Evaluation of long term experiments from a new aspect

The Evolution of Long-term Care Programs; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

The need for long-term care (LTC) represents a “new social risk,” one that overlaps with and complements systems of care that pre-date such programs, complicating LTC program design. This commentary expands on Ikegami’s discussion of how these structural factors must be accommodated, as well as historical and cultural factors that influence public expectations of such a...

Development of a new creep testing equipment to obtain long-term deformation parameters of salt rocks

Creep phenomenon in rock engineering plays a key role in development of underground spaces as they must be stable enough for a long period of time. Current research involved designing and manufacturing of a new creep testing machine. The equipment is capable to perform simultaneous light-duty creep tests on more than one cylindrical rock samples at a very low cost.To evaluate the equipment’s pe...

Financing Long-Term Care: Lessons From Japan

Long-term care (LTC) must be carefully delineated when expenditures are compared across countries because how LTC services are defined and delivered differ in each country. LTC’s objectives are to compensate for functional decline and mitigate the care burden of the family. Governments have tended to focus on the poor but Germany opted to make LTC universally available ...

Current Status of Long-term Care in Taiwan: Transition of Long-term Care Plan From 1.0 to 2.0

Biological evaluation of proteins; a new aspect.

The growth method of comparing the nutritive value of proteins, namely the estimation of protein efficiency ratio (P.E.R.) has long been popular because of its simplicity despite its well-known drawbacks (Mitchell, 1944). Among the more serious disadvantages of this method are: (a) no allowance is made for maintenance requirements of the test animal, ( 6 ) the result varies with food intake, an...