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Yan, Z., N. Raza, L. Van Waerbeke, A. J. Mead, I. G. McCarthy, T. Tröster, and G. Hinshaw. "An analysis of galaxy cluster mis-centring using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 493, no. 1 (February 1, 2020): 1120–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa295.
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ABSTRACT The location of a galaxy cluster’s centroid is typically derived from observations of the galactic and/or gas component of the cluster, but these typically deviate from the true centre. This can produce bias when observations are combined to study average cluster properties. Using data from the BAryons and HAloes of MAssive Systems (BAHAMAS) cosmological hydrodynamic simulations, we study this bias in both two and three dimensions for 2000 clusters over the 1013–1015 M⊙ mass range. We quantify and model the offset distributions between observationally motivated centres and the ‘true’ centre of the cluster, which is taken to be the most gravitationally bound particle measured in the simulation. We fit the cumulative distribution function of offsets with an exponential distribution and a Gamma distribution fit well with most of the centroid definitions. The galaxy-based centres can be seen to be divided into a mis-centred group and a well-centred group, with the well-centred group making up about $60{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of all the clusters. Gas-based centres are overall less scattered than galaxy-based centres. We also find a cluster-mass dependence of the offset distribution of gas-based centres, with generally larger offsets for smaller mass clusters. We then measure cluster density profiles centred at each choice of the centres and fit them with empirical models. Stacked, mis-centred density profiles fit to the Navarro–Frenk–White dark matter profile and Komatsu–Seljak gas profile show that recovered shape and size parameters can significantly deviate from the true values. For the galaxy-based centres, this can lead to cluster masses being underestimated by up to $10{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$.
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Tamulevičienė, Daiva. "Responsibility centres in the system of controlling." Buhalterinės apskaitos teorija ir praktika, no. 15 (April 10, 2014): 126–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/batp.2014.15.11.
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Controlling is the new concept of modern management based on planning, control, accountability, and coordinate and consultative activity. One of the essential conditions of the installation of controlling is decentralization of management. The information in the system of controlling is accumulated and analysed not at the level of the whole company, but at the separate segments called as responsibility centres. The aim of the article is to examine the significance of the responsibility centres in the system of controlling and to propose the methodology of responsibility centres establishment and evaluation of theirs activity.
The responsibility centre might be a division of the company or some segment of activity or geography. Depending on what responsibility centres would be created in the company, that would have an effect on efficiency of the controlling system‘s behaviour. Although there exist many different features of the classification of responsibility centres, it is appropriate, in the companies‘ practice, to make responsibility centres in accordance with the fields of activity: cost, revenue, profit and investment centres. It is appropriate to make and install the system of responsibility centres and internal reporting by suggested sequence of four stages: organizational structure diagnostics; establishment of responsibility centres; establishment of internal reporting by the responsibility centres and establishment of the system of evaluation of the responsibility centres activity and motivation of employees.
The purpose of responsibility centres and installation of responsibility accounting in the controlling system is to ensure an efficient behaviour of the organization and the maximization of its results both in short-term and in long-term perspective. The only way to reach the purpose is by evaluating the input of each responsibility centre‘s to the overall result. The controlling service‘s task is to solve all the problems that occur in practice when establishing the responsibility centres and the reporting of responsibility centres and to select such indicators of the evaluation of each centre that would reflect the connection of activity of corresponding centre‘s employees and their achievements to the goals of organization in the best possible way.
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Bates, Katherine E., Sunkyung Yu, Colleen Mangeot, Judy A. Shea, David W. Brown, and Karen Uzark. "Identifying best practices in interstage care: using a positive deviance approach within the National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative." Cardiology in the Young 29, no. 3 (February 26, 2019): 398–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1047951118002548.
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AbstractIntroductionTo identify interstage best practices associated with lower mortality, we studied National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative centres registry using a positive deviance approach.MethodsPositive deviant and control centre team members were interviewed to identify potential interstage best practices. Subsequently, all collaborative centres were surveyed on the use of these practices to test their associations with centre mortality. Questionnaires were scored using Likert scales; the overall score was linearly transformed to a 0–100-point scale with higher scores indicating increased use of practices. Mortality was based on patients enrolled after a centre’s first year in the collaborative. Centre mortality rates were divided into tertiles. Survey scores for the low mortality tertile were compared with the other tertiles.ResultsFor this study, seven positive deviant and four control teams were interviewed. A total of 20 potential best practices were identified, including team composition, improvement practices, and parent involvement. Questionnaires were completed by 36/43 eligible centres, providing 1504 patients for analysis. Average survey score was 50.2 (SD 13.4). Average mortality was 6.1% (SD 4.1). There was no correlation between survey scores and mortality (r=0.14, p=0.41). The one practice associated with the low mortality tertile was frequency of discussion of interstage results: 58.3% of low mortality teams discussed results at least monthly versus 8.4% of the middle and high tertile centres (p=0.02).ConclusionsLow-mortality centres more frequently discuss interstage results than high-mortality centres. Heightened awareness of outcomes may influence practice; however, further study is needed to understand the variation in outcomes across centres.
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Humar, Atul, Jeff Lipton, Hans Messner, Allison McGeer, and Tony Mazzulli. "A Cross-Canada Survey of Cytomegalovirus Prevention and Treatment Practices in Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients." Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases 10, no. 6 (1999): 410–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1999/480541.
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OBJECTIVE: To gather information about cytomegalovirus (CMV) prevention and treatment practices in bone marrow transplantation (BMT) in Canada.DESIGN: A questionnaire was mailed to all centres across Canada performing BMT in January 1998. A second mailing was sent three months later.POPULATION STUDIED: Data on 15 centres performing allogeneic BMT (total patients 459) and 16 centres (total patients 703) performing autologous BMT were obtained.RESULTS: For allogeneic BMT, all donors and recipients had pretransplant CMV serology performed. Nine centres gave CMV-negative blood to only donor-negative/recipient-negative patients, four centres to all patients and two centres to other subgroups. All allogeneic BMT centres had a strategy for CMV prevention. Three centres used universal ganciclovir prophylaxis, while 12 centres used some form of pre-emptive ganciclovir therapy based on weekly antigenemia assays (four centres), weekly polymerase chain reaction (two centres), CMV blood cultures (one centre), CMV throat and urine cultures (one centre), CMV screening bronchoscopy (two centres), or a combination of antigenemia plus bronchoscopy (two centres). The dose and duration of pre-emptive ganciclovir varied considerably from centre to centre. In addition, many centres used high dose acyclovir universally for a variable period of time post-BMT. For the treatment of CMV pneumonia, 14 centres used ganciclovir plus immunoglobulin (IG) and one centre used ganciclovir alone. Ganciclovir treatment duration ranged from two to 11 weeks and the number of doses of IG from three to 18. Thirteen of 16 autologous BMT centres screened patients for CMV pretransplant. Ten centres used CMV negative blood for some or all of their patients. Only one centre performed routine CMV monitoring after autologous BMT.CONCLUSIONS: Practices for the prevention of CMV disease in BMT patients differ widely across centres, and further data may assist in developing a consensus regarding the optimal approach to CMV management.
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Liu, Jie, and Andreas Terzis. "Sensing data centres for energy efficiency." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 370, no. 1958 (January 13, 2012): 136–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2011.0245.
