GIS applications and legacy data sources over the Internet. Our approach provides integration of distributed GIS data sources and legacy informatio...

OBJECTIVE To report the formulation and implementation of an organ system based integrated curriculum for MBBS students at Ziauddin Medical University (ZMU) Karachi. STEPS OF INTEGRATION The Basic Medical Science Faculty (Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry) along with representatives from Medicine, Surgery and Community Health Sciences held joint meetings spread over weeks to design a syste...

This paper demonstrates how induced Communities of Practices (CoPs) can be initiated in combination with Customer Communities in order to increase profitability and develop a sustainable competitive advantage. The paper draws upon our experiences within Lilly Critical Care Europe 1 (Lilly CCE). The unique case study 2 highlights how induced CoPs were initiated to develop customer relevant compe...