This paper proposes a tool, called objSampler, for recording and recalling encounters with real world objects, such as products, places, and individuals. It consists of a state-of-art device called objPipette to record conscious encounters, uCore for recording unconscious encounters, and objScope associated with objDish for recalling encounters on GUI. We adopted RFID technology to record consc...

In this paper we explore the types of encounters that technology enables. We consider the differences between digital and non-digital encounters, and investigate how technology can be appropriated for shared interactions that support conscious (or unconscious) social encounters. Finally, we describe two prototypes that generate different types of digital encounters in a city context, and we dis...

Utilization of ACTs in Ghana has been low due to the high cost of the ACTs. The AMFm program which implements a subsidization of ACTs was therefore introduced in Ghana in august 2010. This program aims at increasing access to effective ACTs by making the ACTs available and affordable. Phase 1 of this program is presently being implemented in Ghana and will be evaluated after 24 months to determ...

Background: The importance of empathic, person-centred care that is responsive to the individual patients’ needs is increasingly visible in national and international healthcare policies but there is a need for practical tools to help healthcare practitioners. The CARE Approach is a new ‘generic’ learning tool that aims to foster the achievement of empathic, person-centred communication in heal...

INTRODUCTION Long delays from symptom onset to the diagnosis of occupational asthma have been reported in the UK, Europe and Canada and workers are often reluctant to seek medical help or workplace solutions for their symptoms. Reducing this delay could improve workers' quality of life, and reduce the societal cost of occupational asthma. This study aimed to explore reasons behind such delays. ...

Solving consensus in wireless ad hoc networks has started to be addressed in several papers. Most of these papers adopt system models similar to those developed for wired networks. These models are focused towards node failures while ignoring link failures, and thus are poorly suited for wireless ad hoc networks. The HO model, which was proposed recently, does not have this drawback. The paper ...

We study the Lyaponov exponent y A (E) of (h u) (n) = u(n + 1) + u(n-l) + A V (n) u (n) in the limit as A +a where V is a suitable random potential. We prove that yA(E)-ln A as A +CO uniformly as E/A runs through compact sets. We also describe a formal expansion (to order A-*) for random and almost periodic potentials. In this note, we study one-dimensional tight binding Hamiltonians h = ho + A...

Now you see me, now you don’t, this might be a fitting exit line for a dubnium atom slipping through our hands as it decays by sending out an alpha particle. However, the chemist gets the last laugh, as it is this very vanishing act that makes the one-atom-at-a-time chemistry experiments on element 105, a heavier analogue of tantalum, feasible. As one of the most hotly disputed elements during ...

Lorant, T. 2002. Studies of Rejection in Experimental Xenotransplantation. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1211. 60 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-554-5476-3. One main hurdle to xenotransplantation, i.e. transplantation between different species, is the immunological barrier that the organ meets in the recipient. The aim of thi...

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