BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to better understand the experiences of family members in the nursing home to hospital transfer decision making process. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 family members who had recently been involved in a nursing home to hospital transfer decision. RESULTS Family members perceived themselves to play an advocacy role in their resident...

Building fire puts great threat on people’s lives and causes huge numbers of fatalities each year. In 2007, total fire death in the United States alone was 3,430. The number of fatalities is distributed among residential 75.5%, non-residential 3.6%, vehicle 16.7%, outside 1.6%, and other 2.6%. Although much research has been done on building fire simulation to support designing safer buildings,...

The Ecosystem Approach and sustainable use represent two approaches, at two different scales, to the management of living natural resources and biodiversity conservation. Both approaches have been endorsed by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which has provided an important institutional context for their development and elaboration. Each approach establishes a certai...

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are widely used to model low-level neural activities and high-level cognitive functions. In this article, we review the applications of statistical inference for learning in ANNs. Statistical inference provides an objective way to derive learning algorithms both for training and for evaluation of the performance of trained ANNs. Solutions to the over-fitting pr...

The research project on which this paper is based is investigating the reasons that some English local authorities engaged in pilot projects of e-voting and some did not. This paper offers a brief summary of the initial findings of the literature review as it identifies factors, which impact upon the decision-making process of English local authorities. The factors identified include the local ...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the occupations of mothering very young children with physical disabilities. METHOD Two single, urban, Black mothers in their mid-20s were interviewed with a semistructured protocol. The audiotaped, transcribed data were analyzed with a phenomenological method. RESULTS The context of the challenging urban environment was a constant influence that shaped the par...

A 2 months old child was brought with c/o arching of back and fisting present since day 15 life, which increased during feeding h/o not gaining weight birth. They were evaluated at a local doctor where the started on calcium syrup is taking medications for 1 month. Despite treatment, still having similar complaints. Now has been to hospital multiple episodes breath-holding spells, convulsions, ...

Skazka Skazok/Tale of Tales (Yuri Norstein, 1979) has delighted and puzzled audiences critics ever since its release. It presents a series beautifully-animated episodes that seem to make narrative sense at the micro-level appear fit together as whole, but leaves audience bemused why this should be so. The article discusses history context film, arguing ways in which sound and, particularly, mus...

Active earth pressure on retaining structures supporting a narrow column of soil cannot be properly analysed using Coulomb's theory. Finite-element limit analysis (FELA) shows that the forms multiple failure surfaces if is sufficiently narrow. This paper proposes framework for active estimation soils by combining an arched differential element method and sliding wedge method. The analytical con...