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Data centres are large energy consumers today, and their consumption is expected to increase further, driven by the growth in cloud services. The large monetary cost and the environmental impact of this consumption have motivated operators to optimize data centre management. We argue that one of the underlying reasons for the low-energy utilization is the lack of visibility into a data centre's highly dynamic operating conditions. Wireless sensor networks promise to remove this veil of uncertainty by delivering large volumes of data collected at high spatial and temporal fidelities. The paper summarizes data centre operations in order to describe the parameters that a data centre sensing network should collect and motivate the challenges that such a network faces. We present technical approaches for the problems of data collection and management and close with an overview of a data centre genome, an end-to-end data centre sensing system.
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Zhang, Y., T. Jeltema, D. L. Hollowood, S. Everett, E. Rozo, A. Farahi, A. Bermeo, et al. "Dark Energy Surveyed Year 1 results: calibration of cluster mis-centring in the redMaPPer catalogues." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 487, no. 2 (May 16, 2019): 2578–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1361.
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Abstract The centre determination of a galaxy cluster from an optical cluster finding algorithm can be offset from theoretical prescriptions or N-body definitions of its host halo centre. These offsets impact the recovered cluster statistics, affecting both richness measurements and the weak lensing shear profile around the clusters. This paper models the centring performance of the redMaPPer cluster finding algorithm using archival X-ray observations of redMaPPer-selected clusters. Assuming the X-ray emission peaks as the fiducial halo centres, and through analysing their offsets to the redMaPPer centres, we find that ${\sim } 75\pm 8 {{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of the redMaPPer clusters are well centred and the mis-centred offset follows a Gamma distribution in normalized, projected distance. These mis-centring offsets cause a systematic underestimation of cluster richness relative to the well-centred clusters, for which we propose a descriptive model. Our results enable the DES Y1 cluster cosmology analysis by characterizing the necessary corrections to both the weak lensing and richness abundance functions of the DES Y1 redMaPPer cluster catalogue.
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RAVI, B. G., and S. RAMASAMY. "STATUS OF STUDY OF COLOUR CENTERS IN CALCIUM FLUORIDE." International Journal of Modern Physics B 06, no. 17 (September 10, 1992): 2809–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217979292002255.
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A review is given on studies of different types of colour centres in calcium fluoride crystals. Production, analysis and application of some colour centres like F and F aggregate centres, M A centre, oxygen centre, colloidal centre, and photochromic centre are discussed. The results of ESR, ENDOR, Magnetic Circular Dichroism (MCD). Raman spectroscopy, positron annihilation spectroscopy are reviewed. Irradiation effects on the colourability of pure and doped calcium fluoride crystals are also discussed.
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Herguedas, Emilio Olmos, Daniel Baloup, Xavier Kawa‐topor, Pierre Lançon, and Isabelle Draelants. "Research centres‐centres de recherches." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 2, no. 1 (March 1995): 143–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13507489508568122.
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Jakovčić, Martina, and Ivica Rendulić. "Razvoj i funkcije kupovnih centara u Zadru." Geoadria 13, no. 1 (January 11, 2017): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.15291/geoadria.569.
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The paper deals with the development of retail centres in Zadar. Types of retail centres are classified on the basis of the type of business outlets and functions. Four main types of retail centres are: shopping centres, hypermarkets, specialized hypermarkets and shopping centres – hypermarkets. Typology based on the location of centres is also developed. Functions of retail centres are analyzed based on the results gathered by a survey conducted in two retail centres, namely City Galleria – Trgovinski centar Relja and Mercator centre.
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Schaffner, Sabina. "The language centre as a laboratory for innovation." Language Learning in Higher Education 10, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 317–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cercles-2020-2022.
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Abstract This paper discusses the potential of language centres in higher education as laboratories for innovation. Despite their hybrid character as central service providers that are also defined by their teaching, their positioning at the academic periphery, and the lack of a mandate to do academic research, language centres still have an obligation to conduct research as a means of promoting innovation. The design-based research (DBR) approach in learning and teaching, in which teaching stakeholders examine learning processes in real situation, offers a suitable opportunity for language centres to overcome the restrictions placed upon them. DBR can be done using existing resources and the innovation potential of a language centre’s teaching staff. The leadership and management of the language centre must be made responsible for providing and/or enabling the necessary structural, material, and cultural conditions for such research. This paper discusses the DBR approach at language centres in higher education and its impact on leadership. It then gives two examples of the successful implementation of DBR at the Language Center of UZH and ETH Zurich.
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Allen, Michael, Emma Villeneuve, Martin Pitt, and Steve Thornton. "How can consultant-led childbirth care at time of delivery be maximised? A modelling study." BMJ Open 10, no. 7 (July 2020): e034830. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034830.
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ObjectiveThe Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has advised that consolidation of birth centres, where reasonable, into birth centres of at least 6000 admissions per year should allow constant consultant presence. Currently, only 17% of mothers attend such birth centres. The objective of this work was to examine the feasibility of consolidation of birth centres, from the perspectives of birth centre size and travel times for mothers.DesignComputer-based optimisation.SettingHospital-based births.Population or sample1.91 million admissions in 2014–2016.MethodsA multiple-objective genetic algorithm.Main outcome measuresTravel time for mothers and size of birth centres.ResultsCurrently, with 161 birth centres, 17% of women attend a birth centre with at least 6000 admissions per year. We estimate that 95% of women have a travel time of 30 min or less. An example scenario, with 100 birth centres, could provide 75% of care in birth centres with at least 6000 admissions per year, with 95% of women travelling 35 min or less to their closest birth centre. Planning at local level leads to reduced ability to meet admission and travel time targets.ConclusionsWhile it seems unrealistic to have all births in birth centres with at least 6000 admissions per year, it appears realistic to increase the percentage of mothers attending this type of birth centre from 17% to about 75% while maintaining reasonable travel times. Planning at a local level leads to suboptimal solutions.
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Lavery, Nick, and Gavin Stratford. "Case Studying Technology Transfer in an Objective 1 Area." Industry and Higher Education 17, no. 2 (April 2003): 131–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000003101296792.
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Two major initiatives are in place in Wales that aim to create a strong and internationally competitive small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector. These are the Technology Exploitation Programme (TEP) and the Centres of Excellence for Technology and Industrial Collaboration (CETIC) programme. The Materials Centre of Excellence at the University of Wales Swansea is one of the centres in the CETIC programme with traditionally strong links to the Welsh manufacturing sector. This paper describes the Centre's experiences during its first year in the programme as a way of highlighting both the successes and difficulties in the implementation of EU Objective 1 technology transfer initiatives.
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Le Calvez, Kerlann, Peter Treasure, and Matt Williams. "Using surgical and oncology workload to plan brain tumour trial recruitment in England." Neuro-Oncology 21, Supplement_4 (October 2019): iv11—iv12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/noz167.047.
