The Administration on Aging (AoA) of the Administration for Community Living (ACL) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing this final rule in order to implement provisions of the Older Americans Act (the Act) regarding States' Long-Term Care Ombudsman programs (Ombudsman programs). Since its creation in the 1970s, the functions of the Nursing Home Ombudsman program (...

A simple method for solving Prandtl's integro-differential equation is proposed based on a new reproducing kernel space. Using a transformation and modifying the traditional reproducing kernel method, the singular term is removed and the analytical representation of the exact solution is obtained in the form of series in the new reproducing kernel space. Compared with known investigations, its ...

One of the most challenging problems that the engineering educators face today, is how to prepare the future engineer for a ever-growing High Tech, Information Based market, where the development of new technological applications is a basic need. The solution adopted at Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial is to make partnerships with leading companies and industries, which enable students to wor...

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The score of the piano work nr. 7 Klavierstu ck XI by Karlheinz Stockhausen (1957) [4] consists of 19 fragments of music. The performer is instructed to choose at random one of these fragments, and play it; then choose another, different, fragment and play that, and so on. If a fragment is chosen that has already been played twice, the performance ends. It is natural to ask how many different w...