OBJECTIVE South Africa has a shortage of facilities and psychiatrists to assess adjudicative competence of prisoners awaiting assessment under sections 77 to 79 of the Criminal Procedures Act of 1977. Various solutions have been proposed by the Department of Health. The recent linking of a Magistrate's court and a prison by videoconferencing offers the opportunity to implement a forensic teleps...

In the construction process of smart grid, an assessment on primary equipments intelligent transformation is an urgent content in the first batch of intelligent substation pilot project. Wide investigation of intelligent substation pilot projects was conducted seriously in several regional power grids in China. An mathematical model was established to assess the substation primary equipments in...

HE MASTERY OF RISK DISTINGUISHES modern times from the past: By understanding and measuring risks and their consequences, modern humans no longer perceive the future as a whim of the gods and thereby have been empowered to transform their world (Bernstein, 1996). Strangely, IT project management, despite the fact that it deals with “modern” technologies, is embarrassingly immature in the master...

One of the key elements of the NHS information strategy of 1998 was the development of electronic patient records. These were expected to be developed within organisations and to be capable of being linked into a patient focused electronic health record, which would form a lifetime record of health and health care for each patient within the NHS. This vision has been modified slightly by update...

Purpose: Recent work on diffusion of innovation insists on the importance of the processual dimensions of an innovation’s adoption. Context: In the course of a pilot-project aiming to implement three service integration networks for people losing their autonomy, we performed an analysis of the prior conceptions the various actors held of two founding principals: integration and coordination. Th...

In this age of modern era, the use of internet must be maximized. Yeah, internet will help us very much not only for important thing but also for daily activities. Many people now, from any level can use internet. The sources of internet connection can also be enjoyed in many places. As one of the benefits is to get the on-line operating system projects using windows nt book, as the world windo...

BACKGROUND Historically, torso obesity has been difficult to quantify. Digital technology has recently encroached into body contouring surgery but has not been developed by surgeons to aid with their anatomical mandates. METHODS For 3 years, the authors tested a three-dimensional digital body camera that used nonintrusive white light phase profilometry to produce a "point cloud" image of the ...

BACKGROUND Several previous global REDD+ cost studies have been conducted, demonstrating that payments for maintaining forest carbon stocks have significant potential to be a cost-effective mechanism for climate change mitigation. These studies have mostly followed highly aggregated top-down approaches without estimating the full range of REDD+ costs elements, thus underestimating the actual co...

BACKGROUND Children with chronic complex-medical conditions comprise a small minority of children who require substantial healthcare with major implications for hospital utilization and costs in pediatrics. Community-Based Pediatric Palliative Care (CBPPC) provides a holistic approach to patient care that can improve their quality of life and lead to reduced costs of hospital care. This study's...

OBJECTIVES In 2006, the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges reported that the shortage (≥ 1,500) of public health veterinarians is expected to increase tenfold by 2020. In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Preventive Medicine Fellows conducted a pilot project among CDC veterinarians to identify national veterinary public health workforce concerns and pot...