Physician ownership of in-office ancillary services (IOASs) has come under increasing scrutiny. Advocates of argue that IOASs allow physicians to supervise the quality and coordination of care. Critics have argued that IOASs create financial incentives for physicians to increase ancillary service volume. In this paper we develop a conceptual framework to evaluate the tradeoffs associated with p...

Automated demand response can be a valuable resource for ancillary services in the power grid. This paper illustrates this value with the first experimental demonstration of frequency regulation from commercial building Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. The experiments were conducted in a 40,000 sq. ft. commercial building located at the University of Florida campus. Deta...

Introduction. Major health issues and barriers to health services for Latino immigrants were identified through community-based participatory research in Baltimore city. Methods. In collaboration with community partners, five focus groups were conducted among Latino adults from 10 countries and health service providers. Findings. Priorities across groups included chronic diseases, HIV/AIDS and ...

Materials and methods This poster provides an overview of a unique agencybased integrated outpatient model for treating consumers with Clozaril and reports on 12 years of outcome findings (n = 114). These are the outcomes for the first 12 years of the Spectrum Clozaril Clinic for the period of 1993-2005. The “Spectrum Clozaril Clinic” model is built on an interdisciplinary team approach that em...

The modern low-voltage direct current (LVDC) distribution system merges ICT, power electronics and conventional grid technologies into single system. This paper gives an overview to the LVDC RULES research project and presents its first key results. The foundations of the project are laid by the lessons learned during earlier research projects. Impacts of providing ancillary services for the ne...

The ever-growing penetration of Converter-Interfaced Renewable Energy Sources (CI-RES) and the gradual decommission synchronous generators (SGs) are posing several challenges to guarantee stability robustness electric power system. A possible solution overcome foreseen problems is enable provision ancillary services (AS) by advanced CI-RES emulating SG performance. However, given fact that most...

Controlling the consumption profile of office buildings can be used to provide balancing services to the power grid at a financial benefit without violating its thermal comfort constraints. The economic advantage of such a service is a reduction in the total operating cost, but also an increase in average occupants’ comfort when using our control scheme. We study these effects for the case of p...

BACKGROUND Counting mitoses is subjective and time-consuming. The adjunctive diagnostic utility of a recently reported mitotic marker, phosphohistone H3 (PHH3), was investigated in gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). METHODS We reviewed 77 GISTs for several proliferative indices. These included the mitotic count per 50 high power fields (HPFs), the immunohistochemical Ki- 67 labeling ind...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether variations in the activities of general practice among family health service authorities can be explained by the populations characteristics and the organisation and resourcing of general practice. DESIGN The family health services authorities were treated as discrete primary health care systems. Nineteen performance indicators reflecting the size, distribution, a...