Manufacturing anomalies introduced during machining of critical parts, although rare in occurrence, have become a significant cause of gas turbine disk cracking events in the aero-engine. These non-geometric anomaly types are usually different to those commonly targeted by current production NDI efforts. A European Union funded programme 'MANHIRP' has been set up to address this issue by introd...

BACKGROUND Conversations about end-of-life care remain challenging for health care providers. The tendency to delay conversations about care options represents a barrier that impedes the ability of terminally-ill patients to participate in decision-making. Family physicians with a palliative care practice are often responsible for discussing end-of-life care preferences with patients, yet there...

BACKGROUND Community-dwelling consumers of healthcare are increasing, many aging with life-limiting conditions and deteriorating cognition. However, few have had advance care planning discussions or completed documentation to ensure future care preferences are acted upon. This study examines the awareness, attitudes, and experiences of advance care planning amongst older people and unrelated of...

Those who forget the past are not always fated to repeat it––sometimes the consequences are even worse. The problem of ephedra in the year 2003 arose largely because we have forgotten some excellent pharmacological research of eighty years ago. The sudden death of Steve Bechler, a promising young pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles, during spring training in February 2003, was attributed to his u...

During the Futures Program in 2021, I learned a lot about how to manage long-term care patients, which included weighing risks and potential rewards of aspirin our older patient population, minimizing polypharmacy, broaching palliative as an ongoing discussion over several visits. But what struck me most during this conference was unique my experience nurse practitioner compared with that other...

task of planning these events on our own, because we thought that asking faculty members for help wasn’t likely to pay off. We expected resistance from those who think that nonacademic careers aren’t worthwhile pursuits, and some committee members even worried that approaching faculty members could have negative personal repercussions. We had heard that when professors learned that their studen...

Research assistants are frequently excluded from authorship for several reasons—including the perception that they merely provide paid administrative help. Authorship criteria should be based on people who both shapers and doers rather than ICMJE recommendations which can differently interpreted. The pressure single-authored papers in some disciplines may lead to exclusion of substantive contri...

Migration crisis, climate change or tax havens: Global challenges need global solutions. But agreeing on a joint approach is difficult without a common ground for discussion. Public spheres are highly segmented because news are mainly produced and received on a national level. Gaining a global view on international debates about important issues is hindered by the enormous quantity of news and ...