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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Bathing"”.
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Increasing Chlorhexidine (CHG) Daily Bathing Compliance
<p>Chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) daily bathing in hospitalized patients in the intensive care setting is one of many interventions implemented by institutions to reduce and prevent central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) and catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). …
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Statistical analysis of bathing water quality in Scotland
… to determine the quality of a single sample of bathing water, whether or not it could be discounted and whether or not this could be set generically. The focus of the work later changed to become the definition of discounting limits that could be used to identify the samples which should be …
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Baths and Public Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity, 300-700
In antiquity, bathing was not the private affair it is today. It was a public activity involving all classes of Roman society. Baths dotted the landscapes of cities across the empire, and even villages, military forts, monasteries, and villas contained public (or semi-public) baths. After an …
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The revised European bathing water directive: a case for interdisciplinarity?
The Revised Bathing Water Directive will have a major impact on the way that Competent Authorities assess water quality. It requires work in various disciplines to be streamlined into delivering the methods and approaches needed to deliver the requirements of the Directive. To achieve this, …
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Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing in Hospitalized Patients: Reducing Barriers and Increasing Compliance Rate
… implementation of Chlorhexidine Gluconate (CHG) bathing protocol is one of many measures used to help reduce hospital-acquired infections (HAI) at the 30-bed, Medical-Surgical Specialties and Palliative Care Unit. CHG bathing compliance rate for the unit for the week of August 14-20 was 82.9%, …
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Battle of the Bains: Tactical Bathing in Two Expository Texts, One Film and a Novella
… one can posit the hammam, and acts of shared bathing in two expository texts, a film and a novella as riposte: Le bain turc is as a pool of resistive, not passive, odalisques. In this work I draw on Victor Turner's theories of Social Drama, and Michel de Certeau's concepts of strategies and …
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Bathing and the British Army on the Western Front. A Study of Civilian and Military Influences
… dissertation describe s how and why systems of bathing were introduced on the Western Front in November 1914 and their further development during the War. It examines the influence of civilians in the Army, both as providers and users of baths, and also that of families and friends at home. The …
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Willingness to Pay for Safer Bathing Water in Poland: A Discrete Choice Experiment linked to Benefit-Cost Analysis
This thesis assesses the plausibility of bathing-water interventions in Poland by eliciting people's preferences for reducing infection risk and increasing the frequency of seawater quality monitoring. A discrete choice experiment with a tax payment vehicle was used to derive willingness to pay …
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Lipopolysaccharide in marine bathing water; a potential real-time biomarker of bacterial contamination and relevance to human health
The quality of marine bathing water is currently assessed by monitoring the levels of faecal indicator bacteria. Among other drawbacks, results are retrospective using the traditional culture based methods. A rapid method is thus needed as an early warning to bathers for bacterial contamination in …
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Dust bathing behaviours of Elephants, Zebras and Wildebeest and the potential risk of inhalational anthrax in Etosha National Park
… This study investigated the seasonality of dust bathing as a possible contributor to inhalational anthrax in zebra, blue wildebeest and African elephants, in relation to the seasonality of anthrax mortalities in Etosha National Park. Most anthrax cases are observed during the wet season, although …
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A comparison of two bathing methods : Effects on the haemodynamic and subjective responses of low risk patients within 48 hours post myocardial infarction
… effect showering by nurses, as compared to bed bathing patients, has on the haemodynamic and subjective responses of low risk patients within 48 hours of having a myocardial infarction. The sample consisted of 50 patients, 8 female and 42 male, with a mean age of 61 years (SD = 10). Twenty-five …
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Floating Bath Houses: Public Health and Recreation for the Working Class in Nineteenth-century New Orleans
… from the effort of entrepreneurs to provide bathing and swimming facilities for the city's working poor. In exchange for a relatively inexpensive fee per use, working-class New Orleanians served as the customer base for “floating pools†moored along the Mississippi riverfront. Beginning …
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Activities of Daily Living and Post Hospitalized Rural Elderly Person's Home Help
… The greatest areas of dependence in ADLs were bathing and dressing. Eighty-three percent of subjects were in the two most independent categories of function in ADLs. The mean Lawton IADL score was 4.7 (± 2.1). Areas of greatest dependence in IADLs were transportation, shopping and laundry. The …
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Structural Studies of the Corneal Stroma
… function of the pH and~he ionic strength of the bathing solution. Initially, the total water content per unit dry weight is studied as a function of the bathing solution and the time of dwelling. Low-angle x-ray diffraction techniques are used to monitor the centre-to-centre distance between the …
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Advancing the sock test for sitting balance: A comparison with the Barthel Index of activities of daily living in older adults
… following BI scores: self-feeding (p < .05) and bathing, dressing, urinary incontinence, and stair mobility (p < .01). The results indicated that the STSB did not differentiate between the independent living and assisted living communities. However, a significant correlation emerged between the …
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Our plumbing, ourselves : a public bath house
… of today's socio-economic systems; -- notions of bathing for hygiene and bathing for rejuvenation. The first might be considered a 'process of elimination' while the latter a 'process of preservation'. The two are not necessarily exclusive, but there are differences between them. One involves the …
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The Impact of Certified Pool Operator Training on Swimming Pool Inspection Outcomes
… of Kentucky had over 3,800 active public bathing or swimming pool facilities. In compliance with 902 KRS 10:010 Kentucky Swimming and Bathing Facility regulation, all bathing and swimming pools for public access are subject to inspection and monitoring by local and state health agencies. …
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The Gendered Health Effect of Intimate Task Performance on Spousal Caregivers
… dealing with incontinence and assisting with bathing/showering. To explore this, I conducted logistic regressions using the 2015 and 2020 "Caregiving in the U.S.'' surveys from the AARP. My results showed IT performance has a negative effect on the stress and overall health of both husbands …
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Functional Consequences and Mechanism of Lsd Action in the Lateral Eye of Limulus
… presence of 5-HT, LSD, chlorimipramine, and a bathing medium high in Mg('++) and low in Ca('++) which partially or completely blocks synaptic transmission.
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