RECRUITING PATIENTS TO A DIGITAL SELF-MANAGEMENT STUDY WHILST IN HOSPITAL FOR A CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE EXACERBATION: A FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS

Background Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are often hospitalised with acute exacerbations (AECOPD) and many patients get readmitted.Intervening with hospitalised patients may be optimal timing to provide support.Our previous work demonstrated use of a digital Bowl Cleaners monitoring and self-management support tool in t

Petroleum-sector development in northern Alberta, Canada has been implicated as one factor influencing the decline of boreal woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou).Previous research showed that caribou are farther from petroleum-sector disturbances within their home range than expected.As petroleum development increases, the distance caribou

Central Park was the first American public park, pioneer in the adaptation of an European model following the style of picturesque and English gardening, the result of a group of transformations that intensified the landscape effects: over the ground there was a designed and drawn territory copying the nature and below it an efficient technologic s

The tegument surface of the adult schistosome, bounded by a normal plasma membrane overlain by a secreted membranocalyx, holds the key to understanding how schistosomes evade host immune responses.Recent advances in mass spectrometry (MS), and the sequencing of the Schistosoma mansoni transcriptome/genome, have facilitated schistosome proteomics.We

Innovation is becoming more and more participatory.Discourses insisting on the desirable involvement of users and lay citizens in innovation-making processes are burgeoning around the globe.This burgeoning is often fostered and supported by innovation scholars whose studies on, and calls for more open and participatory forms of innovation have rece