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An integrated framework to classify healthcare virtual communities
Healthcare (HC) strives to improve service quality through its cost-effective social computing strategy. However, sudden rise in the count of virtual community of practices (VCoPs) introduced many choices for physicians; As a result, it is not surprising to observe current literature reporting lack of study to investigate ideas integration within and between VCoPs. VCoPs need to be categorized for HC physicians so they will be able to pin-point effective a VC to attain assistance from. This paper is one of the first investigative studies, in HC sector, that proposed a framework to classify and pin-point appropriate VCoPs, for physicians, after it reviewed and analyzed traditional and up-to-date theoretical, empirical and case study literature in the area of social computing, knowledge management (KM) and VCoPs. The implementation of this framework pinpointed professional VCoPs as most appropriate for physicians based on strict requirements, i.e. closed physician communities holding many participants, which are older than 5 years with high boundary crossing. This framework is also a âone-size-fit-allâ formula to build an organizational VCoP, utilizable by other business sectors
Numerical calculation of second order perturbations
We numerically solve the Klein-Gordon equation at second order in
cosmological perturbation theory in closed form for a single scalar field,
describing the method employed in detail. We use the slow-roll version of the
second order source term and argue that our method is extendable to the full
equation. We consider two standard single field models and find that the
results agree with previous calculations using analytic methods, where
comparison is possible. Our procedure allows the evolution of second order
perturbations in general and the calculation of the non-linearity parameter
f_NL to be examined in cases where there is no analytical solution available.Comment: 18 pages, 12 figures; v2 version published by JCA
The universality theorem for neighborly polytopes
In this note, we prove that every open primary basic semialgebraic set is
stably equivalent to the realization space of an even-dimensional neighborly
polytope. This in particular provides the final step for Mn\"ev's proof of the
universality theorem for simplicial polytopes.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure. Small change
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