Dialysis residential care : a future dialysis service model

People with chronic kidney disease are ageing and have increasing co-morbidities. The current delivery of renal replacement therapy, dialysis and transplantation, needs to adjust to changing patient needs. This paper proposes a potential future service delivery model featuring a dialysis residential care facility and a care coordination focus. The residential care facility would be composed of four levels of care; high, hostel, independent and outpatient. The paper argues that this model may result in decreased morbidity, improved patient quality of life and may prove cost effective. Patients\u27 nutritional status, medication adherence and transport efficiency may be improved. We propose this model to stimulate further debate in order to meet the needs of current and future chronic kidney disease patients.<br /

Problems related to the integration of fault tolerant aircraft electronic systems

Problems related to the design of the hardware for an integrated aircraft electronic system are considered. Taxonomies of concurrent systems are reviewed and a new taxonomy is proposed. An informal methodology intended to identify feasible regions of the taxonomic design space is described. Specific tools are recommended for use in the methodology. Based on the methodology, a preliminary strawman integrated fault tolerant aircraft electronic system is proposed. Next, problems related to the programming and control of inegrated aircraft electronic systems are discussed. Issues of system resource management, including the scheduling and allocation of real time periodic tasks in a multiprocessor environment, are treated in detail. The role of software design in integrated fault tolerant aircraft electronic systems is discussed. Conclusions and recommendations for further work are included

The Detection of an Extremely Bright Fast Radio Burst in a Phased Array Feed Survey

We report the detection of an ultra-bright fast radio burst (FRB) from a modest, 3.4-day pilot survey with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder. The survey was conducted in a wide-field fly's-eye configuration using the phased-array-feed technology deployed on the array to instantaneously observe an effective area of 160 deg^2, and achieve an exposure totaling 13200 deg^2 hr. We constrain the position of FRB 170107 to a region 8^'x 8^' in size (90% containment) and its fluence to be 58 ± 6 Jy ms. The spectrum of the burst shows a sharp cutoff above 1400 MHz, which could be due to either scintillation or an intrinsic feature of the burst. This confirms the existence of an ultra-bright (> 20 Jy ms) population of FRBs

Orthodoxy and the theory of fishery management : the policy and practice of fishery management theory past and present

iii, 187 leaves : maps ; 28 cm.Includes bibliographical references (leaves [150]-175).The thesis argues that the dominant theories of fishery management are rooted in an orthodox paradigm or persepctive that favours the more powerful industrial interests over the less powerful community based interests. The orthodox theories are assumed to be neutral, objective and value free, but in reality are biased, selective and opinionated. The thesis outlines the development of fishery management theory from the second half of the 19th century to the present and shows the consistency of the underlying assumptions and values which support them. The thesis reviews the liberal critique of orthodox theories made by welfare economists and maritime antropologists during the 1970s and 1980s and shows that despite these criticisms, orthodox theories continue to dominate as the most legitimate basis for managaing the fishery. The thesis compares the fishery management structures, policies and practices of Canada and United States and shows how the theory when it is translated into policy either does not solve fundamental problems (Canada) or cannot be fully imposed on fishery participants (United States). The thesis examines an alternative paradigm for understanding fishery management problems and concludes that a political economy approach offers new research and policy formulation directions that could lead to more appropriate theory and policies