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 samhälle blir vi allt mer beroende av internet. Myndigheter försöker med hjälp av e-delegationen införa e-förvaltning. E-deltagande är en del av e-förvaltningen som innebär att medborgare får chans att lämna sina synpunkter elektroniskt via någon form av verktyg på internet. Tidigare studier visar på att det oftast är en medelålders, föreningsaktiv och välutbildad man som deltar i planeringfrågorna. Unga, lågutbildade och kvinnor deltar däremot mindre frekvent vid rådande deltagarmöjligheter. Denna kandidatuppsats har därför fått frågeställningarna: Hur påverkas medborgarnas delaktighet i planeringsprocessen av e-deltagande? Samt: Vilka möjligheter och hinder skapar e-deltagande när det gäller inflytande i planeringsfrågor? Studien grundar sig på tidigare skriven litteratur samt en fallstudie av två fall i Nacka kommun: Henriksdal och Fisksätra. Tjänstemän på Nacka kommun har intervjuats för att syftet med projektet ska klargöras samt att få en inblick i hur dialogformer fungerar i en expansiv kommun. Resultatet visade på ett ökat intresse för planeringsfrågor i de två fallen samt att det finns möjligheter för inflytande genom dialogen då den publiceras på hemsidan tillgänglig för allmänheten. Kommunen måste dock inte följa de konkreta förslag som inkommit utan måste göra avvägningar mellan allmänna och enskilda intressen. Slutsatsen grundar sig i att inflytande i planeringen är bra, men att det kan vara ett sken av inflytande i den kommunala planeringen eftersom frågorna som ställs till medborgare inte går ut på om något 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