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Ein spätbronzezeitlicher Bronzehort der Kolchis-Kultur aus Kalvata in Westgeorgien

The study of bronze hoards of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages dates back to the 1930s. Currently, 214 bronze hoards are known from the territory of Georgia. The author defined this number of depositions as a result of his work in various museums of Georgia in 2018 and 2019. This work was carried out within the framework of the project of the German Research Foundation (project director Prof. Dr. Svend Hansen, German Archaeological Institute / Berlin), which aims at a detailed study of hoards of the Colchian culture in the Western and Central Caucasus. Within the framework of the project, in the summer of 2018, the author also explored the Kalvata hoard (Sachkhere Municipality, Imereti Region, Georgia) preserved in the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi (GNM, Inventory # 1-38: 1-14). The Kalvata hoard consists of three bronze Colchian axes, 6 bronze hoes, 36 bronze bars, and two small pieces of bronze, belonging to an unidentified item. This hoard was hitherto dated by 10th-8th centuries BC. A detailed study of the hoard, and the search for parallels with the items in it, in particular, the axes, hoes, and bars, revealed that the Kalvata hoard belonged to the middle of the second half of the second millennium, more precisely, the 13th – 12th centuries BC. Accordingly, the date of the Kalvata collection is at least 300 years older than it was believed before. The author is convinced that most (if not all) bronze hoards of the Colchian culture had a religious destination and were votives to various gods. The fact that the hoards were indeed a sacrifice to the gods is corroborated by many facts.

Israeli nuclear weapons, 2021

ABSTRACT The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project with the Federation of American Scientists, and Matt Korda, a senior research associate with the project. The Nuclear Notebook column has been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1987. This issue’s column examines Israel’s nuclear arsenal, which we estimate includes a stockpile of roughly 90 warheads. Israel neither officially confirms nor denies that it possesses nuclear weapons, and our estimate is therefore largely based on calculations of Israel’s stockpile of weapon-grade plutonium, its inventory of suspected nuclear-capable delivery systems, and declassified or leaked government documents.

Цифровые оперные проекты Дмитрия Отяковского

In recent years, musical theater has shown a steady increase in the use of digital technologies. Dmitry Otyakovsky, a Russian opera director and author of digital music projects, highlights three approaches to using digital technologies in opera: the digital as an expressive means; the digital as a form; the digital as a genre. This article discusses three productions by Otyakovsky based on the approaches described above. The online story The Snow Queen (music by Rustam Sagdiev, production by the Hermitage Theater) uses digital technologies as an expressive means. Here, live acting is combined with sand animation, computer-generated imagery and screenlife aesthetics. Part of the Let’s Play Opera project, The Miserly Knight with music by Sergei Rachmaninoff is an online performance. Each singer’s part is prerecorded, while the screenlife format is supplemented with a video game. The characters of the opera use social networks and video conferencing for communication. They also play an online role-playing game Sphere. Glossary 2.0 (music by Evgeny Voitenko) is a digital opera where all the musical and theatrical elements are composed with the help of digital technologies. Among them is the libretto developed by a human and a neural network, electronic music, and media installations used as scenery. Otyakovsky’s projects are brave artistic and technological experiments that pose important ethical and aesthetic issues. What happens to live communication in the world of Internet technologies? How should we judge the creativity and creative products made by a neural network? Finally, what should a modern opera be like and what is its future? Not striving for a massive transformation, Dmitry Otyakovsky, however, looks for the ways to revamp musical theater and attract new audiences.

