PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To test an adapted end-of-life conceptual model of the geriatric cancer experience and provide evidence for the validity and reliability of the model for use in practice and research. DESIGN Nonexperimental and cross-sectional using baseline data collected within 24-72 hours of admission to hospice. SETTING Two hospices in the southeastern United States. SAMPLE 403 hosp...

This paper discusses how to make a distributed object system exible so as to satisfy the application's requirement in the change of the system environment. Each object supports other objects with quality of service (QoS). The change of the system is modeled to be the change of not only types of service but also QoS supported by the objects. We discuss equivalency and compatibility relations amo...

management of the forest resources and related activities has significant effects on the environment. applying the environmental impact assessment (eia) provides a basis for improving forest management plans. however, in the developing countries such as iran, there have been so far no serious endeavors and research to undertake the eia of the various practices affecting the forest resources, de...

he aim of educational assessment is promoting the quality of educationand efficiency in the educational system (1). in every educational system,keeping quality requires awareness of the strengths and weaknesses andmeasurement of the objectives (2).the internal assessment is carried out as an introduction to performexternal assessment in order to do budgeting and ranking of universities.therefor...

quality of life of inbaharan training, medical, and psychiatric research center staff in zahedan     jenaabadi h [1] , nastiezaie n [2] *     received: 23july, 2011 accepted: 2october, 2011     abstract   background & aims : today, attention to quality of life is one of the interesting categories among international community. thus, researchers seek to measure the impact of mental and physical ...

Physicochemical properties of 10 rice advanced breeding lines (BC2F7) across 3 environments in Malaysia were evaluated. Highly significant G × E interactions for all measured quality traits were detected using ANOVA, and the additive main effect and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) statistical model was applied to analyze them. The results showed that the grain quality parameters had large gen...

extended abstract 1. introduction human life is highly dependent on the environment and the services that are provided by the environment. environmental quality is a set of properties and characteristics of the environment, either generalized or local, as they may also impinge on human beings and other organisms. it is a measure of the condition of an environment relative to the requirements of...