Developing the mental health workforce capacity in primary care: implementing the role of graduate primary care mental health workers in England

The scale of current demand on primary care services from people seeking help with common mental health problems places enormous pressure on the existing front line workers in general practice. The paucity of training opportunities and competing pressures to deliver improved services across a range of general practice targets remains a major challenge for primary care professionals. The impact of government policy, to improve both access to and choice of treatments, has raised public expectations. The commissioning of the graduate workforce, the graduate worker in primary care mental health(GWPCMH), commenced in 2002, in response to the publication of target numbers detailed in the Priorities and Planning Framework, (DoH, 2002). It signalled a determination to expand the workforce provision and improve the quality of care for service users with common mental health problems. This paper examines the scale of common mental health problems, the policy response and the commissioning process. Particular attention is given to examining the barriers that have been shown to affect implementation, identifying the key influencers and the resources required to train these workers

Low power FFT processor design considerations for OFDM communications

Today\u27s emerging communication technologies require fast processing as well as efficient use of resources. This project specifically addresses the power-efficient design of an FFT processor as it relates to OFDM communications such as cognitive radio. The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) processor is what enables the efficient modulation in OFDM. As the FFT processor is the most computationally intensive component in OFDM communication, the power efficiency improvement of this component can have great impacts on the overall system. These impacts are significant considering the number of mobile and remote communication devices that rely on limited battery-powered operation. This project explores current FFT processor algorithms and architectures as well as optimization techniques that aim to reduce the power consumption of these devices. A floating point as well as a fixed point dynamically size-configurable FFT processor was designed in VHDL for FPGA applications, and power-saving modifications were implemented while analyzing the results

Reduced blood brain barrier breakdown in P-selectin deficient mice following transient ischemic stroke: a future therapeutic target for treatment of stroke

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Cnidocyte discharge is regulated by light and opsin-mediated phototransduction

Cnidocyte discharge is regulated by light and opsin-mediated phototransduction Plachetzki et al. Plachetzki et al. BMC Biology 2012, 10:1