We have designed a three-layered model which involves the networks between people, the ontologies they use, and the concepts occurring in these ontologies. We propose how relationships in one network can be extracted from relationships in another one based on analysis techniques relying on this network specificity. For instance, similarity in the ontology layer can be extracted from a similarit...

This paper examines the main changes in the Chilean health system from the 1920s to the present, identifying contradictions, limits, and successes in terms of policy outcomes. Taking equity as the central theme, the analysis focuses on decisions made from the mid-1920s until 1973 in moving toward socialized medicine, with the sudden interruption of this process by the military coup in 1973. The...

Using the Strange Situation Test originally developed for testing the mother–infant relationship in humans, we compared the attachment behaviour of extensively socialized (hand-reared) dog, Canis familiaris, and wolf, Canis lupus, puppies towards their human caregiver with that of pet dog puppies of the same age. The experiment was designed to study whether (1) dog puppies as young as 16 weeks ...

This is a report about Saiseigakusha, the predecessor of Nippon Medical School, which advocated "Saisei-Kyumin", philosophy that obliged Saiseigakusha to extend social and frontline medical support ordinary people during Meiji Era. Founded in 1876, was one most prominent private schools time, it produced large number caring skilled doctors carry out tenets Saisei-Kyumin. The mission Saiseigakus...