This paper outlines the prominence of home care for disabled people in the UK and Wales before introducing the debate surrounding paying for such services. It will then give an overview of policy developments in this area since 1997, including the Royal Commission on Long Term Care (Sutherland, 1999), the introduction of free personal care in Scotland following devolution, in 2001 and the failu...

Since devolution in 1998, the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) has been proactive in exercising its responsibilities for equalities within its territories (Chaney, 2009; Davies, 2003). The Government of Wales Act 2006 moreover, placed a statutory duty on the Assembly to have due regard for equality of opportunity in everything it did. Although discrimination law in itself is not a function that ...

Within the framework of the cubic honeycomb (cubic tessellation) of Euclidean 3-space, we define a quantum system whose states, called quantum knots, represent a closed knotted piece of rope, i.e., represent the particular spatial configuration of a knot tied in a rope in 3-space. This quantum system, called a quantum knot system, is physically implementable in the same sense as Shor’s quantum ...

Adherence index, superoxide and TNF-alpha production in monocytes, with or without tuftsin treatment, were investigated in hepatosplenic schistosomiasis mansoni bearers with splenectomy with or without autologous implantation of spleen tissue. Three groups were evaluated: Healthy volunteers control group (CG) (n=12); Splenectomy with seft auto-transplant AG (n=18) and Splenectomy without auto-t...

Evidence is presented that MHC restriction of foreign transplantation antigens occurs when tolerance is induced. Whereas PVG and F344 rats rendered tolerant at birth with (DA X PVG)F1 and (DA X F344)F1 hybrid bone marrow cells (BMC), respectively, accept ACI skin grafts, presumably because the foreign transplantation antigens of these third party grafts, which are MHC-compatible with DA, are re...

Using infrared spectroscopy we have observed Se-H stretch and wag local vibrational modes (LVM’s) in AlSb. The frequencies of the wag mode harmonics are explained by perturbation theory. In addition, there is evidence of a resonant interaction between LVM’s and multi-phonon modes. This interaction leads to a splitting of the SeH stretch mode into three peaks at 1606.3, 1608.6, and 1615.7 cm at ...

BACKGROUND The present study was designed to investigate the behavioral and neurochemical effects of long-term oral rutin administration to old male WAG rats (100 and 200 mg/kg b.w./day). Rutin is a well-known dietary flavonol glycoside with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. METHODS First, spatial memory was assessed in the water maze and then the levels of neurotransmitters in se...

This paper addresses the use of the Constrained Direct Iterative Surface Curvature (CDISC) design method in the aircraft design process. A discussion of some of the requirements for practical use of CFD in the design process is followed by a description of different CFD design methods, along with their relative strengths and weaknesses. A detailed description of the CDISC design method highligh...

Antinociceptive action of diclofenac (non-opioid analgesic) was investigated in male and female normotensive (WKY) and genetically established hypertensive (SHR) and normotensive WAG. The drug was administered subcutaneously in doses of 10 mg/kg body weight and per os 20 mg/kg and 40 mg/kg. Statistically significant differences in pain threshold were reported between male and female rats of inv...