WWPPWorld Wide Pursuing Perfection in Health CareMarc's Weblog- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Notes from Marc Pierson before you read this proposal by David Bohm and others: This is proposal is kind of long and kind of technical and abstract. You may not like it or finish it. You may want to read at least the last section on dialogue in existing organizations. Dialogue itself is simple (if you join a group with some experience), immediately rewarding, and profoundly eye opening. You can read about it andor just do it. In either case if you want to join our dialogue group in Whatcom...http://www.wwpp.org/users/0000002/outlines/DialogueAProposal.html Heart Pump Saves Lives, and Raises Questions- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Heart Pump Saves Lives, and Raises Questions. The F.D.A. is considering a heart pump for people too old or sick for a transplant. But who should get the $60,000 pumps Who should pay for them By Sheryl Gay Stolberg. New York Times: Healthhttp://www.wwpp.org/2002/07/02.html#a29 WWPP themes versions 1.0.3- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Themes, one more time. There are new themes for both versions of our WWPP sites. Click on the title and go to the instructions page. At the bottom of the instructions page is a part of our instructions outline meant to help you upgrade your theme. That area has links for the new parts and instructions on how to protect and reinstall your personal ownerPicture.jpghttp://www.wwpp.org/outlines/Installation.html You Snooze You Win, Learning Study Reveals- (Found July 8, 2008 ) You Snooze You Win, Learning Study Reveals Scientific American You Snooze You Win, Learning Study Reveals Work-aholics take note: new research indicates that morning sleep and afternoon naps aid mental and physical learning. Scientists have known for some time that sleep can improve the brainbase 's acquisition of new facts and skills, but its effect on previously learned knowledge was not known. To that end, two studies published this month in the journals Neuron and Nature Neuroscience...http://www.wwpp.org/2002/07/03.html#a31 (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Infectious Disease Expert Will Lead National Health Agency. Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, an infectious disease expert noted for her work against AIDS and anthrax, will be the next director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By Warren E. Leary. New York Times: Healthhttp://www.wwpp.org/2002/07/03.html#a32 (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Sharing the research we all paid for. The Chronicle of Higher Education: 'Superarchives' Could Hold All Scholarly Output. Several colleges are now looking to share more of that work by building "institutional repositories" online and inviting their professors to upload copies of their research papers, data sets, and other work. The idea is to gather as much of the intellectual output of an institution as possible in an easy-to-search online collection. Tomalak's Realm &187; Interesting...http://www.wwpp.org/2002/07/03.html#a33 Tracking an Outbreak Minute by Minute- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Tracking an Outbreak Minute by Minute By CATHERINE GREENMAN COMPUTER networks have been used for years by public health officials to monitor outbreaks of disease. Typically, the networks compile a database of reports about sick patients from doctors or other health care workers and look for patterns of illness or symptoms. But the reporting and compiling can take a day or more, delaying detection of an outbreak.http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/04/technology/circuits/04SICK.html?ex=1026446400&en=466... Lori asked a question about the WWPP weblogs in the navigation area.- (Found July 8, 2008 ) There is a single outline that I update, or whoever has control of the outline. When I update it nothing really changes on any other site until the other wwpp sites publish. When the other sites publish, their copy of Radio looks on the web for the outline, if the outline is changed, you get a new set of wwpp weblogs. It works the same for the "Common links". ... That way there is one source for links we should all have in common. They should not change often, but it much easier to change them..http://www.wwpp.org/2002/07/05.html#a38 Troubleshooting Marc's XMLRSS feed- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Marc seems to be having some difficulty reading RSS feeds from our community. One of the first things to check, if you suspect a problem with your RSS feeds, is to unsubscribe from a feed you suspect as not working, then resubscribe to the same feed. That will force your copy of radio to reread the source feed. That worked to fix Marc's feed problem.http://www.wwpp.org/2002/07/09.html#a43 Stories Verses Postings- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Here is my take on stories verses posts. ... edited from definitions found at http:www.dictionary.com From these choices. ... Our posts can be seen as points of reference like fence posts on a fence. The posts define which way the fence is aligned, our posts define waypoints in our strings of thoughts. They can also be thought of as notes on a bulletin board giving a heads up piece of information that we should all know. A post can point to very few stories, usually a post points to only one..http://www.wwpp.org/2002/07/09.html#a44 |