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Abstract Introduction Access to clinical trials is a common request for patients with brain tumours. However, opening clinical trials requires additional work per centre opened. We have previously shown that surgical and oncology workload varies between centres, and fluctuates over time. There is a trade-off between offering access to clinical trials and increasing costs associated with opening trials in centres that treat few patients. Methods We used two separate datasets from England covering 3 years – one for neurosurgical workload and one for radiotherapy. We only included adult patients and calculated cumulative proportions of the malignant primary brain tumour population (C71) by number of centres. We investigated stability by checking how many patients would have to be added/ removed from a centre to change their rank. Results There were 7061 surgical and 5060 radiotherapy patients. To capture 25% of patients, we would need to open trials in 4 surgical/5 radiotherapy centres; for 50%, 9 surgical/ 13 radiotherapy centres; for 75%, 16 surgical/ 24 radiotherapy centres. Centre rank was fluid: adding 16 surgical/9 radiotherapy patients would change the rank of a centre. Discussion These are the first data to allow for rational planning of trials in brain tumour patients. We have shown that we can reach 75% of the brain tumour population by opening trials in ~50% of surgical and radiotherapy centres. Centre rank alters over year, so we should be cautious about being too prescriptive. Nonetheless, these data should allow some rational planning of trial centre inclusion.
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Kane, Kevin, John R. Hipp, and Jae Hong Kim. "Los Angeles employment concentration in the 21st century." Urban Studies 55, no. 4 (December 6, 2016): 844–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016678341.
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This paper is an empirical analysis of employment centres in the Los Angeles region from 1997 to 2014. Most extant work on employment centres focuses on identification methodology or their dynamics during a period of industrial restructuring from 1980 to 2000. We analyse employment centres using point-based, rather than census tract-based employment data and a non-parametric identification method with a single concept of proximity. We focus on changes across five key industries: knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS), retail, creative, industrial and high-tech, emphasising changes in centre composition as well as their boundaries. Results show far greater change across centres than previous longitudinal studies. Only 43% of the land area that is in an employment centre is part of one in both 1997 and 2014. Using a persistence score, centres range from stable to highly fluctuating, but emerging, persisting and dying centres are found in core and fringe areas alike. KIBS are most associated with stable centres, while high tech employment is attracted toward emerging areas and retail exists throughout. Emerging centres are more likely to have greater accessibility, while industrial employment becomes far more concentrated in centres by 2014.
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Darling, Edward, Kathy Nanry, Ian Shearer, David Kaemmer, and Scott Lawson. "Techniques of paediatric modified ultrafiltration: 1996 survey results." Perfusion 13, no. 2 (March 1998): 93–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026765919801300204.
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In September 1996, perfusionists from 50 paediatric open-heart surgery programmes were contacted to identify centres that are currently using the technique of modified ultrafiltration (MUF). Of the 50 centres contacted, 22 (44%) were utilizing the technique. These centres were surveyed on the following: neonatal circuit description, patient entry criteria, MUF circuit description, conduct of MUF, use of extracorporeal safety devices and/or modifications, and technical complications. All 22 centres used roller pumps and membrane oxygenators. In 19 centres, MUF was utilized exclusively in the arteriovenous mode (86%), while two centres (9%) used the venovenous mode and one centre (5%) used both methods. Most (82%) of the 22 MUF centres used a blood cardioplegia system for myocardial preservation. After cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), these blood cardioplegia systems were often converted for use as MUF circuits in a variety of ways. Other methods of accessing the CPB circuit for MUF included utilizing either a recirculation line or a dedicated port added to the circuit specifically for MUF. Blood flow rates during MUF, pump strategies, haemoconcentrator vacuum levels and endpoints were variable from centre to centre. Technical complications related to MUF were reported by 82% of the surveyed MUF centres. The most common complication, air cavitating into the circuit, was reported by 15 centres. From these data, we propose recommendations on the integration of MUF into CPB circuits, the conduct of perfusion during MUF, and appropriate safety considerations to minimize technical complications.
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Krczal, Eva, and Tina Mock. "People-Centred Quality Indicators for Primary Care Centres." International Journal of Integrated Care 16, no. 6 (December 16, 2016): 300. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ijic.2848.
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Zucca, Alison, Rob Sanson-Fisher, Amy Waller, and Mariko Carey. "Patient-centred care: making cancer treatment centres accountable." Supportive Care in Cancer 22, no. 7 (April 3, 2014): 1989–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-014-2221-4.
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Ferronato, Priscilla, Lisa Mercer, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, and Stan Ruecker. "Living Labs and the DH Centre: Lessons for Each from the Other." KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 3 (February 27, 2019): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/kula.46.
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The digital humanities (DH) has a long and successful history of creating, using, and maintaining DH centres, as evidenced by the vast centerNet network. Furthermore, some of the most successful centres are constantly evolving in form and function. In this paper, we propose that the next phase in the evolution of the DH centre may involve a related phenomenon from the design research community, called the ‘Living Lab.’ The European Network of Living Labs describes them as dedicated to open forms of design for social good: ‘Living Labs (LLs) are defined as user-centred, open innovation ecosystems based on a systematic user co-creation approach, integrating research and innovation processes in real-life communities and settings.’ Current member labs deal with topics ranging from health and well-being (52%) to mobility (14%), but there are few that focus on issues central to DH, such as open social scholarship. We argue that incorporating more DH into the Living Labs network, and more Living Labs into DH centres, would benefit everyone involved. Specifically, DH labs could benefit from Living Labs’ experience with complex problems, and Living Labs could benefit from DH centres’ experience producing research.
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AlHarkan, Dora Hamad, Rawan Mohammed A. Altowayan, Amjad Mohammed Alharbi, Sahar Mohammed Aljumaiah, Lamia Ibrahim Alhijji, and Buthaina Suliaman B. Alkhezzy. "Pattern of ophthalmic referral from primary healthcare centres to secondary and tertiary hospitals in Qassim Province, Saudi Arabia." International Surgery Journal 7, no. 6 (May 26, 2020): 1763. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20202379.
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Background: References of patients with ocular diseases are an indirect indicator that reflects integration of primary eye care into primary health care system. The study reviewed the ophthalmic references from four randomly selected primary health care centres to ophthalmic unit of secondary and tertiary hospitals in Qassim Province of Saudi Arabia.Methods: This was a retrospective health record review study was undertaken at four PHC centres in Qassim region during the year 2017. All cases referred for eye care from January 2015 until December 2016 were included. Prevalence of ophthalmic reference, profile of ophthalmic patients and ophthalmic diagnosis were analysed.Results: From primary health care centres, 423 eye cases from 1,387,996 population of catchment area were referred. The annual prevalence of eye reference was 1.5 per 10,000. Vision screening and diabetic retinopathy evaluation comprised of 55.5% of total reference.Conclusions: Poor reference pattern from primary health care centers to secondary and tertiary eye centre suggest urgent and strong need of implementing primary eye care in the primary health care centres of Saudi Arabia. Referral of simple eye cases are increasing the workload of ophthalmologists and can delay urgent referrals like cases of diabetic retinopathy screening.
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Lloyd, Clem, and Neil Anderton. "FROM GROWTH CENTRES TO GROWTH CENTRES?" Australian Planner 28, no. 3 (September 1990): 6–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.1990.9657466.
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Gaad, Eman. "Assessing the Needs of People with Disabilities in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE." Journal of Education and Vocational Research 4, no. 11 (November 30, 2013): 331–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/jevr.v4i11.139.
