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Using change management theory to implement the international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF) in clinical practice
Practice Evaluation
The success of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and
Health (ICF) depends on its implementation in practice. This article describes
an evaluation of the introduction of the ICF framework into an occupational
therapy service. Reflections from the working party responsible for its
introduction were related to change management theory. The experiences
throughout the implementation project could be mapped to an eight-stage
process of creating major change (Kotter 1996). The working party concluded
that the explicit use of and closer adherence to change management theory
could enhance the uptake of the ICF in clinical practice. Further exploratory
research is required to support these reflections
On the almost sure running maxima of solutions of affine stochastic functional differential equations
This paper studies the large fluctuations of solutions of scalar and finite-dimensional affine stochastic functional differential equations with finite memory as well as related nonlinear equations. We find conditions under which the exact almost sure growth rate of the running maximum of each component of the system can be determined, both for affine and nonlinear equations. The proofs exploit the fact that an exponentially decaying fundamental solution of the underlying deterministic equation is sufficient to ensure that the solution of the affine equation converges to a stationary Gaussian process
The size of the largest fluctuations in a market model with Markovian switching
This paper considers the size of the large fluctuations of a stochastic differential equation with Markovian switching. We concentrate on processes which obey the Law of the Iterated Logarithm, or obey upper and lower iterated logarithm growth bounds on their almost sure partial maxima. The results are applied to financial market models which are subject to random regime shifts. We prove that the security exhibits the same long-run growth properties and deviations from the trend rate of growth as conventional geometric Brownian motion, and also that the returns, which are non-Gaussian, still exhibit the same growth rate in their almost sure large deviations as stationary continuous-time Gaussian processes
Symmetry of Anomalous Dimension Matrices for Colour Evolution of Hard Scattering Processes
In a recent paper, Dokshitzer and Marchesini rederived the anomalous
dimension matrix for colour evolution of scattering, first derived
by Kidonakis, Oderda and Sterman. They noted a weird symmetry that it possesses
under interchange of internal (colour group) and external (scattering angle)
degrees of freedom and speculated that this may be related to an embedding into
a context that correlates internal and external variables such as string
theory.
In this short note, I point out another symmetry possessed by all the colour
evolution anomalous dimension matrices calculated to date. It is more prosaic,
but equally unexpected, and may also point to the fact that colour evolution
might be understood in some deeper theoretical framework. To my knowledge it
has not been pointed out elsewhere, or anticipated by any of the authors
calculating these matrices. It is simply that, in a suitably chosen colour
basis, they are complex symmetric matrices.Comment: 3 page
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Spectra of phase point operators in odd prime dimensions and the extended Clifford group
We analyse the role of the Extended Clifford group in classifying the spectra
of phase point operators within the framework laid out by Gibbons et al for
setting up Wigner distributions on discrete phase spaces based on finite
fields. To do so we regard the set of all the discrete phase spaces as a
symplectic vector space over the finite field. Auxiliary results include a
derivation of the conjugacy classes of .Comment: Latex, 19page
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