This article represents the efforts of an interdisciplinary work group, the Dementia Measures Work Group (DWG), composed of representatives of diverse national organizations who convened specifically to define optimal standards of dementia care for individual practitioners as well as multidisciplinary teams. The DWG measurement set includes all stages of dementia in a single measure set, calls ...

BACKGROUND Population ageing, the emergence of chronic illness, and the shift away from institutional care challenge conventional approaches to assessment systems which traditionally are problem and setting specific. METHODS From 2002, the interRAI research collaborative undertook development of a suite of assessment tools to support assessment and care planning of persons with chronic illnes...

This paper discusses and characterizes actions undertaken for the development of electromobility as part incentive policy pursued by state. In most European countries, electric vehicle market is largely contingent on policies, but measures adopted with a view to supporting it do not always yield expected results. Effectiveness depends cooperation entities which are responsible social-economic c...

Urbanization and the economic, social environmental development of city in Algeria are based on urban planning instruments. These instruments, once approved by different deconcentrated directions state as well associations, become opposable to third parties move directly their implementation ground. To ensure habitability spaces, these whether approved, process being or not yet launched, must h...

Introduction Skeletal deformity correction is a procedure of high aesthetic and functional demand. Therefore, meticulous surgical planning has always been mandatory. However, it is known that during the surgery things may often get slippery, leaving the surgeon no chance but improvisation. Because of this shortcoming it is not a rare occasion to find unhappy patients that have undergone deformi...

This paper presents a miniature wrist that can be integrated into needle-sized surgical instruments. The wrist consists of a nitinol tube with asymmetric cutouts that is actuated by a single tendon to provide high distal curvature. We derive and experimentally validate kinematic and static models for the wrist and describe several prototype wrists, illustrating the straightforward fabrication a...

BACKGROUND In stereotactic operations, intraoperative imaging is crucial in several stages of the procedure. The aim was to utilize the O-arm intraoperatively for (1) planning the trajectories of stereotactic instruments, (2) calculating the coordinates of the targets, (3) identification of normal intracranial structures, (4) verification of the trajectories of the stereotactic instruments, and...