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Reference for radiographic film interpreters
Reference of X-ray film images provides examples of weld defects, film quality, stainless steel welded tubing, and acceptable weld conditions. A summary sheet details the discrepancies shown on the film strip. This reference aids in interpreting and evaluating radiographic film of weldments
Compact cartridge drives coded tape at constant readout speed
To facilitate storage and repetitive reading of short-program coded tape, a cartridge case, containing mechanical drive and readout assemblies, has been fabricated. The drive transports the tape past a conventional pickup device during the reading function
Law and the Balance of Power. By Stewart Macaulay
I dagens samhÀlle blir vi allt mer beroende av internet. Myndigheter försöker med hjÀlp av e-delegationen införa e-förvaltning. E-deltagande Àr en del av e-förvaltningen som innebÀr att medborgare fÄr chans att lÀmna sina synpunkter elektroniskt via nÄgon form av verktyg pÄ internet. Tidigare studier visar pÄ att det oftast Àr en medelÄlders, föreningsaktiv och vÀlutbildad man som deltar i planeringfrÄgorna. Unga, lÄgutbildade och kvinnor deltar dÀremot mindre frekvent vid rÄdande deltagarmöjligheter. Denna kandidatuppsats har dÀrför fÄtt frÄgestÀllningarna: Hur pÄverkas medborgarnas delaktighet i planeringsprocessen av e-deltagande? Samt: Vilka möjligheter och hinder skapar e-deltagande nÀr det gÀller inflytande i planeringsfrÄgor? Studien grundar sig pÄ tidigare skriven litteratur samt en fallstudie av tvÄ fall i Nacka kommun: Henriksdal och FisksÀtra. TjÀnstemÀn pÄ Nacka kommun har intervjuats för att syftet med projektet ska klargöras samt att fÄ en inblick i hur dialogformer fungerar i en expansiv kommun. Resultatet visade pÄ ett ökat intresse för planeringsfrÄgor i de tvÄ fallen samt att det finns möjligheter för inflytande genom dialogen dÄ den publiceras pÄ hemsidan tillgÀnglig för allmÀnheten. Kommunen mÄste dock inte följa de konkreta förslag som inkommit utan mÄste göra avvÀgningar mellan allmÀnna och enskilda intressen. Slutsatsen grundar sig i att inflytande i planeringen Àr bra, men att det kan vara ett sken av inflytande i den kommunala planeringen eftersom frÄgorna som stÀlls till medborgare inte gÄr ut pÄ om nÄgot ska byggas, utan snarare vad.
The Waste Land of Law School Fiction
Reviews of: The Paper Chase by John Osborn; The Letter of the Law by Katherine Roome; The Socratic Method by Michael Levi
Information architecture for a federated health record server
This paper describes the information models that have been used to implement a federated health record server and to deploy it in a live clinical setting. The authors, working at the Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education (University College London), have built up over a decade of experience within Europe on the requirements and information models that are needed to underpin comprehensive multi-professional electronic health records. This work has involved collaboration with a wide range of health care and informatics organisations and partners in the healthcare computing industry across Europe though the EU Health Telematics projects GEHR, Synapses, EHCR-SupA, SynEx and Medicate. The resulting architecture models have fed into recent European standardisation work in this area, such as CEN TC/251 ENV 13606. UCL has implemented a federated health record server based on these models which is now running in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Whittington Hospital in North London. The information models described in this paper reflect a refinement based on this implementation experience
London SynEx Demonstrator Site: Impact Assessment Report
The key ingredients of the SynEx-UCL software components are:
1. A comprehensive and federated electronic healthcare record that can be used to
reference or to store all of the necessary healthcare information acquired from a
diverse range of clinical databases and patient-held devices.
2. A directory service component to provide a core persons demographic database to
search for and authenticate staff users of the system and to anchor patient
identification and connection to their federated healthcare record.
3. A clinical record schema management tool (Object Dictionary Client) that enables
clinicians or engineers to define and export the data sets mapping to individual
feeder systems.
4. An expansible set of clinical management algorithms that provide prompts to the
patient or clinician to assist in the management of patient care.
CHIME has built up over a decade of experience within Europe on the requirements
and information models that are needed to underpin comprehensive multiprofessional
electronic healthcare records. The resulting architecture models have
influenced new European standards in this area, and CHIME has designed and built
prototype EHCR components based on these models. The demonstrator systems
described here utilise a directory service and object-oriented engineering approach,
and support the secure, mobile and distributed access to federated healthcare
records via web-based services.
The design and implementation of these software components has been founded on
a thorough analysis of the clinical, technical and ethico-legal requirements for
comprehensive EHCR systems, published through previous project deliverables and
in future planned papers.
The clinical demonstrator site described in this report has provided the solid basis
from which to establish "proof of concept" verification of the design approach, and a
valuable opportunity to install, test and evaluate the results of the component
engineering undertaken during the EC funded project. Inevitably, a number of
practical implementation and deployment obstacles have been overcome through
this journey, each of those having contributed to the time taken to deliver the
components but also to the richness of the end products.
UCL is fortunate that the Whittington Hospital, and the department of cardiovascular
medicine in particular, is committed to a long-term vision built around this work. That
vision, outlined within this report, is shared by the Camden and Islington Health
Authority and by many other purchaser and provider organisations in the area, and
by a number of industrial parties. They are collectively determined to support the
Demonstrator Site as an ongoing project well beyond the life of the EC SynEx
Project.
This report, although a final report as far as the EC project is concerned, is really a
description of the first phase in establishing a centre of healthcare excellence. New
EC Fifth Framework project funding has already been approved to enable new and
innovative technology solutions to be added to the work already established in north
London
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