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Exploring the Spiritual Dimension of Social Work

Critical Social Work, 2019
Social work’s response to the rising levels of public and professional interest in spirituality poses some important questions: i.Why is this important to social work practice?  ii.What do we mean by spirituality?
Michael McKernan
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FISHING OPERATIONS: SERVICE AND SUPERVISING

Известия высших учебных заведений: Нефть и газ, 2016
The paper discusses the problems of oil and gas wells major repair, in particular, the emergency- restoration and fishing operations. The estimation of services rendered by service repair companies is made.
Yu. V. Vaganov, A. V. Kustyshev, O. V. Gagarina   +2 more
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Service supply chain management: a behavioural operations perspective [PDF]

Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications, 2019
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the evolution of service supply chain management from a behavioural operations perspective, pointing out future research directions for scholars.
Weihua Liu, Di Wang, Shangsong Long, Xinran Shen, Victor Shi   +4 more
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How social entrepreneurship can be useful in long-term recovery following disasters [PDF]

Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2017
Purpose – This paper supports the call for using a separate research stream for long-term recovery vs disaster relief in humanitarian studies.
Sherwat Elwan Ibrahim, Raghda El Ebrashi
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Manufacturing operations as services by robots with skills

Open Engineering, 2022
This work considers flexible manufacturing operations based on reconfigurable robotic skills and their usage in fully automated service manufacturing.
Heikkilä Tapio, Pakkala Daniel, Seppälä Tuomas, Kotaniemi Jarkko, Pääkkönen Pekka, Saukkoriipi Janne, Niskanen Ilkka   +6 more
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Modelling the stand dynamics after a thinning induced partial mortality: A compensatory growth perspective

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
IntroductionWith increasing forest areas under management, dynamics of managed stands have gained more attention by forest managers and practitioners.
Chao Li, Hugh Barclay, Shongming Huang, Bernard Roitberg, Bernard Roitberg, Robert Lalonde, Wenli Xu, Yingbing Chen   +7 more
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Spatio-temporal cluster detection of chickenpox in Valencia, Spain in the period 2008-2012

Geospatial Health, 2015
Chickenpox is a highly contagious airborne disease caused by Varicella zoster, which affects nearly all non-immune children worldwide with an annual incidence estimated at 80-90 million cases.
Adina Iftimi, Francisco Martínez-Ruiz, Ana Míguez Santiyán, Francisco Montes   +3 more
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Flexibility in matching

Fundamental Research, 2021
We examine a service system that matches jobs and candidates with different ability levels. A candidate’s ability will affect the possibility of obtaining a high return on a job assignment.
Huan Zheng, Ying Rong
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FTS Service Evolution and LHC Run-3 Operations [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences
The File Transfer Service (FTS) is a software system responsible for queuing, scheduling, dispatching and retrying file transfer requests, it is used by three of the LHC experiments, namely ATLAS, CMS and LHCb, as well as non LHC experiments including ...
Murray Steven, Patrascoiu Mihai, Mascetti Luca, Lopes Joao Pedro, Misra Shubhangi, Silva Junior Eraldo   +5 more
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Sustained Improvement in Patient Experience by Optimizing Patient Flow in Ambulatory Settings

Journal of Patient Experience, 2022
Patient experience has become a priority for healthcare institutions as it affects clinical quality of care, financial reimbursement, provider, and patient satisfaction.
Dinesh S Pashankar MD, MBA, Troy Brown BS, MBA, Paul Votto MBA, Marie Follo, Richard N Formica MD, FAST, Michael L Schilsky MD, FAASLD, David C Mulligan MD, FAST, Babar Khokhar MD, MBA   +7 more
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