The New Border War? An Intergenerational Exchange on Bad Trans Horror Objects

The New Border War?An Intergenerational Exchange on Bad Trans Horror Objects Dan Vena (bio) and Islay Burgess (bio) Sold in the gift shop of the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art, Chris Vargas's three-part poster series "Trans Video Store" displays a hand-drawn catalog of videocassette-styled covers of historic trans films. Mimicking staff picks at a local video store, these selections, which include controversial entries such as Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) and Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991), were chosen by Vargas through conversation with other trans individuals and represent the artist's mission to bring "a cohesive visual history of transgender culture into existence."1 Fittingly, Vargas's work is also displayed at the Transgender Media Portal office at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. When I visited the Portal's office in 2018, project director Laura Horak explained that the posters had recently been "revised" by two of her undergraduate research assistants, who placed blue stickies atop presumably transphobic titles, including the aforementioned horror films and others, including The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975), Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (Kim Henkel, 1995), and Ticked-off Trannies with Knives (Israel Luna, 2010). As a trans horror fan and scholar, I (Dan Vena) was disgruntled by this intervention, and I grumpily relayed [End Page 188] this anecdote to my Queer Cinemas class at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. I talked to the class about the need for complicated archives of trans representation, identification, and affective attachments that include supposedly bad objects such as horror films made by cis creators. Inspired by the subsequent class dialogue, this co-authored article is taken from a series of recorded exchanges over email and Zoom between myself and my former student, Islay Burgess. As a white, thirty-something millennial trans man, I turned to the misfits of horror cinema after reading Susan Stryker's "My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage" in graduate school.2 Burgess, who identifies as a white, transmasculine member of Generation Z, developed his passion for horror in childhood but did not become an ardent fan until recently. As he recalls, "It was (embarrassingly) during our Queer Cinemas class that I realized my feelings about horror cinema were academically backed. I wasn't just an enthused fan—I was a student of trans identification and affect!" Although we came of age a generation apart, we share a complicated affinity for horror, a genre that shocks through representations of morphologically unintelligible bodies often predicated on racist, ableist, and transphobic understandings of the human. Other trans scholars have made clear, however, that the troubling vilification of gender-bending or gender nonconforming others on-screen that lends horror its status as a "bad object" can also provide a sense of catharsis and validation for some trans viewers.3 As Burgess pointed out to me, these expressions of desire are often articulated on social media, where one Twitter user recently anticipated the future of trans identification with monstrosity: "Really looking forward to how LGBT cinema can continue to express monster metaphors [while being] completely open about identity and self-love."4 I was motivated to record this dialogue between Burgess and myself because of the initial discomfort I felt toward the Transgender Media Portal's research assistants censoring important horror films from Vargas's depiction of trans cinema history. I was angry, and more than that, I was afraid at the ease at which they, as members of a younger generation, disregarded texts that were meaningful to other (older) trans individuals. As a result, I expected the generational attitudes between Burgess and myself to be [End Page 189] similarly conflicted. Yet, through compassionate listening and mutual introspection, we began resolving previously differing perspectives and working toward a more "cohesive" approach to trans film and media history, to borrow from Vargas. For the sake of clarity, we have preserved the dialogic form of our interactions, edited for length. Dan Vena: Okay, Islay. Let's start with the assumptions we each hold about one another's generations. From my "OK Millennial" vantage point, I worry that younger trans community members (like Gen Zers...

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL DIABETES EDUCATION PROGRAM TO IMPROVE DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT IN HISPANIC PATIENTS

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a global, costly, and increasing illness. Type 2 diabetes (DM2) can be managed with lifestyle changes, such as better diet choices. In the United States, Hispanic individuals are at high risk for DM2 and have the third highest prevalence of DM2 among all ethnicities. Polk County, Florida, has a statistically higher prevalence of DM2 residents than other Florida counties. Almost one-quarter of the population are Hispanic, and many live below the poverty line, are uninsured, and are illegal immigrants. At Parkview Medical Clinic, a free clinic in Polk County, 80% of the patients have DM2. The goal of this project was to help these patients improve their dietary habits and blood glucose levels with the NDEP Program, 4 Steps to Manage Your Diabetes for Life. The theoretical framework was Orem’s self-care theory, and the Plan-Do-Check-Act change model was used. After training by the project director, 10 volunteer nurse practitioners (NPs) individually instructed 37 patients weekly for 20 to 30 minutes over 9 weeks. In Weeks 1 and 9, the NPs administered the Diabetes Self-Management Questionnaire (DSMQ) and measured patients’ blood glucose levels. The results were charted, and data were analyzed with paired samples t tests. Results indicated that patients improved significantly in their diet choices and blood glucose levels (p < .001) from pretest (37 participants) to posttest (19 participants). Follow-ups at 3- and 6 months were recommended, and implications for nursing included greater use of the NDEP Program and ongoing patient education on self-management of diabetes.

