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Information Technologies for Welfare Monitoring in Pigs and Their Relation to Welfare Quality® [PDF]
Sustainability, 2021 The assessment of animal welfare on-farm is important to ensure that current welfare standards are followed. The current manual assessment proposed by Welfare Quality® (WQ), although being an essential tool, is only a point-estimate in time, is very time consuming to perform, only evaluates a subset of the animals, and is performed by the subjective ...
Larsen, Mona +2 more
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The Policies of Provision of Assistive and Welfare Technology—A Literature Review
Societies, 2020 Background: Due to the increasing ageing population worldwide, humanity is facing global demographic challenges. For many people, their later years are often lived with changed functioning and the need for support in daily living activities.
Katarina Baudin +3 more
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Nordisk Välfärdsforskning, 2019 Patient@home was the largest Danish project within health and welfare technology. The aim was to support the health and care sector with innovative technologies to meet the increasing demands of an aging and more chronically ill population.
Uffe Kock Wiil
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A new technology-driven concept of care. Insights from a Norwegian case-study
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019 “Think big – Start small – Scale fast” declares the Norwegian Government in launching the first National Program for developing and implementing welfare technology in local care services.
Ziglioli Gloria
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Market Integration, Choice of Technology, and Welfare [PDF]
Review of International Economics, 2010 This paper develops an international trade model where firms in a duopoly may diversify their technologies for strategic reasons. The firms face the same set of technologies given by a tradeoff between marginal costs and fixed costs, but depending on trade costs firms may choose different technologies.
Hansen, Jørgen Drud +1 more
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Nordisk Välfärdsforskning, 2019 Sammendrag Implementering av velferdsteknologi står høyt på agendaen i de nordiske landene for å imøtekomme utfordringene i helse- og omsorgssektoren. Hva som faller innenfor begrepet velferdsteknologi, er imidlertid ofte uklart.
Christian Lo +2 more
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Criteria of implementing feeding assistance robots in disability care
Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2013 This article discusses the entanglement of implementing welfare technology in disability care, and draws on ethnographic observations from a pilot project involving 30 disabled citizens from three different boroughs in Denmark.
Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen
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Agricultural technologies adoption and smallholder farmers’ welfare: Evidence from Northern Ghana
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2021 Improving the welfare of smallholder farmers through the introduction of improved technologies has gained increased attention in recent times. The focus now transcends the mere development and introduction of these farming technologies to improve ...
Abdulai Adams, Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah
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Velferdsteknologi i helse- og oppvekstyrker: Digitalt kompetansebehov i yrkesfaglig utdanning
Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2021 The fast-paced changes of the Western world community require vocational education and training (VET) that meets the future working-life needs for competence.
Solveig Dalehaug Havreberg +1 more
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Heliyon, 2020 This study explored the potential impact of rural non-farm income diversification on households' welfare and adoption of Zai-technology (a proxy for agricultural technology adoption) using primary data collected from agricultural households in the Upper ...
Gideon Danso-Abbeam +2 more
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