Enteral feeding has become an invaluable treatment in both the hospital and home setting. However, it is not without complications, the commonest of which is diarrhoea. This occurs in up to 25% of patients on general wards and 63% of patients on intensive care units. 5 Diarrhoea not only limits the eYcacy of enteral feeding, but also adds to potential complications, distresses both patients and...

Pavement rutting is one of the most common and destructive pavement distresses being observed in flexible pavements, which is primarily due to axle loads that exceed legal limit and high ambient temperatures, and also poor mix design is one of the cause of rutting. The drastic increase in traffic volume during last few decades has resulted in premature pavement failures of almost the whole road...

Rough Set Theory (RST) is an induction based decision-making technique, which can extract useful information from attribute-value (decision) table. This study introduces RST into pavement management system (PMS) for maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) strategy induction. An empirical study is conducted by using the pavement distress data collected from 7 county roads by experienced pavement en...

This case report shares a nursing experience that applied Swanson's Caring Theory as part of the care regimen for a terminal lung cancer patient suffering from spiritual distress. The nursing care was provided from March 20th to April 25th, 2012. Data were collected through observation and conversation and recorded using sketches and written notes. The nurse assessed the patient's relationships...

Pavement condition assessment is an indispensable constituent in maintaining roadway infrastructure. Current practices for pavement condition assessment are labor intensive which introduce subjectivity in pavement rating and are time consuming. Automated methods rely on full 3D reconstruction of the pavement surface which introduces high equipment and computation costs. This paper presents a me...

Enteral feeding has become an invaluable treatment in both the hospital and home setting. However, it is not without complications, the commonest of which is diarrhoea. This occurs in up to 25% of patients on general wards and 63% of patients on intensive care units. 5 Diarrhoea not only limits the eYcacy of enteral feeding, but also adds to potential complications, distresses both patients and...

Like other multifactorial syndromes, the onset of bronchial asthma with psychogenic trigger (BAPT) is infl uenced by psychological stimuli, supplementary to organ-specifi c factors (allergens, viruses, bacteria, physical or chemical irritants etc.). Demonstration of psychogenic etiology was made by questionnaires applied to asthmatic patients, with respect to the stressing circumstances of asth...

In 2007, a national call number was created to receive reports of ill-treatment for aged or handicapped subjects, and departmental platforms of phone-tapping were organized. Professionals of listening receive the calls for assistance or confidences of distresses related to ill treatments. They should initiate a relationship and assess the danger of the condition, therefore, in a systemic paradi...