Metropolitan Opera Archives; Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century; Re-envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th-Century Visual and Material Culture

Review| December 01 2021 Metropolitan Opera Archives; Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century; Re-envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th-Century Visual and Material Culture Metropolitan Opera Archives. URL: https://www.metopera.org/discover/archives/Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century. Iowa Digital Library, University of Iowa Libraries. URL: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/tc/Re-envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th-Century Visual and Material Culture. JoanneBernardi, Project Director. University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries. URL: https://rej.lib.rochester.edu/ C. A. Norling and Marian Wilson Kimber C. A. Norling and Marian Wilson Kimber C. A. NORLING is a PhD candidate in Musicology at the University of Iowa, where he studies topics related to opera production and reception in the United States. He is currently undertaking dissertation research regarding the civic density of operatic cultures in 1920s Chicago. His work can be found in Opera Journal and a forthcoming volume from Kent State University Press. He was the 2016 recipient of the National Opera Association’s Scholarly Paper Award. MARIAN WILSON KIMBER is Professor of Musicology at the University of Iowa. She is the author of numerous publications on Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel, and women in music. Her book The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word (University of Illinois Press, 2017) was the recipient of the Society for American Music’s H. Earle Johnson Subvention. Her current research focuses on the roles of women activists and women’s organizations in American music. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2021) 74 (3): 689–701. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.3.689 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation C. A. Norling and Marian Wilson Kimber; Metropolitan Opera Archives; Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century; Re-envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th-Century Visual and Material Culture. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 December 2021; 74 (3): 689–701. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.3.689 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search The ever-growing body of topical research websites ranges from seemingly passive repositories of singular items with varying degrees of description to carefully curated sites that are in themselves acts of digital scholarship. The three sites considered in this review contain digitized artifacts that date primarily from the late nineteenth century through the present, though their contents are more significant for historical understandings of American musical life during the first half of the twentieth century. At the same time, all three collections transcend perceived boundaries, either through their transnational nature or the wide variety of their materials, or because the historical activities associated with their content have fallen between disciplinary fields. While the Metropolitan Opera Archives website highlights the history of a well-known cultural institution and is thus the most predictable in the kinds of comprehensive information it provides, Traveling Culture and Re-envisioning Japan, whose usefulness for music scholars is perhaps... You do not currently have access to this content.

SINCLAIR HOOD (1917–2021)

Sinclair Hood (1917–2021) was one of the two leading archaeologists of Minoan Crete of the second generation after Sir Arthur Evans, the other being Nikolaos Platon (1909–92). He spent much of his life researching the history of Knossos, including a major programme of excavations during his Directorship of the British School at Athens (1954–62) to test Evans’ chronological system for Knossos and Crete in the Bronze Age. He also directed excavations at prehistoric Emporio in Chios, and was versed in the archaeology of Central Europe and the Near East, as well as every aspect of Aegean prehistory, on which he wrote profusely. In Greece he revolutionised methods for British archaeologists and trained many students who later became project directors. His monumental studyThe Masons’ Marks of Minoan Knossoscrowned his career. It was published in 2020, when he was 103.

