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Improving advance care planning and advance directive rates in primary care through a multidisciplinary approach
Background and Review of Literature: Lack of advance care planning (ACP) leads to unwanted treatments and suffering for patients, along with increased healthcare costs. Certain vulnerable populations are at increased risk for unnecessary suffering, including those with high emergency department …
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The Piedmont Triad Regional Advance Directive Project
I participated in a project to rewrite the advance directives in use at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The project quickly blossomed into an initiative to improve advance directives throughout the entire Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. Many other hospitals and health care providers …
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Application of Signal Advance Technology to Electrophysiology
… circuits, has been shown to temporally advance the detection of analog waveforms. Specifically, the output is temporally advanced relative to the input, as the time delay through the circuit is negative. The circuit output precedes the complete detection of the input signal. This process …
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Advance care planning conversations: the family perspective
… families are unprepared to make such decisions. Advance care planning (ACP) creates an excellent context for laying the groundwork for these emotionally charged conversations. Hemodialysis patients, their families and healthcare providers (HCPs) are in a unique position to begin the ACP process …
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A cash-in-advance model of production
… length in the empirical application of cash-in-advance (CIA) models is introduced. CIA models posit that individuals and firms hold cash to purchase goods over a period. However, there has been no research into how long a period is. Existing empirical studies use quarterly or annual data in …
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Advance restless leg syndrome monitoring with deep learning
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Guidelines on advance defences to hostile take-overs
Take-overs A take-over involves a change of control of a company.1 This occurs when the , existing shareholders of a target (or offeree) company transfer sufficient shares to an offeror so as to give to the offeror control of the voting power attaching to the target company's share cap~tal.2 This …
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Transformational leadership theory: creative advance or theoretical desperation
Transformational leadership is held by its theorists to consist of charisma (mission articulation, empowerment, and confidence in followers), intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration. lt is alleged to result from flexible structure, crisis, and high socio-economic status (except …
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Promotion of Advance Care Planning for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
… States experience disparities in access to advance care planning and may have significant unmet healthcare needs at the end of life, including unrelieved suffering. People who are homeless have increased morbidity and mortality risks, yet lack opportunities to discuss end-of-life …
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Building Women’s Solidarity to Advance Women’s Rights in Bolivia
<p>This paper takes a historical look at the deep-seated ethnic and class divisions between women in Bolivia. It also examines the cultural challenges that help explain the status of women in Bolivia and the obstacles women face to become politically active. It provides the theories of …
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Detector Improvements and Optimization to Advance Gravitational-wave Astronomy
<p>The thesis covers a range of topics relevant to the current and future gravitational-wave facilities. After the last science observing run, O3, that ended in March 2020, the aLIGO and VIRGO gravitational-wave detectors are undergoing upgrades to improve their sensitivity. My thesis focuses on …
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Evaluating Digital Health Technologies to Advance Parkinson's Disease Care
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common progressive neurological disorder characterised by a complex range of motor and non-motor symptoms (NMS). Current PD service provision does not meet the needs of patients, and puts pressure on services with limited capacity. Digital Health Technologies (DHTs), …
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Bandwidth broker for advance resource reservation in diffserv networks
… this work supports inter-domain negotiation and advance reservation efficiently through the Simple Inter-domain Bandwidth Broker Signaling eXtended (SIBBS-X) protocol. Compared to other advance reservation systems, which use slotted-time algorithms, this BB work implements a novel AVL-tree based …
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Ethical decision making : advance directives and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
… a person’s experience and understanding of advance directives in physical health care. Four themes emerged: ‘hope and fears for the family’; ‘the trust between the participant and the doctor’; ‘the communication of advance directives by health care staff’ and ‘hope and fears for the …
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Advance and Retreat: Motion in Roethke's "North American Sequence"
… an analysis of the imagery of movements which advance and retreat in "North American Sequence” I think the thematic and structural development of the poems will become apparent. Since the poems in the second and third sequences of The Far Field receive their thrust from the focus of the opening …
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Engineering functional biomaterials to advance environmental and resource sustainability
Recovering resources from waste streams offers a sustainable solution to the growing scarcity of resources and the increasing environmental impact of waste. A significant challenge lies in efficiently extracting or converting valuable resources from complex waste mixtures into recoverable forms. In …
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Un modelo de cash-in-advance: aplicación para la Argentina
Esta tesis solo está en formato papel por lo que se debe consultar en la propia Biblioteca Di Tella. La consulta se hace solo bajo reserva escribiendo a serviciosbiblio@utdt.edu.
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Contributions to the advance of the integration density of CubeSats
… which are based on angular momentum exchange, is advanced by the author by introducing miniaturized 3D-printed conduits for single unit CubeSat applications. Following development and functional verification, actuators are compared to existing reaction wheel systems, which shows their superiority …
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Feasibility of a Prognostication Aid to Promote Advance Care Planning.
Background: Advance care planning is a process which supports individuals in anticipating future care needs and being able to contribute to those decisions. By identifying those more likely to deteriorate, and require healthcare support, they can be empowered by having their preferences recognised. …
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