IndigenousAustralians comprise 2.5% of the population of Australia, but 32.5% of people in the Northern Territory. Studies have documented the critical importance for Indigenous people from rural and remote areas of “finishing up” (the culturally appropriate reference to death and dying) on “country” (ancestral community and lands). Transferring sacred knowledge, providing culturally appropriat...

Remote collaboration on physical objects is a topic of recurring interest within the CSCW community. Up until now, research has primarily focused on stationary settings with specially designed technical support to address problems of reference due to non-mutual access to the object. In this workshop paper I present remote truck service as an example of work practices that require mobile remote ...

This paper presents an innovative web-based control laboratory focused on the necessity of control education community. The usefulness of the remote laboratory proposed in this paper is justified by the opportunity of organizing the remote experiments, saving time and money to the students.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether remote monitoring (structured telephone support or telemonitoring) without regular clinic or home visits improves outcomes for patients with chronic heart failure. DATA SOURCES 15 electronic databases, hand searches of previous studies, and contact with authors and experts. DATA EXTRACTION Two investigators independently screened the results. REVIEW METHODS ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the differences in medication dispensing errors between remote telepharmacy sites (pharmacist not physically present) and standard community pharmacy sites (pharmacist physically present and no telepharmacy technology; comparison group). DESIGN Pilot, cross-sectional, comparison study. SETTING North Dakota from January 2005 to September 2008. PARTICIPANTS Pharmacy st...

Climate warming in the Circumpolar World inflicts the greatest impact on the potential for sustainable living in remote northern communities. Attaining sustainable living is a process of reducing dependencies on outside influence for the supply of goods and services in all aspects of community life, and requires entrepreneurial action at the community level. The author builds on two prior publi...

OBJECTIVE To explore the knowledge of a panel of experts to develop possible ways of minimising the risk of occupational violence towards remote area nurses. DESIGN The Delphi method using open-ended questionnaires and an online survey to measure support for suggested control measures. SETTING Remote area nursing posts across Australia. PARTICIPANTS A panel of expert remote area nurses (n...

OBJECTIVE To document the development of unique opioid-dependence treatment in remote communities that combines First Nations healing strategies and substitution therapy with buprenorphine-naloxone. DESIGN Quantitative measurements of community wellness and response to community-based opioid-dependence treatment. SETTING Remote First Nations community in northwestern Ontario. PARTICIPANTS...

Remote island archipelagos offer superb opportunities to study the evolution of community assembly because of their relatively young and simple communities where speciation contributes to the origin and evolution of community structure. There is great potential for common phylogeographic patterns among remote archipelagos that originate through hotspot volcanism, particularly when the islands f...