Reports of how different countries are responding to the need to develop more integrated health and social care services for older adults can provide useful lessons for other health systems. However an understanding of how the wider structural, political, economic and cultural context affects implementation of these models of care is essential when considering the potential for models to be sca...

We construct optimized implementations of the controlled-NOT and other universal two-qubit gates that, unlike many of the previously proposed protocols, are carried out in a single step. The new protocols require tunable interqubit couplings but, in return, show a significant improvement in the quality of gate operations. We make specific predictions for coupled Josephson junction qubits and co...

Threshold (or relative magnitude) search is traditionally performed iteratively in a bit-serial manner in optical database/knowledge-base machines which results in an execution time proportional to the operand size. We present in this paper a single-step threshold search algorithm and its optical implementation. The proposed algorithm performs magnitude comparison in constant time, independent ...

We developed several FISH approaches to enable preimplantation genetic diagnosis of cancer predisposition syndromes. An overview of the applications and the results of those PGDs will be provided. In addition we developed several novel tools to genome wide screen for CNVs and SNPs in single cells. Those technologies are now being applied for polar body, blastomere and blastocyst screening for c...

There are great expectations regarding the potential contribution of integrated care interventions to improved outcomes, but so far the evidence is mixed. In this dissertation, we focussed on why, when and how some integrated care interventions contribute to improved outcomes, while others do not. To this purpose, we developed the COMIC Model for studying the Context, Outcomes and Mechanisms of...

In this work, an improved single-column chromatographic (ISCC) separation process is proposed. The term `improved' refers to both conceptual and physical modifications compared to the available single-column processes, including a novel fraction collection scheme and allowing overlapped peaks from adjacent cycles. Also the fraction collection mechanism was modified in order to facilitate online...

This document describes a FPGA implementation and simulation of the FFT component of the IIP Radiometer RFI processor described in [1]. A possible implementation of this FFT component has been previously described in [2]. Here a single FFT processor will be implemented and tested before proceeding to a larger design consisting of many such processors. This document is broken into three separate...

Sridhar Narayanan and Melvin A. Breuer have proposed techniques to minimize test application time on circuits using scan-path with a single scan chain. Their main idea is to employ multiplexers to bypass registers that are not frequently accessed in the test process. The obvious question is how many multiplexers should be inserted in the scan chain and where should they be inserted. The work pr...

Background and Objectives: Considering the importance of the radiology department, which devours most of the financial resources, efficiency and effectiveness in this department is one of the main concern of policymakers in most health care systems. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficiency and effectiveness of a radiology department before and after the implement...