Accepted: December 22, 2015 Study carried out at Center for Language and Speech Research, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria – UFSM Santa Maria (RS), Brazil. 1 Universidade Federal de Santa Maria – UFSM Santa Maria (RS), Brazil. Financial support: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS). Conf...

New models of continuing medical education (CME) seek not only to impart knowledge but to change physicians' behavior and even play a role in facilitating organizational improvement. These CME models thus share some of the same basic goals as the field of quality improvement (QI), namely behavioral change and systems redesign to improve patient outcomes. This article provides some practical ide...

A Publication of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research More than one in four California women who are single mothers is uninsured, one-and-a-half times the rate for married mothers. This Policy Brief reports on health insurance coverage of single mothers ages 19-64 during the years 1998-1999 in California. Health insurance coverage facilitates access to and use of health services. However,...

With development of SOA, the complex problem can be solved by combining available individual services and ordering them to best suit user's requirements. Web services composition is widely used in business environment. With the features of inherent autonomy and heterogeneity for component web services, it is difficult to predict the behavior of the overall composite service. Therefore, transact...

We propose an extension to S-NET’s light-weight parallel execution layer (LPEL): dynamic migration of tasks between cores for improved load balancing and higher throughput of S-NET streaming networks. We sketch out the necessary implementation steps and empirically analyse the impact of task migration on a variety of S-NET applications.

Santander does not speculate on the reason for these patterns of student membership; in a useful introduction to the dictionary, she describes the form and purpose of the registers she has used, and fills in background details of the medical curriculum and the organization of the faculty. But despite its very real achievements, a historian may well regret that Escolares medicos never goes beyon...