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While there are many opportunities for people with disabilities (PWD) in Abu Dhabi (AD), UAE, there hardly been a study of what is required to get such people to meet their full potentials. This study commenced December 2012 and lasted for 4 months. The needs assessment based study tried to answer questions like what is needed to achieve the enhancement of the quality of life of PWD in AD region during and after school/centre times. It also looked at what type of needs (financial, assistive, emotional, and other) those people might have, and what are the needs of the parents of PWD that support the development of their children to reach their full potentials. Adding to that what could be recommended to bridge the gap in such needs. The purpose was mainly to develop a good understanding of the landscape. Benchmarking was undertaken from all private centers and scanning the needs of all parents of PWD in government centers across AD as well. It is hoped that researching the findings would help to develop the services on offer for PWD in the Emirate of AD. In order to achieve the aims of this study, 8 centres were selected out of the total of 17 which is the number of private centres in AD. The selection was based on size, location and type of disability as a purposeful sample to insure fair representation of the centres. The researcher conducted 8 filed visits of centers in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain to assess their current services, operating model etc. Individual briefs were prepared for every center with comparisons across specific factors. Scanning all the needs of all the parents of people with disability in the government centres across Abu Dhabi was looked at differently. To insure validity of the data and because the Emirati people with disability clustered mainly in government centres, all nine government centres under Zayed Higher Organization for Humanitarian Care were visited and sample interviews (qualitative and quantitative) from all centres were undertaken. Selected participants were used to interview and investigate up close (purposeful sampling). Findings showed that there is a desperate need for support after school hours despite the care offered during school hours for those who are in school age. Parents need support on several levels especially with how to spend quality time with their children with disabilities.
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Eifrig, B., H. Lenk, H. Pollmann, I. Scharrer, A. Huth-Kühne, and R. Zimmermann. "Register von Hämophilie-Zentren in Deutschland." Hämostaseologie 32, S 01 (2012): S12—S19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0037-1619769.
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SummaryAn adequate number of qualified haemophilia centres is an essential requirement for effective and cost-efficient haemophilia care. During a reassessment of the delivery of haemophilia care in Germany a broad range of criteria relating to structure and quality of the centres were defined and a questionnaire was developed. Results: Of 137 doctors who received the questionnaire, 113 (82%) replied. Based on data related to diagnostic and treatment services, together with voluntary information from PEI forms (Paul Ehrlich Institut, Germany), 72 haemophilia centres were established. Three levels of haemophilia care were defined by the Medical Advisory Council of the German Haemophilia Society. This is in accordance with criteria defined by European working parties. 17 haemophilia centres were designated CCC (Comprehensive Care Centre), 24 were designated HTC (Haemophilia Treatment Centre) and 31 smallest centres were allocated the status HTR (Haemophilia Treatment Regional). In comparison to the survey in 2007, there was only slight variance in the CCC centres (+ 2 centres/–1 centre). From the previous HTC centres, 7 have withdrawn from this treatment level: 4 maintain treatment on the lower level HTR, and 3 centres had ceased treatment. On the HTR level of treatment, 6 of 29 (21%) had ceased to offer treatment. 9 had been able to increase the number of patients and were designated HTC. 5404 patients with haemophilia and 3047 with the severe form of haemophilia were reported. 67% were treated in CCC, 25% in haemophilia treatment centres and 8% in the 31 smallest centres. 13 of the adult CCC are situated in the department of internal medicine and 4 in the section of transfusion medicine. Conclusions: The survey and analysis of the haemophilia treatment centres in Germany show that the delivery of haemophilia care through 17 CCC, 24 HCT and 31 HTR appears to be adequately structured. But it is noticeable and alarming, however, that on both HTC and HTR levels of treatment, 32% and 21%, respectively, have left their treatment level. 9 centres (12.5%) have finished working in haemophilia care in the last four years. On the strength of these results, endeavours to maintain haemophilia centres must be intensified. A high level of effective care can be guaranteed only through continued existence of the centres.
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Ko, JY Peter, Franziskus Heigl, Yun Mui Yiu, Xing-Tai Zhou, Tom Regier, Robert I. R. Blyth, and Tsun-Kong Sham. "Soft X-ray excited colour-centre luminescence and XANES studies of calcium oxide." Canadian Journal of Chemistry 85, no. 10 (October 1, 2007): 853–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/v07-109.
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In this study, we show that colour centres can be produced by irradiating calcium oxide with soft X-rays from a synchrotron radiation source. Using the X-ray excited optical luminescence (XEOL) technique, two colour centres, F-centre, and F+-centre can be identified. These colour centres emit photons at characteristic wavelengths. In addition, by performing time-resolved XEOL (TRXEOL), we are able to reveal timing and decay characteristics of the colour centres. We also present X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectra collected across oxygen K-edge, calcium L3,2-edge, and calcium K-edge. Experimental results are compared with density functional theory (DFT) calculations.Key words: calcium oxide, colour centre, synchrotron, X-ray excited optical luminescence, X-ray absorption near-edge structure.
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Calenge, Christian. "Centre et centralité, périphérie et centres de périphérie." Géographes associés 24, no. 1 (2000): 73–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/geoas.2000.2442.
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Evans, Michael C. W., Matthew C. Berry, Peter J. Bratt, Olga Kaminskaya, and Jonathan H. A. Nugent. "Metal—Redox Centre interactions in photosynthetic reaction centres." Biochemical Society Transactions 22, no. 3 (August 1, 1994): 718–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bst0220718.
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Warnaby, Gary, David Bennison, and Barry J. Davies. "Marketing Town Centres: Retailing and Town Centre Management." Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit 20, no. 2 (May 2005): 183–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13575270500053282.
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The role of town centre management (TCM) schemes in the UK has expanded to incorporate a more overt and explicit focus on marketing and promotion. This paper considers the marketing/promotional activities of TCM schemes in the UK. TCM schemes operate at the interface of the public and private sectors. The implications of this are discussed, including the need for a consensual approach by a wide range of urban stakeholders, and the actual activities undertaken, influenced by the funding imperative under which such schemes operate (which impacts on the feasibility of certain activities and the efforts made to evaluate them). Comparisons are drawn between specific place marketing practice by TCM schemes and wider place marketing strategies.
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Määttä, Mirja. "Reforming youth transition support with the multi-agency approach? A case study of the Finnish one-stop guidance centers." Sociologija 61, no. 2 (2019): 277–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/soc1902277m.
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Finland is trying to expedite and support young people?s transition to productive adulthood in various ways. Face-to-face guidance in multi-agency service points, the One-Stop Guidance Centers, has formed a central means for the last three governments. In these centres, a young person under the age of 30 can get help from different professionals in matters related to work, education and everyday life. This study asks how the centres define their tasks and target groups, and how the centres relate to the service reformation. The data consists of peer-learning surveys for the employees of the centres, conducted in 2015, 2016 and 2017.The research approach is inspired by membership categorisation analysis (MCA) pointing out that institutions think and act by means of categories: they produce client classifications and problem definitions, which define their service provision. The data analysis mixes MCA and content analysis. The centres have no dominant administrative sector or profession that would provide the target settings and categorisations to be directly applied in their work. Instead, these are negotiated inter-professionally and locally. The analysis shows that the employees reflect their task against the problems of the old service provision system. The centres want to stand apart from the bureaucratic and siloed service provision system as a youth-centred and holistic service. Developing a new way of working necessarily means questioning the conventional categories of clients and actions. Yet, the possibility to develop the ?new? varies between the professional groups and the geographic areas. The detailed and detached legislation of different administrative branches also delimit it.
