Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is frequently used in Portugal and it contributes to the improvement of people’s health. CAM and Western Medicine (WM) are taken as complements both in the diagnosis and the treatment stage. The Portuguese health system is able to generate certified CAM professionals but the provision of CAM care and services is not included in the national health sy...

LAMA is a propositional planning system based on heuristic search. Its core feature is the use of a pseudo-heuristic derived from landmarks, propositions that must be true in every solution of a planning task. It builds on the Fast Downward Planning System, using non-binary (but finite domain) state variables, and multi-heuristic search. A weighted A∗ search is used with iteratively decreasing ...

This paper deals with the convergence aspect of diffusive delay Lotka-Volterra systems with infinite delays. It is well known that such a system has a globally asymptotically stable steady state if the negative feedbacks of the intraspecific competitions are dominant and instantaneous. It is shown here that such a globally asymptotically stable steady state continues to exist even if the instan...

The stability of a nonlinear stochastic dynamic system with singular perturbations is considered. Based on the notion of stochastic input-to-state stability and using time scale decomposition, a result of the total stability type is obtained, i.e. if the fast subsystem and the slow subsystem are both input-to-state stable with respect to disturbances, then this property continues to hold for th...

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development of the modern education system and iranian high interest to study the new science and broad support government over the last century of the modern educational system, and high costs to expand and improve its quality by no means enter science and scientific attitude to life, not an iranian relations. system of economic production and social relations and political structure of modern...

As the field of surgical robotics continues to evolve, it is important to keep patient safety in mind. This paper describes a safety control architecture aimed at moving an experimental system in the direction of intrinsically safe operation. The system includes safety features such as: a small number of states, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) state transition control, active enable, brakes...

A regional health authority administrator contends that, lacking privacy legislation, patients in Great Britain cannot depend on a concept of 'ownership' of medical records to safeguard their confidentiality, or on their physicians alone to control all access to these records. Therefore, it is proposed that 'custodianship' of confidential information be assumed by a health care institution as ...

In her March 2002 editorial, Dr Moncrieff raises doubts about the efficacy of antidepressant drugs, and argues that side-effects of the active drug may explain some of the differences owing to the associated increased expectancy of a positive effect. Our 24-week study (Malt et al, 1999) comparing the efficacy of empathic primarycare counselling and support combined with placebo, a selective ser...