Design Issues in Hospitals: The Adolescent Client

Five major issues that hospital administrators and strategic planners will face during this decade are outlined in this article. They include: health care costs, regulation, reimbursement, capitalization, and competition. Differences between…

To improve the quality of research and commentary concerning adolescent sexuality and evaluation of both comprehensive sexuality education and abstinence education programs, this article aims to help readers (1) select appropriate measures to study…

In this paper key design issues and considerations of a low-cost 3-D Cu-TSV technology are investigated. The impact of TSV on BEOL interconnect reliability is limited, no failures have been observed. The impact of TSV stress on MOS devices causes…

We characterize Participatory Design (PD) as a maturing area of research and as an evolving practice among design professionals. Although PD has been applied outside of technology design, here we focus on PD in relation to the introduction of…

Microarray experiments are used to quantify and compare gene expression on a large scale. As with all large-scale experiments, they can be costly in terms of equipment, consumables and time. Therefore, careful design is particularly important if the…

Design issues related to statistically matched wavelet design are discussed. It is shown that two-band PR-QMF schemes have energy compaction performance bounded by the respective performances of the 2×2 KLT and the 4×4 KLT. A novel…

The paper describes the network design and analysis of a multi-protocol application environment characterized by a client/server architecture, integration of legacy and distributed database structures, frame relay wide area network, and token ring…

Discusses several design issues in multilevel studies. First, this chapter emphasizes sample design issues in multilevel studies. The authors describe the importance of representative sampling and how the choice of sampling plan depends on the study…

With the rapid spread of XML documents over the Internet, many XML query languages are proposed to query XML documents to extract and restructure information. XQuery and XPath become the most promising standard. However, XML document is a tree…

As noted, many issues in the design of clinical trials and the analysis of data therefrom deserve consideration with respect to Alzheimer's disease. This chapter has emphasized the different types of experimental designs that appear most appropriate…