GENERAL 1-1. Purpose. This manual is a guide and basic 1-4.1.2. Because of the difficulty in defining levels reference for facility engineers and other personnel of cleanliness, Governmental cleaning contract spe-engaged in the preparation of contract documents cifications have often been ambiguous. The am-and the administration of custodial services biguities have resulted in misunderstandings...

PROBLEM/CONDITION Asthma, a chronic respiratory disease with episodic symptoms, increased in prevalence during 1980-1996 in the United States. Asthma has been the focus of numerous provider interventions (e.g., improving adherence to asthma guidelines) and public health interventions during recent years. Although the etiology of asthma is unknown, adherence to medical treatment regimen and envi...

BACKGROUND Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic disorder characterized by widespread, persistent pain. Prospective and retrospective studies have demonstrated substantial health-care costs associated with FM in a number of countries. This study evaluated and compared health-resource use (HRU) and associated costs related to FM in routine clinical practice across the US, France, and Germany. METHODS...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association of patient-reported severity of painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (pDPN) with other outcomes in a European population of patients using the Adelphi Disease Specific Programme for pDPN (DSP III, 2008). METHODS The severity of patients' pDPN (mild, moderate, or severe) was rated independently by both patients and physicians. Relationships were evaluate...

The production (or industrial) engineer’s role allows the planning of industrial facilities in a way to eliminate or minimize different forms of barriers that can appear during the phase of planning the facilities, making the industrial worrk environment accessible for disabled people or people with mobility impairments. Though, the main reference works used as national and international refere...

Component-based software development (CBSD) technology uses components as first-class objects and therefore requires a good understanding of the nature of components. Industrial approaches to CBSD based on interoperability standards (such as OMG CORBA) lack of component semantics in their descriptional models. In this paper we present an overview of the SYNTHESIS method emerging the CBSD approa...