Chinese nuclear weapons, 2021

ABSTRACT The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project with the Federation of American Scientists, and Matt Korda, a senior research associate with the project. The Nuclear Notebook column has been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1987. This issue’s column examines China’s nuclear arsenal, which we conclude has recently surpassed France’s as the world’s third largest. We estimate that China’s stockpile now includes roughly 350 operational warheads with more in production. The stockpile is expected to increase significantly in the next decade but remains significantly smaller than that of Russia or the United States.

Implementation of the Meningitis Vaccine Project in Africa: lessons for vaccine implementation programs

Background The Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) was an international partnership that began in 2010 and focused on the development, testing, licensure, and widespread introduction of a conjugate vaccine with the promise of protecting millions of lives from group A meningococcal meningitis. To bridge gaps upstream of vaccine administration and in understanding the project’s planning, delivery and outcomes, the primary objective of this study was to delineate the barriers to and facilitators of sustainable implementation in an upstream context of the delivery of the MenAfriVac vaccine and to draw critical lessons for other vaccination programs. Methods We conducted a qualitative study with key project partners and leaders who worked on the MVP project. The interviewees were initially identified through a literature review and a search of publications and evaluations of the project. Eighteen key stakeholders were interviewed. The interviewees included individuals in the roles of implementation oversight, champion, partner, funder, and frontline implementer. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) informed the identification of a priori codes for the directed content analysis. Results There were multiple barriers and facilitators to implementing the vaccine under all five domains of the CFIR framework, including intervention characteristics, outer setting, inner setting, characteristics of individuals, and process. The most common domains mentioned by stakeholders that facilitated the success of the MVP were inner setting and process; specifically, three constructs were most representative—Tension for Change, Formally Appointed Implementation Leaders, and External Change Agents. Conclusions The tension for change—that is, the degree to which stakeholders perceive the current situation as intolerable or needing change— advocated by African leaders served as a crucial foundation for solid leadership for the MPV. The leadership came in the form of the project director and other formally appointed leaders, who could plan, engage and execute the project’s goals effectively. This leadership translated into consistent messaging, information sharing, and multiple levels of engagement with external change agents (including technical experts), which promoted a shared sense of readiness contributing to significant change investments in implementing MVP.

Review: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, by Tiya Miles

Review: <i>All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake</i>, by Tiya Miles

Evaluation of Southwood Education Project for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children in Lutheran Church Northern Diocese Secondary Schools in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

The study was formative evaluation of Southwood education project for orphaned and vulnerable children in Northern Diocese secondary schools in Kilimanjaro Region Tanzania. The study was guided by five evaluation questions in assessing the efficiency, effectiveness and utilization of resources in relation to the objectives of supporting orphaned and vulnerable children to acquire moral education. The study used mixed methods approach under convergent design in data collection, analysis and presentation. The study employed probability and non-probability sampling technique. The target population composed Project Director. Project Administrators, Heads Schools, Teachers and students who are orphaned and vulnerable children supported by the project. Data were gathered through interview guide, and questionnaire. Quantitative data was analyzed in form of frequency, percentages and presented tables with the help of statistical Package for social sciences (SPSS) version 22. Qualitative data analysis was done through direct quotations from respondents. Major findings from the study were that: the project has succeeded the OVCs were provided with moral education training through different aspects on moral education, provision of Health care, guidance and counseling. Evaluation findings concluded that, the objectives of the project were achieved since there were provisions for training seminars for moral education content. Recommendations, in order to enhance moral content in the society the government should proceed supporting Non-Governmental Organizations on provision of education to the orphaned and vulnerable students, because when orphans and vulnerable children are not handled enough it may cause some of them to engage in drug abuse, prostitution and early marriage, the only way to help them is through providing education and protecting them especially adding number of them in boarding schools.

