this paper seeks to investigate a new definition for architecture by unifying the three vitruvian principles of firmitas, utilities, and venustas via a phenomenological approach in the interpretation and analysis of their role in defining architecture. the paper is composed in two main sections. the first section investigates the nature of architecture based on the mentioned principles, where a...

BACKGROUND The lack of high quality timely data for evidence-informed decision making at the district level presents a challenge to improving maternal and newborn survival in low income settings. To address this problem, the EQUIP project (Expanded Quality Management using Information Power) implemented a continuous household and health facility survey for continuous feedback of data in two dis...

BACKGROUND The primary health care (PHC) sector is increasingly relevant as a site for population health interventions, particularly in relation to marginalized groups, where the greatest gains in health status can be achieved. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of an innovative multi-component, organizational-level intervention designed to enhance the capacity of PHC clinics t...

This paper presents a methodology f o r the evaluation of the performance of a given Haptic Display. The procedure can be carried out through the own proper sensors/actuarors which equip the haptic display and allows to characterize the device from a siatic/dynamicpoint of view.

In this paper we propose the use of a shared social context to facilitate agent perception of social dynamics within a virtual environment. We argue that through a shared context it can be more feasible to equip agents with social behaviors and reasoning rules for social intelligence, better suited for real-time constrained serious games with multiple agents.

This article addresses the principles of evidence-based practice and considers the essential elements involved in the process. The overall aim of the article is to equip nurses with the necessary knowledge and skills to use evidence-based practice competently and to make a positive contribution to patient outcomes.

A Hopf algebra object in Loday and Pirashvili’s category of linear maps entails an ordinary Hopf algebra and a Yetter–Drinfel’d module. We equip the latter with a structure of a braided Leibniz algebra. This provides a uni ed framework for examples of racks in the category of coalgebras discussed recently by Carter, Crans, Elhamdadi and Saito.

3 oxygen therapy have recently been published! Subsequent information may equip physicians with improved insight as to when low-flow oxygen therapy should be instituted earlier in the course of treatment and which patients may benefit most. The economic aspects of continuous low flow oxygen therapy demand careful investigation beibre further recommendations are made. Philip G. Boysen, M.D., F.C...

In this Chapter, we study étale morphisms of schemes. Our principal goal is to equip the reader with enough (commutative) algebraic tools to approach a treatise on étale cohomology. An auxiliary goal is to provide enough evidence to ensure that the reader stops calling the phrase “the étale topology of schemes” an exercise in general nonsense, if (s)he does indulge in such blasphemy.