Our objective was to explore how individual and primary healthcare (PHC) organizational attributes influence patients’ ability in chronic illness self-management. We conducted a cohort study, recruiting 776 adults with chronic disease from 33 PHC settings in the province of quebec. Organizational data on the PHC clinics were obtained from a prior study. Participants were interviewed at baseline...

Abstract This article aimed to carry out a scoping review of the literature understand formal experiences social participation that have been developed in context Brazilian Primary Health Care (PHC), since creation National System (SUS) until November 2020. The databases LILACS, PubMed, PsycINFO, and Sociological Abstracts were searched, 20 articles included described PHC. results found discuss...

This paper experimentally investigates the relationship between the operating temperature and the power handling capability (PHC) of a coplanar waveguide (CPW) high-temperature superconducting (HTS) dual-band bandpass filter (DBPF) using a YBCO thin film deposited on a MgO substrate. The PHC is evaluated based on the intermodulation distortion of the HTS-DBPF. Experimental results show that the...

This paper presents the fabrication technology for a novel class of photonic devices. This technology integrates silicon 2-D photonic crystal (PhC) waveguides and electrostatically actuated bimorph cantilevers with tips that are self-aligned relative to the holes of the PhC. The bimorph cantilevers modulate the propagation properties of the slab PhC depending on the proximity of the tips to the...

This paper compares and investigates single-agent reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms on the simple and an extended taxi problem domain, and multiagent RL algorithms on a multiagent extension of the simple taxi problem domain we created. In particular, we extend the Policy Hill Climbing (PHC) and the Win or Learn Fast-PHC (WoLF-PHC) algorithms by combining them with the MAXQ hierarchical dec...

Received: June 12, 2017 Revised: October 24, 2017 Accepted: November 03, 2017 Abstract: Background and Objective: Prestressed high strength concrete pipe pile (PHC) shows brittle fracture when subjected to more than its own bearing capacity. Therefore, the non-prestressed steel bar is added to the PHC pipe pile, that is, the mixed reinforced pipe pile (PRC). The mechanical behavior of PRC group...

This paper reports the theoretical and experimental investigations on the strain sensing effect of a two dimensions (2D) photonic crystal (PhC) nanocavity resonator. By using the finite element method (FEM) and finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations, the strain sensitivity of a high quality factor PhC nanocavity was calculated. Linear relationships between the applied strain and the s...

Based on a preliminary study in February 2022 at the Medan Sunggal Primary Health Care (PHC), some PHC employees had inadequate work discipline. They did not comply with working hours. In addition, employee absence increased last three months of 2022. 10% them still obey regulation, such as wearing uniforms and using sandals work. This research analyzes correlation between leadership roles head...

Detailed analysis of a band diagram of a photonic crystal (PhC) slab prepared on a nano-diamond layer is presented. Even though the PhC is structurally imperfect, the existence of leaky modes, determined both theoretically and experimentally in the broad spectral region, implies that an efficient light interaction with a material periodicity occurs in the sample. It is shown that the luminescen...