Key considerations and risk management best practice for placenta-derived cell therapy raw materials

Ruth Goldberg joined Pluristem in 2009 and currently serves as Compliance and Methods Validation Manager. Ruth has over 14 years of experience in the biotech industry in several leadership positions. She is skilled in Biotechnology, Life Sciences, Quality Assurance, Quality System, CMC, and Pharmaceutical Industry; a strong education professional with PhD in Cell Biology and Immunology, Technion.Lior Raviv joined Pluristem in 2011 and currently serves as Vice President of Operations &amp; Development. Prior to that Mr Raviv served as Process development engineer and Projects manager and Product development Team leader at Pluristem. Prior to joining Pluristem and during the years 2010–2011, Mr Raviv held the position of R&amp;D Analytical Researcher at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. Mr. Raviv holds a M.Med.Sec in pharmacology from the Ben Gurion University and a BSc, in Biotechnology engineering from the Ben Gurion University.

New Options to Simplify the Treatment of Severe Hypoglycemia in Long-Term Care

New Options to Simplify the Treatment of Severe Hypoglycemia in Long-Term Care

EVALUASI PENERAPAN SMK3L PADA PROYEK RUMAH SAKIT DI KOTA MALANG

HSE in the construction world is very important but is still often ignored as evidenced by the high number of work accidents such as what happened in the hospital project. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the SMK3 under Government Regulation Number 50 of 2012, which is divided into several points: 1) work safety, 2) monitoring standard, 3) material management and displacement and 4) commitment maintenance. The method used is by distributing questionnaires with a likert scale assessment. The distribution of the questionnaires took place at the office of the director of the hospital project by complying with the Health protocol. The results of the questionnaire were processed through data tabulation and then tested for validity and reliability using SPSS 24 which resulted in all variables and statement items being valid and reliable. After that, to determine the percentage of the level of application of SMK3, it is processed using the scoring method. The results of this study are the percentage of SMK3 implementation levels as follows: a) work safety – 77.7%, b) monitoring standards – 81.3%, c) material management – 70.7% and d) commitment maintenance – 82.4 % with a mean of 78%. Thus, the level of implementation of SMK3 in the hospital project is running quite well and effectively.

Investigating the nexus between critical success factors, despotic leadership, and success of renewable energy projects.

The aim of this study to examine how critical success factors (CSFs) affect the project success (PS), directly and indirectly, using the despotic leadership (DL) as a mediating variable. Critical success factors with multiple dimensions, such as organizational factors, team factors, technical factors, and communication factors, were used in this study. In this study, we used a questionnaire survey approach. The data were collected from the project directors, project managers, functional managers, and team leaders working in the renewable energy project of Pakistan. For data analysis, we used the partial least squares structural equation modeling through SmartPLS 3.2. The outcomes indicate that team factors and communication factors have a positive and significant relationship with PS in the direct relationship. At the same time, organization factors and technical factors were insignificant in the direct relationship with PS. Moreover, to examine the mediating effects of despotic leadership, we have examined the indirect effects of critical success factors on PS. The findings of this study indicate that DL is not mediated between organizational factors and PS in the indirect relationship. However, DL negatively mediates between three factors (team, technical, and communication) of critical success factors on project success. This paper concludes that despotic leaders go beyond controlling and self-serving behaviour and are engaged in exploitative and unethical acts that can drain project resources, which reduce the success and sustainability of renewable energy projects.

Pakistani nuclear weapons, 2021

ABSTRACT The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project with the Federation of American Scientists, and Matt Korda, a research associate with the project. The Nuclear Notebook column has been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1987. This issue’s column examines Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, which may include approximately 165 warheads. The authors estimate that the country’s stockpile could realistically grow to around 200 by 2025, if the current trend continues. To see all previous Nuclear Notebook columns, visit https://thebulletin.org/nuclear-risk/nuclear-weapons/nuclear-notebook/.

Is the paradox of project control alive and well in mega infrastructure projects?