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G., Abhijnana, Selvi Thangaraj, Ranganath T. S., and Vishwanath . "Comparing infrastructure of anganwadi centres under integrated child development services of urban and rural Bangalore: a cross sectional study." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 6, no. 10 (September 26, 2019): 4510. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20194521.
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Background: Anganwadi centres under integrated child development services is the largest Project in India to improve not only child health but reproductive, maternal and adolescent health. The aim of the present study is to compare the infrastructure of urban and rural anganwadi which is one of the basic need to provide quality services.Methods: A total of 30 anganwadi centres are involved in our study in which 20 are from rural and 10 are from urban field practice area of Department of Community Medicine, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bangalore. This study employed interview method with anganwadi worker’s and observation of anganwadi centre using pre-designed, semi structured questionnaire and checklist.Results: 85% of rural and 60% urban anganwadi centres have their own buildings to carry out the services. 20% of rural anganwadi centres lack fixed name boards compared to urban anganwadi centres. 55% of rural anganwadi centres and 90% of urban anganwadi centres lack separate storage for raw food materials. 15% of rural anganwadi centres lack functional toilet facility. 40% of rural anganwadi centres lack functional weighing machine.Conclusions: Anganwadi centres are remote contact point of health care system within the community. The infrastructure of anganwadi centre such as type of building, space for cooking and activities, availability of functional equipments ensure the quality service deliveries which in turn are enhanced by timely supervision from higher authorities.
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Peng, Philip WH, Ingrid Fedoroff, Line Jacques, and Krishna Kumar. "Survey of the Practice of Spinal Cord Stimulators and Intrathecal Analgesic Delivery Implants for Management of Pain in Canada." Pain Research and Management 12, no. 4 (2007): 281–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/312582.
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BACKGROUND: In 2006, the Canadian Neuromodulation Society was formed. The present survey characterizes the practice of spinal cord stimulator (SCS) and intrathecal analgesic delivery pump (IADP) implantation for pain management in different centres across Canada.METHOD: A structured questionnaire was designed to examine the funding source, infrastructure and patient screening process in different centres implanting SCSs and IADPs. Centres that performed more than 10 implants per year were surveyed. The survey was centre-based, ie, each centre received one questionnaire regardless of the number of staff involved in neuromodulation practice.RESULTS: Fourteen centres were identified and 13 responded. Implantation of SCS and IADP was performed in 12 and 10 centres, respectively. In most centres, failed back surgery syndrome was the most frequent indication for SCS and IADP implantation. For SCS, all centres always performed a trial; the majority used percutaneous electrode (83%) before the SCS implantation. Routine psychological screening was performed in 25% of centres before any SCS trial procedure. For IADP, all centres performed a trial injection or infusion before implantation. Five centres (50%) performed psychological screening in almost all patients. Continuous infusion techniques were the most popular (50%) used for the trial.CONCLUSION: The present survey provides a ‘snapshot’ of the practice of SCS and IADP implantation in Canada. A review of SCS and IADP trials indicated that Canadian practices are mostly, but not always, consistent with those elsewhere.
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Tornatzky, Louis, Kay Lovelace, Denis O. Gray, S. George Walters, and Eliezer Geisler. "Promoting the Success of US Industry/University Research Centres." Industry and Higher Education 13, no. 2 (April 1999): 101–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095042229901300202.
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The industry/university (I/U) research centre, once a novelty on university campuses, has become the dominant vehicle for industry's funding of academic research in the USA. While the authors' recent volume, ‘Managing the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center’, documents a variety of skills and competencies needed to build and sustain these boundary-spanning organizations, none plays a more important role in centre success than leadership. Drawing on the literature on leadership and over fifteen years of experience with and research on the National Science Foundation's Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers programme, the authors define and illustrate leadership in the context of an I/U research centre. Leadership in a cooperative research centre often involves helping constituencies to deal with adaptive challenges, situations which require learning both to define the problem and to develop and implement a solution. Since these situations usually involve constituencies with conflicting values and priorities, they are typically best resolved by a participatory leadership style. Critical leadership challenges observed in cooperative research centres are discussed, including: exercising intrapreneurship, creating a compelling technical vision, spanning organizational boundaries, creating cooperative research teams, managing a changing centre and knowing oneself.
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Haro-González, Mónica, Raquel Pérez-Ordas, Marta Leyton-Román, Alicia Caamaño-Guadix, and Alberto Nuviala. "Grupos de usuarias del mercado deportivo femenino (Groups of users in the women sports market)." Retos, no. 34 (November 18, 2017): 123–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.47197/retos.v0i34.59193.
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La industria deportiva sabe que las necesidades e intereses de la población femenina no son las mismas que las de los varones y por ello en el mercado han aparecido centros deportivos y de fitness exclusivos para mujeres. El objeto de este estudio fue segmentar a mujeres que realizan prácticas físico deportivas en centros deportivos, utilizando como variables de agrupación diferentes tipos de motivación (intrínseca, integrada, identificada, introyectada, externa y desmotivación) y comprobar las diferencias entre las usuarias que acuden a centros mixtos y las que acuden a centros exclusivos femeninos. La población objeto de estudio estuvo conformada por 745 mujeres con una edad media 32.97±14.11 años, pertenecientes a 62 centros deportivos y de fitness. El 36.60% de las mujeres eran usuarias de centros exclusivos. Los resultados establecieron dos grupos. Los factores motivación identificada y desmotivación fueron los más relevantes para distribuir a las mujeres en los segmentos. El grupo uno mostró valores más altos en motivación integrada, identificada e intrínseca. El grupo dos presentó valores más altos en motivación introyectada, externa y desmotivación. En el grupo uno se encuentra la mayoría de las usuarias de centros exclusivos, mientras que un 40% de las usuarias de centros mixtos están enmarcadas en el grupo dos. Los resultados muestran que existen dos grupos de usuarias de servicios deportivos y de fitness, uno con niveles altos de motivación autodeterminada conformado principalmente por usuarias de centros exclusivos y un segundo grupo con niveles bajos de motivación autodeterminada, pertenecientes en su mayoría a centros mixtos.Abstract. Sports industry knows that needs and interests of the female population are not the same as those of men. Therefore, sports and fitness centres exclusive to women have appeared in the market. The aims of this study were to segment women who do physical-sports activities in sports centres, using different kinds of motivation (intrinsic, integrated, identified, introjected, external and lack of motivation) as a grouping variable, and to verify the differences among users who attend mixed centres and those who go to exclusive female centres. The subjects of the study were 745 women with a mean age of 32.97 ± 14.11 years, belonging to 62 sports and fitness centres. 36.60% of the women were users of exclusive centres. Results established two groups. Identified motivation and lack of motivation were the most relevant factors to distribute women in the segments. Group one showed higher values in integrated, identified and intrinsic motivation. Group two presented higher values in introjected, external motivation, and lack of motivation. In group one, the majority of users attended exclusive centres, while 40% of the users of mixed centres were placed in group two. Results show that there are two groups of users of sports and fitness services, one with high levels of self-determined motivation (composed mainly of users of exclusive centres), and a second group with low levels of self-determined motivation, mostly belonging to mixed centres.
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Taylor, Nick, Wayne McClintock, and Brigid Buckenham. "Social impacts of out-of-centre shopping centres on town centres: a New Zealand case study." Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 21, no. 2 (June 2003): 147–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3152/147154603781766428.
