Anxiety disorders are common and debilitating in older individuals, yet anxiety is often not formally assessed in primary care. We conducted a quality improvement project to examine the feasibility of implementing a brief anxiety assessment, the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI), in a Department of Veterans Affairs geriatric primary care clinic. We compared the GAI with a depression assessment,...

Indian Rail transport is one of the major mode of transportation, so it must offer high comfort level for the passengers and the staff. However, the comfort that passengers experience is a highly complex and individual phenomenon. The improvement of passenger comfort while travelling has been the subject of intense interest for many train manufacturers, researchers and companies around the worl...

Non-destructive Structural Health Monitoring techniques can be incorporated into bridge integrity management by assessing structural conditions. This paper describes a performance assessment of steel truss railway in Bratislava using vibration-based as further part maintenance addition to standard visual inspections. To obtain the necessary data, multipurpose measuring system was used. Various ...

The results of the railway track quality assessment, obtained as part diagnostics during its operational phase, are used by construction manager to plan repair activities. aim infrastructure is maintain longest possible good condition structure, most often represented a stable geometry quality. In case low economic efficiency assurance structure through improvement diagnosed parameters, accordi...