Using the behavior change wheel to identify barriers to and potential solutions for primary care clinical guideline use in four provinces in South Africa

Abstract Background Clinical practice guidelines risk having little impact on healthcare if not effectively implemented.Theory informed, targeted implementation may maximise their impact.Our study explored barriers to and facilitators of guideline implementation and use by South African primary care nurses and allied healthcare workers in four prov

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Comparative study on the usage of an online plagiarism detection service when presenting distance learning courses

The Internet opens a library of wealth to the student and educator but it also makes it easy for students to copy when writing assignments.In this paper, we will look at how Wawasan Open University implemented plagiarism-detection software in its course delivery.In 2010, the university Good Night introduced the compulsory usage of an online plagiar

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Landau discriminants

Abstract Scattering amplitudes in quantum field theories have intricate analytic properties as functions of the energies and momenta of the scattered particles.In perturbation theory, their singularities are governed by a set of nonlinear polynomial equations, known as Landau equations, for each individual Feynman diagram.The singularity locus of t

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