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Bachelard, Mireille. "Les centres commerciaux intégrés en centre-ville (Commercial centres located in the center of the cities)." Bulletin de l'Association de géographes français 64, no. 3 (1987): 271–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/bagf.1987.1395.
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Cionita, Tezara, Nor Mariah Adam, Juliana Jalaludin, Mariani Mansor, and Januar Siregar. "Measurement of Indoor Air Quality Parameters in Daycare Centres in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia." Applied Mechanics and Materials 564 (June 2014): 245–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.564.245.
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This paper focuses on the monitoring of indoor air quality parameters, namely: indoor temperature, humidity, velocity, particulate matter, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in day care centres. This study selected 15 day care centres located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. These day care centres were categorized as follows: (1) day care centers near an industrial area, (2) day care centers near a main road, and (3) day care centers in a residential area. The obtained data showed that the values for the indoor air quality parameters in all day care centres were still well below the recommended value according to the Department of Safety and Health, Malaysia. The day care centers near an industrial area had the highest value of carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide as compared to the day care centers near a main road and the day care centers in a residential area. The average concentrations of carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide in the day care centers near an industrial area were 3.67 ppm and 801.56 ppm respectively. Meanwhile, the carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide in the day care centers near a main road area and the day care centers in a residential area were 3.13 ppm, 768.22 ppm, 2.92 ppm and 733.70 ppm, respectively.
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Kaur, S., R. Gupta, I. D. Khan, S. Jindal, S. Prajapati, A. Makkar, and K. S. Rajmohan. "INFRASTRUCTURE, RESOURCES, SERVICES EVALUATION AND GAP ANALYSIS OF INTEGRATED MATERNAL AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES IN INDIA." International Journal of Medicine and Medical Research 4, no. 2 (March 1, 2019): 67–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.11603/ijmmr.2413-6077.2018.2.9286.
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Background. Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is an Indian community-centric government program organized under Anganwadi centres catering to supplementary nutrition, health and preschool education, primary healthcare, growth monitoring and counselling the children under six years old along with their mothers. It is the world’s largest outreach program in a developing country covering a population of 1.35 billion; the variations in service delivery were analysed involving cross-sectional rural and urban Anganwadi centers in New Delhi.
Methods. Data were collected by assessment of children and mothers, interview of Anganwadi workers and observation of service delivery parameters and conduction of activities. Infrastructural, beneficiaries, services and content were evaluated by a suitable pre-tested questionnaire based on the National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD) evaluation proforma. The data was analysed by a descriptive statistics.
Results. Gaps were found in respect of infrastructure, resources, health and nutrition facilities especially at rural Anganwadi centre which was inadequate in terms of implementation of nutrition and health program, supplementary nutrition, preschool education and nutrition rehabilitation centre for existing beneficiaries. Both Anganwadi centres were not catering for new WHO growth standards and adolescent health.
Conclusions. Gaps found in respect of infrastructure, resources, health and nutrition facilities can affect performance of ICDS program and the services delivered by Anganwadi centres, which need a boost. Both urban and rural centres have a direct opportunity towards delivering adolescent health program focusing on nutrition and education of girls prior to their pregnancy, and adoption of new WHO growth standards.
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Girgensohn, Katrin, Íde O'Sullivan, Ann-Marie Eriksson, and Gina Henry. "A Cross‐national View on the Organisational Perspective of Writing Centre Work: the Writing Centre Exchange Project (WCEP)." Journal of Academic Writing 10, no. 1 (December 18, 2020): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.18552/joaw.v10i1.603.
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This paper gives insights into research conducted within the Writing Centre Exchange Project (WCEP), a research collaboration among three university writing centres in Sweden, Germany and Ireland, which focuses on organisational perspectives on writing centre work. WCEP rests on the theoretical framework of institutional work. Previous research, conducted in US writing centres, developed a model of institutional work in writing centres that includes specific Strategic Action Fields (SAFs) and collaborative learning as a means to interact with stakeholders. By using this model, WCEP has targeted ongoing institutional work intended to establish and sustain missions, goals and activities in and around writing centres. Drawing on participatory action research, WCEP explores the extent to which the institutional work at the three European writing centres correlates with the model. The main findings show that indeed the same strategic action fields are relevant, but furthermore, different subcategories emerge depending on the local context. This paper explores some of the subcategories that differ and draws conclusions for the institutional work of writing centre directors.
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Chalk, Daniel. "Determining optimal locations for urgent care centres in Cornwall using computer modelling." British Journal of Healthcare Management 25, no. 7 (July 2, 2019): 235–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2019.0034.
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Background/Aims Urgent care centres provide a broad range of services in comparison to minor injury units. In order to establish new urgent care centres, the Sustainability and Transformation Partnership in Cornwall aimed to identify the optimal number and location for these centres, which could then help to reduce the volume of patients attending emergency departments. Methods A computer model that calculated average and maximum travel times, along with number of attendances, for over 4000 potential urgent care centre geographic configurations, was developed. The model predicted that establishing five urgent care centres would significantly minimise travel times for patients across the county. The model also predicted the locations for these centres that would minimise average travel times. Results The results from the model were used to directly inform a decision made by the Sustainability and Transformation Partnership. Conclusion The first urgent care centres in Cornwall, at Treliske, Bodmin Community Hospital and West Cornwall Hospital, were established in 2018. The urgent care centre in West Cornwall is now accepting patients; the two other sites are still under construction.
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Pebusque, M. J., M. Vio-Cigna, B. Aldebert, and R. Seite. "Circadian rhythm of nucleoli in rat superior cervical ganglion neurons: the two types of fibrillar centres and their quantitative relationship with the nucleolar organizing regions." Journal of Cell Science 74, no. 1 (March 1, 1985): 65–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jcs.74.1.65.
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A quantitative stereological analysis was undertaken in nucleoli of rat superior cervical ganglion neurons. In this model, two types of fibrillar centres were observed: (1) small-type fibrillar centres were observed during the light span; and (2) a single large-type fibrillar centre occurred during the dark span near the smaller ones. The present data showed that the drastic increase in the mean volume of fibrillar centres during the dark span involved the occurrence and the progressive enlargement of one single large-type fibrillar centre and a marked rise in the number of small-type centres from 18 +/− 2 to 74 +/− 5 at 1500 h and 0100 h corresponding to light and dark spans, respectively. The total number of these small-type fibrillar centres per nucleolus increased with the total volume whereas their unit volume remained unchanged. This enabled us to establish some relationship with nucleolar organizing regions (NORs).
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Wolniak, Radosław, and Michalene Eva Grebski. "Comparative Analysis of the Level of Satisfaction with the Services Received at the Business Incubators in USA and Poland – pre-incubation and incubation stage." Production Engineering Archives 20, no. 20 (September 1, 2018): 38–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.30657/pea.2018.20.08.
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Abstract The paper concentrate on the problems of customers satisfaction from services in incubator centres in USA and Poland. The aim of the paper is to analyse the level of satisfaction of Business Incubation Centre on the example of two incubator centres one from USA (Hazelton CAN-Be in Pennsylvania and second in Gliwice Poland). The analysis was conducted in pre-incubation and incubation stage. The analysis was conducted on example of survey analysis in both incubator centres. On the base of achieved results we assessed the priority of customers in each incubator centre.