In the project context, the paradox of control has been associated with traditional, reductionist approaches to the management of projects where complexity and uncertainty are addressed by imposing more controls expecting more predictable outcomes when in reality this usually leads to more uncertainty and unpredictability. Complexity is a defining feature of mega infrastructure projects. Over the last decade, a number of research studies have advocated an approach to megaproject management, grounded in complexity theory, that suggests a move away from control focused reductionist methodologies toward the application of self-management, changing the level of control through delegation and empowerment. This paper reports on a study conducted from the perspective of the construction contractor project directors of 24 of the 25 mega infrastructure projects awarded in Australia from 1995 to 2018. It explores their approach to mega project management with the aim of identifying the extent to which they respond to complexity by encouraging self-management or by relying upon reductionist control based approaches. Evidence suggests that while some directors of mega infrastructure projects have encouraged self-management through empowerment and delegation, others have not, and the paradox of project control is alive and well in the delivery of mega infrastructure projects.

Moderating Effect of Senior Management Support on the Relationship Between Schedule Delay Factors and Project Performance

Schedule delays in construction projects are often a major concern and considered as a global phenomenon in the construction industry. In regards to project delivery, lack of senior management support is one of the main issues that impact project outcomes. This empirical research study aims to investigate the moderating effect of senior management support on the relationship between schedule delay factors and project performance. A questionnaire survey method was adopted to collect data from project directors, project managers, civil and construction engineers, project supervisors, and experts from small, medium, and large construction companies from major cities in Pakistan. A response rate of 84% was obtained based on 310 valid responses from a sample of 368 potential participants that received the survey. The cross-sectional data were used to test direct relationships and moderating effects through regression analysis and “process” method, respectively. The findings indicate that schedule delays in construction projects occur due to lack of commitment, insufficient site management, poor site coordination, lack of clarity in project scope, lack of communication and substandard contracts, in addition to major delays owing to improper planning. Moreover, the relationship between schedule delay factors and project performance is moderated by all dimensions of senior management support, i.e. providing resources, structural arrangements, communication, expertise, and power.

Personnel management within the conditions of new social-economic reality

The purpose of the academic paper is to study the new personnel management system within the conditions of external shocks (pandemic). The methodology is based on quantitative and qualitative methodology using in-depth interview methods with the HR Project Director for Cement JSC “Podilsky Cement”, content analysis of the company’s website, statistical analysis of financial statements in order to determine the effectiveness of personnel management programs. The results prove that within the conditions of new social-economic reality through external shocks (pandemic) a new system of personnel management is formed, which through technology transforms the threats of management (hiring, employment) into opportunities for development and training, mentoring, internships by reducing staff turnover. Thus, the positive effect emerges of replacing the negative consequences of the virus spreading with the potential for human resources’ development through effective virtual communication. External shocks cause a change in the social variables of the organization through the transformation of values, motivation, efficiency of employees. Within the pandemic conditions, the value of the collective atmosphere for employees increases, which will have a medium-term effect in the form of increased financial performance of organizations. The practical significance of the results lies in the possibility of using the results in human resource management, namely the integration of technology into personnel management in order to establish virtual communications.

Factors Influencing Optimal Hospital Design: A Comparative Study between Thai and Norwegian Public Hospitals

This paper aims to determine the factors that influence the design process for public hospitals. The paper intends to provide knowledge regarding the hospital planning and design process from the perspective of policy makers, facilities managers, hospital planners and hospital designers. This study is a qualitative study, where twelve participants from Thai and Norwegian hospitals were interviewed. Respondents included hospital project directors (n=3), hospital planners/designers (n= 5), and facilities managers (n= 4). Interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic and content analysis. Four main themes were identified from the analysis: (1) organization of the healthcare system (2) hospital management system (3) work systems in the healthcare organization (4) hospital design process. Comparisons of results were made between Thailand (a developing country that strives to provide sufficient healthcare services) and Norway (a developed Nordic country that provides efficient public healthcare services). The main finding of this study indicates the critical importance of user involvement in the hospital design process in both countries. The involvement of different stakeholders in each stage of the design process is the key to successful design outcome. Other issues and recommendations for designers are further discussed.