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This thesis comprises a review of studies on the diffusion of recommended guidelines on preventive practices and three papers evaluating the preventive practice patterns of general practitioners in Torino, Italy.. The first paper presents estimates of ...

Background Telecare could greatly facilitate chronic disease management in the community, but despite government promotion and positive demonstrations its implementation has been limited. This study aimed to identify factors inhibiting the implementation and integration of telecare systems for chronic disease management in the community. Methods Large scale comparative study employing qualitative data collection techniques: semi-structured interviews with key informants, task-groups, and workshops; framework analysis of qualitative data informed by Normalization Process Theory. Drawn from telecare services in community and domestic settings in England and Scotland, 221 participants were included, consisting of health professionals and managers; patients and carers; social care professionals and managers; and service suppliers and manufacturers. Results Key barriers to telecare integration were uncertainties about coherent and sustainable service and business models; lack of coordina...

Background Telecare could greatly facilitate chronic disease management in the community, but despite government promotion and positive demonstrations its implementation has been limited. This study aimed to identify factors inhibiting the implementation and integration of telecare systems for chronic disease management in the community. Methods Large scale comparative study employing qualitative data collection techniques: semi-structured interviews with key informants, task-groups, and workshops; framework analysis of qualitative data informed by Normalization Process Theory. Drawn from telecare services in community and domestic settings in England and Scotland, 221 participants were included, consisting of health professionals and managers; patients and carers; social care professionals and managers; and service suppliers and manufacturers. Results Key barriers to telecare integration were uncertainties about coherent and sustainable service and business models; lack of coordina...

The Bari test set for IVP solvers presents a collection of Initial Value Problems to test solvers for implicit dierential equations. This test set can both decrease the eort for the code developer to test his software in a reliable way, and cross the bridge between the application eld and numerical mathematics, by helping people working in several branches of scientic disciplines in choosing the code most suitable for their problems. This document contains the descriptive part of the test set. It describes the solvers used in the comparisons, the test problems and their origin, and reports on the behavior of the solvers on these problems. The latest version of this document and the software part of the test set is available via the world wide web at http://www.dm.uniba.it/~testset. The software part serves as a platform on which one can test the performance of a solver on a particular test problem oneself. Instructions how to use this software are in this paper as well. The idea to ...

In this paper, we present data structures and algorithms for efficiently constructing approximate automata. An approximate automaton for a regular language L is one which accepts at leastL. Such automata can be used in a variety of practical applications, including network security pattern matching, in which false-matches are only a performance nuisance. The construction algorithm is particularly efficient, and is tunable to yield more or less exact automata.

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