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Current Aspects of Bulgarian Participation in Peace Support Operations [PDF]

Journal of Defense Resources Management, 2016
Today’s world events mandate a need to project all available and legitimate methods to enable our war-fighters and leaders to effectively deal with a host of traditional as well as nontraditional threats and the newest challenges.
Petar Marinov
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Trends in the use and costs of round-the-clock long-term care in the last two years of life among old people between 2002 and 2013 in Finland

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background The structure of long-term care (LTC) for old people has changed: care has been shifted from institutions to the community, and death is being postponed to increasingly old age.
Leena Forma, Marja Jylhä, Jutta Pulkki, Mari Aaltonen, Jani Raitanen, Pekka Rissanen   +5 more
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Quality Assurance in Long-Term Care and Development of Quality Indicators in Japan

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2020
Dealing with an aging society is a global challenge, and more countries than ever before are now mobilizing their healthcare systems to provide high-quality long-term care (LTC) to older adults.
Ayumi Igarashi PhD, RN, Sameh Eltaybani PhD, Manami Takaoka MHS, RN, Maiko Noguchi-Watanabe PhD, RN, Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani PhD, RN, GNP   +4 more
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What is the level of information technology maturity in Ontario’s long-term care homes? A cross-sectional survey study protocol

BMJ Open, 2023
Introduction The number of Canadians 75 years and older is expected to double over the next 20 years, putting continuing care systems such as long-term care (LTC) homes under increasing pressure.
Clare Liddy, Sathya Karunananthan, Gregory Alexander, Mohamed Gazarin, Peter Tanuseputro, Amy T Hsu, Ramtin Hakimjavadi, Celeste Fung, Deanne Houghton, James LaPlante, Cheryl Levi   +10 more
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A cross-sectional survey assessing the preparedness of the long-term care sector to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada

BMC Geriatrics, 2020
Background The COVID-19 pandemic is a significant public health emergency that impacts all sectors of healthcare. The negative health outcomes for the COVID-19 infection have been most severe in the frail elderly dwelling in Canadian long-term care (LTC)
Henry Yu-Hin Siu, Lorand Kristof, Dawn Elston, Abe Hafid, Fred Mather   +4 more
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Transformer Load-Tap Changers: State-of-Art and Trends

Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2004
Load tap changes (LTC) are a major component of many transformers. They are used to change the voltage of secondary/primary side of a transformer to compensate for voltage variations in the power systems manly caused by variable loading.
Miroslava Tesarova, Milan Krasl
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Transport Sector GHG Mitigation Measures: Abatement Costs Application Review

Future Transportation
The transport sector is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, making its decarbonization critical for climate change mitigation efforts.
Lorena Mirela Ricci, Daniel Neves Schmitz Gonçalves, Marcio de Almeida D’Agosto   +2 more
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Long-Term Care in Rural Alberta: Exploring Autonomy and Capacity for Action

Journal of Long-Term Care, 2020
Context: Since the 1990s, Alberta, Canada has seen considerable restructuring to health and long-term care (LTC) services. Most LTC research is conducted in urban centres.
Julia Brassolotto, Sienna Caspar, Shannon Spenceley, Carly-Ann Haney   +3 more
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NETWORK-CENTRIC WARFARE AND NETWORK ENABLED CAPABILITY IMPLICATIONS OVER THE C4ISR TYPE INFORMATION NETWORKS IN THE ROMANIAN ARMED FORCES [PDF]

Annals: Series on Military Sciences, 2010
The last two decades have been marked by the evolution of mankind toward the Information Age, a new stage of societal development where the modem society is affected, among other factors, by the explosive technological changes.
Cristea DUMITRU
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Influence of the Size Reduction on the Thermal Conductivity of Bismuth Nanowires [PDF]

Eurasian Journal of Science and Engineering, 2019
Theoretical calculations on the lattice thermal conductivity (LTC) of the bulk bismuth (Bi) and nanowires (NWs) have been studied with diameters 98 nm, 115 nm and 327 nm in the 〈110〉 direction from temperature range of 0 to 300 K.
Ibrahim Nazem Qader, Botan Jawdat Abdullah, Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, Peshawa H. Mahmood   +3 more
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