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Hartmann, H. E. K. "Phytogeography of the subtribe Leipoldtiinae (Mesembryanthemaceae)." Bothalia 17, no. 2 (October 23, 1987): 205–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/abc.v17i2.1037.
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An investigation of distribution and species frequency of the nine genera of the subtribe Leipoldtiinae shows that two centres of diversity can be distinguished. These coincide more or less with the 'Gariep centre’ in the north and the ’Vanrhynsdorp centre' in the south (both sensu Nordenstam 1969). Speciation seems to have occurred in both centres. The subtribe may have evolved in an arid winter rainfall area which could have been situated outside its present distribution area. The centres of distribution coincide with those observed in both subfamilies of the Mesembryanthemaceae.
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AKUAMOAH-BOATENG, CLARA. "Study Centre Sanitary Conditions and Its Impact on Health and Academic Outcomes of Distance Learners at University of Cape Coast." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 7, no. 12 (December 31, 2019): 515–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol7.iss12.2103.
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This study examined the impact of Study Centre Sanitary and hygiene conditions and its impact on health and academic outcomes of Distance Learners at the University of Cape Coast (UCC). The major objective of the study was to find out how sanitary conditions at the host institutions used by the College of Distance Education (CoDE), as study centers for distance education (DE) delivery, impact on the health and academic status of distance education learners. Data was gathered using mainly self-developed and administered questionnaire. The simple random technique was used to select 300 DE learners from 10 study centers in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Approval by the Institutional Research and Ethics Committee of the University of Cape Coast and informed consent from study participants were sought. The results of the study indicated that the state of sanitary conditions and general hygiene practices at CoDE study centres was poor, unmaintained, and inadequate in almost all study centres. This demonstrated that investment in school infrastructure was not given the due priority. The negative impact on the health status and academic outcomes of learners were due to inadequate sanitary facilities despite learners’ knowledge on good personal hygiene and sanitation practices. The study concluded that physical sanitary facilities at CoDE study centres within the study area were in a deplorable state and inadequate for the learner population in the host institutions. Gaps were identified in school management of resources and enforcement of school health, hygiene and sanitation practices. It was recommended that (CoDE-UCC) collaborates with host institutions to improve sanitation and hygiene practices at the study centres for the benefit of learners.
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Firliansyah, Eterna, Mirza Dikari Kusrini, and Arzyana Sunkar. "Pemanfaatan dan Efektivitas Kegiatan Penangkaran Penyu di Bali bagi Konservasi Penyu." Journal of Tropical Biodiversity and Biotechnology 2, no. 1 (October 4, 2017): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jtbb.25690.
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Sea turtle has been widely consumed in Bali since the 1970s mostly for religious activities. After many international critics, various stakeholders (governments, NGOs, environmentalists and Balinese people) developed the so-called “turtle conservation centre” as means to conserve sea turtles. The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of those conservation efforts by evaluating the conservation activities of each conservation centres. We visited five sea turtle conservation centres in Bali; all were named as captive breeding centres or farm. The captive breeding centre is misleading as there is no activity related to captive breeding, mostly hatchery. Some of the eggs were not even originated from Bali, and the centres were sometimes used as the source for sea turtle for religious purposes. Based on the scoring, only one centre is active in terms of conservation. Turtle conservation program in Bali should increase their in situ program, i.e. mapping and protecting the nesting habitat and conducting regular monitoring of nesting turtle.
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Marić, Ivan, and Ante Šiljeg. "Application of Huff model in analysing market competition – example of shopping centres in the settlement of Zadar." Geoadria 22, no. 1 (November 9, 2017): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.15291/geoadria.1335.
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The object of the research is market competition between the shopping centres in the settlement of Zadar. The research is based on the spatial data collected by using various methods and techniques, which were analysed by applying the tools of geographic information system (GIS) with respect to specific laws of market economy. A categorization of shopping centres was made in order to define a broad trade area where the competition between the centres was analysed. A demographic raster was used to define the density of potential consumers within a broad market area. The competition analysis included the determination of the centres’ market zones, the occurrence of potential market cannibalism and the definition of the dominant shopping centre according to a variable of choice probability. The market zones were determined based on the attribute of duration of drive (min). On-site research, calculation of non-linear distance and the analysis of shopping centres’ density, led to a conclusion that market cannibalism occurs between the centres. For the purpose of predicting market dominance, Huff model was used to calculate average values of preference of centres within the zones of overlapping and the broad trade area. The results of Huff model confirm the market reality that a larger number of consumers within the zones of overlapping and the broad trade area prefer a more attractive shopping centre. The difference in number of people that visit a more attractive shopping centre was quantified by overlapping the demographic raster and the Huff model.
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Kohzuki, Yohichi, and Tomiyasu Ohgaku. "Study on Luminescence of KCl:Eu2+ Crystals after X-ray Irradiation at Room Temperature." Crystals 9, no. 7 (June 28, 2019): 331. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cryst9070331.
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Bleaching with the F-light at the excitation bandpass of 20 nm results in the phenomenon that F-centre peak and thermoluminescence (TL) glow peaks due to Fz- and F-centres identically decrease with the F-bleach time, whereas TL glow peak due to Fz-centre only remains almost constant irrespective of its time in the case of that at the excitation bandpass of 5 nm. Analysing the data on bleaching effects, absorption spectrum of X-ray irradiated KCl:Eu2+ crystal has a peak due to Fz-centre approximately within 20 nm of the wavelength 560 nm at F-centre peak. Electrons released from Fz-centres at 370 K and from F-centres at 450 K combine with Eu3+ ions, leading to the excited Eu2+ ions from which the luminescence at 420 nm is emitted.
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Görgec, B., R. S. Fichtinger, F. Ratti, D. Aghayan, M. J. Van der Poel, R. Al-Jarrah, T. Armstrong, et al. "Comparing practice and outcome of laparoscopic liver resection between high-volume expert centres and nationwide low-to-medium volume centres." British Journal of Surgery 108, no. 8 (July 1, 2021): 983–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znab096.
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Abstract Background Based on excellent outcomes from high-volume centres, laparoscopic liver resection is increasingly being adopted into nationwide practice which typically includes low-medium volume centres. It is unknown how the use and outcome of laparoscopic liver resection compare between high-volume centres and low-medium volume centres. This study aimed to compare use and outcome of laparoscopic liver resection in three leading European high-volume centres and nationwide practice in the Netherlands. Method An international, retrospective multicentre cohort study including data from three European high-volume centres (Oslo, Southampton and Milan) and all 20 centres in the Netherlands performing laparoscopic liver resection (low-medium volume practice) from January 2011 to December 2016. A high-volume centre is defined as a centre performing >50 laparoscopic liver resections per year. Patients were retrospectively stratified into low, moderate- and high-risk Southampton difficulty score groups. Results A total of 2425 patients were included (1540 high-volume; 885 low-medium volume). The median annual proportion of laparoscopic liver resection was 42.9 per cent in high-volume centres and 7.2 per cent in low-medium volume centres. Patients in the high-volume centres had a lower conversion rate (7.4 versus 13.1 per cent; P < 0.001) with less intraoperative incidents (9.3 versus 14.6 per cent; P = 0.002) as compared to low-medium volume centres. Whereas postoperative morbidity and mortality rates were similar in the two groups, a lower reintervention rate (5.1 versus 7.2 per cent; P = 0.034) and a shorter postoperative hospital stay (3 versus 5 days; P < 0.001) were observed in the high-volume centres as compared to the low-medium volume centres. In each Southampton difficulty score group, the conversion rate was lower and hospital stay shorter in high-volume centres. The rate of intraoperative incidents did not differ in the low-risk group, whilst in the moderate-risk and high-risk groups this rate was lower in high-volume centres (absolute difference 6.7 and 14.2 per cent; all P < 0.004). Conclusion High-volume expert centres had a sixfold higher use of laparoscopic liver resection, less conversions, and shorter hospital stay, as compared to a nationwide low-medium volume practice. Stratification into Southampton difficulty score risk groups identified some differences but largely outcomes appeared better for high-volume centres in each risk group.
