INTRODUCTION An increase in initiatives to improve integration of care provides the need for instruments that assess the degree of integrated care as perceived by patients across cultural contexts. This article aims to explain the relevance of equivalence and contextualization approaches in translating and adapting the Patient Perception of Integrated Care Survey developed in the US for use in ...

Wage and Employment Determination in Volatile Times: Sweden 1913-1939 The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing, involving inflation running at ...

Robotic telesurgery is a promising application of robotics to medicine, aiming to enhance the dexterity and sensation of regular and minimally invasive surgery through using millimeter-scale robotic manipulators under control of the surgeon. With appropriate communication links, it would also be possible to perform remote surgery for care in rural areas where specialty care is unavailable, or t...

For 1 6 ` < k, an `-overlapping k-cycle is a k-uniform hypergraph in which, for some cyclic vertex ordering, every edge consists of k consecutive vertices and every two consecutive edges share exactly ` vertices. A k-uniform hypergraph H is `-Hamiltonian saturated if H does not contain an `-overlapping Hamiltonian k-cycle but every hypergraph obtained from H by adding one edge does contain such...

New phenylmercury(II) complexes of the form [PhHg(L1), PhHg(L2) and PhHg(L3)] (L1 = methyl-3-hydroxy-3-(p-methoxyphenyl)-2-propenedithioate (1), L2 = methyl-3-hydroxy-3-(p-bromophenyl)-2-propenedithioate (2) and L3 = methyl-3-hydroxy-(3-pyridyl)-2-propenedithioate (3)) have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, IR, UV-Vis, 1H and 13C NMR. The crystal structures of 1–3 reveal...

The main part of this note is to show a general covering lemma in Rn, n 2 2 , with the aim to obtain the estimate for BMO norm and the volume of a nodal set of eigenfunctions on Riemannian manifolds. This article is a continuation of our previous work [L]. In [L] we proved a covering lemma in R2 and applied it to the BMO norm estimates for eigenfunctions on Riemannian surfaces. The principal pa...

BACKGROUND A person's participation is acknowledged as an important outcome of the rehabilitation process. The Participation Scale (P-Scale) is an instrument that was designed to assess the participation of individuals with a health condition or disability. The scale was developed in an effort to better describe the participation of people living in middle-income and low-income countries. The a...

The polyamine analogue, N1,N12-bis(ethyl(-spermine (BESPM), is known to suppress ornithine and S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase levels, deplete intracellular polyamine pools, and inhibit cell growth. Among human melanoma cell lines, MALME-3 cells were found to be typically sensitive to the antiproliferative activity of the BESPM, whereas LOX cells were atypically insensitive to the analogue. ...