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The ‘regulated death’: a documentary analysis of the regulation and inspection of dying and death in English care homes for older people. [PDF]
, 2007 In England, processes of regulation and inspection have been established to ensure that older people living in long-term care settings receive quality care.
Froggatt, Katherine A.
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Condition inspections of residential property: a procedural framework [PDF]
, 2002 Presents a procedural framework for the inspection of domestic property. A mechanistic task, such as sketching the site plan and roof plan, is advocated in order to achieve focus, familiarity and freedom to undertake the inspection alone.
Hoxley, M
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The Impact of Imperfect Maintenance Scheduling on the Physical Degradation of Painted Renderings
Buildings, 2022 Theoretical studies suggest that maintenance improves the state of conservation of buildings and components, increasing their durability and service life. However, the existing studies point to a qualitative improvement somewhere between “as-good-as-new”
André Petersen +2 more
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A BIM Based Framework for Damage Segmentation, Modeling, and Visualization Using IFC
Applied Sciences, 2022 Paper-based data acquisition and manual transfer between incompatible software or data formats during inspections of bridges, as done currently, are time-consuming, error-prone, cumbersome, and lead to information loss.
Mathias Artus +2 more
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Recursive Inspection Games [PDF]
, 2016 We consider a sequential inspection game where an inspector uses a limited number of inspections over a larger number of time periods to detect a violation (an illegal act) of an inspectee.
von Stengel, Bernhard
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 This paper focuses on concepts and labels used in investigation of adverse events in healthcare. The aim is to prompt critical reflection of how different stakeholders frame investigative activity in healthcare and to discuss the implications of the ...
Siri Wiig +5 more
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Assessing Critical Adaptations in Automated Adaptive Software Systems by Stage Decomposition
IEEE AccessIn environments involving a variety of connected devices and systems, there is an ever-increasing demand for automated adaptation. To ensure that all threats are identified and manageable in such environments, quality assurance activities including ...
Shuji Morisaki +2 more
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A New Direct and Inexpensive Method and the Associated Device for the Inspection of Spur Gears
Machines, 2023 This paper proposes a new rapid and straightforward method along with a related device for finding the three basic parameters of an actual external involute spur gear. The number of teeth is easily counted, but the other two parameters—the module and the
Stelian Alaci +5 more
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Improved combustion chamber optical probe [PDF]
, 1969 Optical inspection probe permits remote inspection of combustion chambers through 360 degrees, and is fully controllable in terms of elevation, focus, and sweep. It eliminates the hazards of physically entering combustion chamber interiors and throats of
Walker, J.
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DronesThe application of computer vision in conjunction with GPS is essential for autonomous wind turbine inspection, particularly when the drone navigates through a wind farm to detect the turbine of interest. Although drones for such inspections use GPS, our
Angel A. Rodriguez +2 more
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