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Goncalvesová, E. "Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Centre – A Model for Rare Disease Management / Centrum pre pľúcnu artériovú hypertenziu – model v manažmente zriedkavých chorôb." Acta Facultatis Pharmaceuticae Universitatis Comenianae 60, Supplementum-VIII (March 1, 2013): 22–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/afpuc-2013-0004.
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Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare disease with average median survival rate about 3 years from the establishment of the diagnosis, except for PAH associated with congenital heart diseases. Diagnosis and management of PAH concentrate in the dedicated centres (reference centres, centres of expertise). The purpose of a reference centre is to undertake assessment and investigation of all causes of pulmonary hypertension, PAH-specific drug therapy, cooperation with other healthcare specialist, and to undertake research and education. In general, high volume centres achieve best outcomes, because of effective concentration of the specific experience and skills needed for rare disease management. The paper brings brief characteristic of the reference centre for PAH according the guideline of European Society of Cardiology as well as own experience in this field.
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Hawkins, Janine, Nigel Smeeton, Amanda Busby, David Wellsted, Beth Rider, Julia Jones, Retha Steenkamp, et al. "Contributions of treatment centre and patient characteristics to patient-reported experience of haemodialysis: a national cross-sectional study." BMJ Open 11, no. 4 (April 2021): e044984. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044984.
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ObjectivesTo examine the relative importance of patient and centre level factors in determining self-reported experience of care in patients with advanced kidney disease treated by maintenance haemodialysis (HD).DesignAnalysis of data from a cross sectional national survey; the UK Renal Registry (UKRR) national Kidney patient-reported experience measure (PREM) survey (2018). Centre-level data were obtained from the UKRR report (2018).SettingNational survey of patients with advanced kidney disease receiving treatment with maintenance HD in UK renal centres in 2018.ParticipantsThe Kidney PREM was distributed to all UK renal centres by the UKRR in May 2018. Each centre invited patients receiving outpatient treatment for kidney disease to complete the PREM. These included patients with chronic kidney disease, those receiving dialysis—both HD and peritoneal dialysis, and those with a functioning kidney transplant. There were no formal inclusion/exclusion criteria.Main outcome measuresThe Kidney PREM has 38 questions in 13 subscales. Responses were captured using a 7-point Likert scale (never 1, always 7). The primary outcome of interest was the mean PREM score calculated across all questions. Multilevel modelling was used to determine the proportion of variation of the mean PREM score across centres due to patient-related and centre-related factors.ResultsThere were records for 8253 HD patients (61% men, 77% white) from 69 renal centres (9–710 patients per centre). There was significant variation in mean PREM score across centres (5.35–6.53). In the multivariable analysis there was some variation in relation to both patient- and centre-level factors but these contributed little to explaining the overall variation. However, multilevel modelling showed that the overwhelming proportion of the explained variance (45%) was explained by variation between centres (40%), only a small proportion of which is identified by measured factors. Only 5% of the variation was related to patient-level factors.ConclusionsCentre rather than patient characteristics determine the experience of care of patients receiving HD. Further work is required to define the characteristics of the treating centre which determine patient experience.
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Ramesh, Chundru, Komaragiri Rao, and Gunamani Jena. "Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm Efficient Implementation Using Centre of Centres." International Journal of Intelligent Engineering and Systems 11, no. 5 (October 31, 2018): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.22266/ijies2018.1031.01.
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Rodionov, Ivan. "Foreign Centres of Belarusian Studies.The Ostrogorski Centre in London." Izvestia of Smolensk State University, no. 1 (53) (April 12, 2021): 186–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.35785/2072-9464-2021-53-1-186-198.
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The article analyzes the activities of the Ostrogorski Centre as one of the most active Belarusian organizations in the UK nowadays. The research is based on the analysis of the publications taken from The Journal of Byelorus-sian Studies and the course «The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in European and Belarusian History» offered by Ostrogorski Academy. The history of the Journal of Byelorussian Studies dates back to the mid-1960s. The journal was initiated by the Anglo-Belarusian Society. The first issue of the Yearbook was published in 1965. The journal as a whole tended towards a philological (linguistic) orientation. The General theme of articles on histori-cal Belarusian topics in the journal was firstly of random, fragmentary charac-ter, without a common editorial purpose and the philosophy of the journal his-torical issues: for example, the description of individual issues of «Nasha Niva» newspaper is replaced by articles about the role of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the daily life of the nobles, presented in memoirs, the influence of Belarus-ian masters on Moscow architecture, etc. In the majority of the thematically «scattered» historical publications, one line clearly emerges –the national one. The journal was published again in 2013 due to the joint efforts of Os-trogorski Centre and the Anglo-Belarusian Society. It has acquired a more sci-entific structure. It publishes articles on Belarusian literature, linguistics, inter-national relations, civil society, history and art, as well as book reviews, which emphasizes its scientific component. The modern version of the journalcontains a larger number of articles on historical topics in comparison with the publica-tion of the second half of the 20th century. Publications of the modern journal deal with such topics as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the early Soviet period of the 1920–30s and belarusization, Western Belarus as a part of Poland, the period of the Second World War, Stalinism, personalities, etc.
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McGonigle, John, Anna Murphy, Louise M. Paterson, Laurence J. Reed, Liam Nestor, Jonathan Nash, Rebecca Elliott, et al. "The ICCAM platform study: An experimental medicine platform for evaluating new drugs for relapse prevention in addiction. Part B: fMRI description." Journal of Psychopharmacology 31, no. 1 (October 4, 2016): 3–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269881116668592.
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Objectives: We aimed to set up a robust multi-centre clinical fMRI and neuropsychological platform to investigate the neuropharmacology of brain processes relevant to addiction – reward, impulsivity and emotional reactivity. Here we provide an overview of the fMRI battery, carried out across three centres, characterizing neuronal response to the tasks, along with exploring inter-centre differences in healthy participants. Experimental design: Three fMRI tasks were used: monetary incentive delay to probe reward sensitivity, go/no-go to probe impulsivity and an evocative images task to probe emotional reactivity. A coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis was carried out for the reward and impulsivity tasks to help establish region of interest (ROI) placement. A group of healthy participants was recruited from across three centres (total n=43) to investigate inter-centre differences. Principle observations: The pattern of response observed for each of the three tasks was consistent with previous studies using similar paradigms. At the whole brain level, significant differences were not observed between centres for any task. Conclusions: In developing this platform we successfully integrated neuroimaging data from three centres, adapted validated tasks and applied whole brain and ROI approaches to explore and demonstrate their consistency across centres.