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The implementation and evaluation of a flexible, mixed‐model food service system for a greenfield hospital

open access: yesNutrition &Dietetics, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims The opening of a new digital metropolitan hospital with surgical and subacute cohorts required a flexible food service model to meet diverse patient needs. This project aimed to design, implement and evaluate such a system, optimising service efficiencies and patient experience. Methods A flexible, mixed‐model food service was designed by
Jennifer Ellick   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Searching for Bioethical Prescriptions in a Moral Lab

open access: yesEthics in Progress, 2017
The paper reviews the book written by F.M. Kamm, entitled Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives (published in Oxford: Oxford University Press in 2013, pp. 599).
Marta Soniewicka
doaj   +1 more source

Distribution of normal reactions between the axles of the truck's balancing trolley during braking [PDF]

open access: yesAvtomobilʹnyj Transport (Harʹkov), 2019
Problem. The distribution of normal reactions between the axles of a wheeled vehicle when braking is a very important parameter that determines the so-called curves of the realized tire traction.
Bogomolov Victor   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fifty years of killing and letting die: On the limits of philosophical bioethics

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1975, The New England Journal of Medicine published James Rachels' article ‘Active and Passive Euthanasia’. The argumentative method that Rachels introduced, the Bare Difference Argument (also known as the Contrast Strategy), became one of the most widely used tools in ethical reasoning.
Joona Räsänen, Matti Häyry
wiley   +1 more source

Beware the Trolley Zealots

open access: yesSociologica, 2020
This essay draws on Mary Douglas' theory of institutional styles of thinking to analyze the debate about how and when the Coronavirus crisis can be brought to an end. The dominant approach, I show, frames the problem in utilitarian terms, akin to what is
Gil Eyal
doaj   +1 more source

An experimental study of the efficiency of optimal control for lifting machines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The article is devoted to the synthesis of optimal speed performance control, in which the Pontryagin maximum principle and the phase-plane method are used to search for switching points of the relay control function.
Anishchenko, Galina   +4 more
core  

Recommendation on the use of protective eyewear in endourological laser procedures

open access: yesBJU International, Volume 135, Issue 4, Page 577-581, April 2025.
Objectives This work examines the current evidence available regarding the risks of eye injury in endourology laser environments with the aim of providing a consensus recommendation on the appropriate use of protective eyewear. Methods A working group was set up consisting of urological surgeons and laser protection advisors.
Tom Lister   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Getting to the COR of Workarounds: A Resource Perspective on Deviating Usage of Critical Care Information Systems

open access: yesInformation Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Workarounds in high‐hazard environments like intensive care units (ICUs) compromise safety and regulatory compliance. While prior research attributes these deviations to technology misfits and notes self‐reinforcing dynamics, the underlying mechanisms of aggravating workaround spirals remain understudied.
Pauline Kuss   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethical and Social Aspects of Self-Driving Cars

open access: yes, 2018
As an envisaged future of transportation, self-driving cars are being discussed from various perspectives, including social, economical, engineering, computer science, design, and ethics.
Dodig-Crnkovic, Gordana   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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