This article presents the author's personal reflections and experiences in providing case management for patients with end-of-life issues. Through case examples and practical guidelines, the reader will gain an insight into dealing with terminal states in the acute care setting. References were drawn from recent literature on the subject, and were the stimulus to this piece.

Empirische Untersuchungen sind aus der Softwareforschung nicht mehr wegzudenken. Explorative empirische Studien einschließlich kontrollierter Experimente vergleichen verschiedene Techniken, um festzustellen, ob bei Verwendung der Techniken Unterschiede in der Qualität von Software, der Bearbeitungszeit oder anderen Eigenschaften tatsächlich zu beobachten sind. Diese Studien bestätigen oder verw...

In this paper we describe a new method to measure the position of an overhead line in a railway application. The height and stagger of an overhead line can nowadays be measured through a stereo-vision system composed of two line scanner cameras; the existing applications, unfortunately, cause some malfunctioning. In this work we want to test a new method that increases the resolution of wire im...

The main objective of this work was to design a novel device for compaction of metal powders so that the green parts could be ejected with applying a negligible force and without the need for any lubricant in either an admixed form or applied to the die wall. For this purpose a 40 mm diameter one-piece die was envisaged which would elastically contracted 0.076 mm before compaction and after com...

In this paper, an analytical method for noncircular shape extrusion is presented. Using this method, non-linear deformation field can be described with Hermit cubic spline which is prescribed by the boundary conditions of the die at its entryand exit. The upper bound method has been used to obtain optimum coefficient of the tangential boundary conditions. The results show that the optimum tange...

In this paper, an analytical method for noncircular shape extrusion is presented. Using this method, non-linear deformation field can be described with Hermit cubic spline which is prescribed by the boundary conditions of the die at its entryand exit. The upper bound method has been used to obtain optimum coefficient of the tangential boundary conditions. The results show that the optimum tange...

rectangular waveguide (wr) is one of the earliest types of transmission lines. rectangular waveguide can be produced by hot extrusion process. in this paper, the hot extrusion process of cuzn5 rectangular waveguide was investigated by finite element method (fem). in addition, genetic algorithm method (ga) was used to optimize the die geometry and process conditions to achieve the lowest magnitu...

energy equation for turbulent flow in a rotating system was derived in terms of second order correlation tensors, where the correlation tensors were functions of space coordinates, distance between two points and time. to reveal the relationship of turbulent energy between two points, one point was taken as origin of the coordinate system. due to rotation, the coriolis force played an important...

Several physics-based models have been utilized in material design for the simulation and prediction of properties. In this study, several machine-learning (ML) approaches were used to construct a model analyze influence equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) parameters on microstructural, corrosion mechanical behavior biodegradable magnesium alloy ZK30. The ML employed linear regression, Gaussi...

Deep drawing process is one of the most applicable methods in producing industrial parts. In this process, the initial blank deforms to final product using a rigid punch and die. In this investigation, the effect of deep drawing process parameters of brass/steel laminated sheet composites on required forming force has been investigated. The process simulated using finite element method (FEM) an...