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Showing 1 to 20 of 462 for “"End-of-Life"”.
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End-of-life cycle product management
Market leadership requires effective management of product life cycle, starting from the launch of a new product until its retirement. In this particular project, an exploratory study of business practices in the management of products in the decline phase and the eventual decision of product …
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Thresholds: End of Life and Architecture
The ultimate threshold state of a human life is the time preceding death. Hospice care provides a gateway environment for many people for their transition to the other side. Societies throughout history have had rituals and traditions to support the dying and their loved ones, but for modern …
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End-of-life analysis of nanotechnology products
… melting point and specific heat capacity of nanomaterials may be higher than that of their corresponding bulk materials. The melting point elevation and specific heat capacity enhancement of nanomaterials may result in increased energy consumption and waste gases emission at the …
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Family Communication About End-of-Life Decisions
… For adults with serious illness nearing the end of life there are difficult decisions to be made about medical care and treatment. However, persons with life-threatening illness are commonly incapacitated, leaving the responsibility for making critical end-of-life decisions to family. To …
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Self-care towards the end of life
… Self-care is widely promoted as a means of managing chronic disease, reducing healthcare costs, and improving patient outcomes. However, its application towards the end of life, a period marked by increasing frailty, dependency, and shifting care priorities, remains underexplored. …
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Pain and Spiritual Distress at End of Life
<p><strong>Purpose:</strong> The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between unmanaged pain and spiritual distress in adults newly admitted to hospice.</p> <p><strong>Background/Rationale:</strong> Current evidence supports the presence of a positive relationship between increased …
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Family conversations about end-of-life health decisions
Communicating about end-of-life decisions can be one of the most challenging and consequential experiences individuals and their families can face. A great deal of end-of-life research is predicated on the reasoning that family communication is critical to the delivery of effective advance care, …
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Understanding community end of life anticipatory medication care
The prescribing of injectable end-of-life anticipatory medications ahead of possible need has become established good practice in controlling distressing symptoms for patients dying in the community. The intervention aims to optimise timely symptom control, provide reassurance for patients and …
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Quantifying racial disparities in end-of-life care
… disparities in healthcare, particularly during end-of-life care when poor communication and historical inequities can lead to suboptimal options and outcomes for patients and their families. Previous work has suggested that medical disparities can reflect higher rates of mistrust for the …
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Implementing Flow Processing with Product End of Life Remanufacturing
… utilization through identifying percentage of %Blocking and %Waiting on individual workstations within a remanufacturing flow line. It attempts to achieve this aim such that improved use of methods to overcome the effect of variability can be employed. Extensive literature review revealed …
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End-of-life care in China: ecology of hope
In this thesis I explore the current end-of-life care provision as experienced by older people with advanced cancer in three distinct care settings in Yunnan China: a hospice, an inpatient palliative care ward and a self-help organisation. In particular, I focus on the role of "hope" at the end of …
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Medication use in palliative and end of life care
Background:<br/>People with advanced cancer are often prescribed complex medication regimens. This makes the process of medicines management (incorporating prescribing, dispensing, adherence and medication review) challenging for this patient population. The overall aim of this thesis was to …
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Conscientiousness and preparedness for retirement and end of life
The population of the United States is growing older, and previous research has found that many do not appear to be well-prepared for retirement and end of life (EOL). The current research investigated how conscientiousness is related to preparedness for retirement and EOL in three different ways …
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Evaluating end-of-life strategies for decommissioned semiconductor facilities
This thesis studies the life-cycle of semiconductor facilities and the potential roles that they may play once they reach the end of their life. Specifically, the author's findings are based on studies associated with the decommissioning of a semiconductor manufacturing facility ("fab") at the …
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Navigating the Cathexis: Mothers and Daughters and End of Life
… with women's lives and examines the experience of mothering (and daughtering) across the full continuum of women's lives, including the end of their lives. Specifically, my work focuses on the cathexis, the specific flow of energy that moves between mothers and daughters as they navigate the …
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Characterization of pyrolysis products from end-of-life electronic equipment
Tertiary Recycling of End-of-Life electronic equipment such as computer monitor casings and disk drives is considered in this project. This research aim's at finding new recycling processes that have a possibility for economic scale-up. The present work was divided into two parts. The first one …
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