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As well as acting a guardian of family assets, trusts have increasingly become commercial device to manage portfolios financial assets. One the most dramatic transformations role that has accompanied evolution been trustee. The objective this article is examine key changes and challenges use brought trustee’s answer whether or not those suggest separation from trusts. I argue trustee in context...

AIMS This mapping study describes current or planned introduction of assistant practitioner roles in English National Health Service Acute Hospital Trusts. BACKGROUND In the last decade there has been a growth in nursing support workforce numbers and their scope of practice. An important United Kingdom support worker development is the Assistant Practitioner role. METHOD A national census w...

Local and regional private land trusts are among the most important and most numerous conservation actors in contemporary America, and conservation easements are perhaps the key land conservation tools used by these trusts. In recent decades, privately held conservation easements and local and regional private land trusts have grown at a rapid and increasing rate, and the total acreage protecte...

Trust models that rely on recommendation trusts are vulnerable to badmouthing and ballot-stuffing attacks. To cope with these attacks, existing trust models employ different trust aggregation techniques to process the recommendation trusts and combine them with the direct trust values to form a combined trust value. However, these trust models are biased as recommendation trusts that deviate to...

Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas, high levels of which are associated with geological formations such as those found in Northamptonshire and North Oxfordshire in the UK. The UK's National Radiological Protection Board have designated both districts as radon Affected Areas. Radiation levels due to radon, therefore, exceed 200 Bq m(-3), the UK's domestic Action Level, in over one pe...

OBJECTIVE To shed light on experiences of patients with cancer in London National Health Service (NHS) trusts that may not be fully captured in national survey data, to inform improvement action plans by these trusts. DESIGN Framework analysis of free-text data from 2012/2013 National Cancer Patient Experience Survey (NCPES) from the 2 London Integrated Cancer Systems. SETTING AND PARTICIPA...

OBJECTIVES To assess and compare the implementation of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) interventions recommended within the national AMS toolkits, TARGET and Start Smart Then Focus, in English primary and secondary healthcare settings in 2014, to determine the prevalence of cross-sector engagement to drive AMS interventions and to propose next steps to improve implementation of AMS. METHODS E...

In this study we investigate the performance of investment trust new issues during their first 750 days of trading. Research on the initial performance of new issues has documented that abnormal returns are obtained during the first day of trading. We compare the performance of investment trust new issues with the performance of size and style-based matching investment trusts taking the multina...