Optimizing the quality of medical care at the end of life has achieved national status as an important health care goal. Palliative care, a comprehensive approach to treating the physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs of patients and their families facing life-limiting illnesses, requires the coordinated efforts of a multidisciplinary group of caregivers. Understanding the basic principles ...

as a private domain, the family is subordinate to the characteristics of private law. on the other hand, as the only major authority, the government has the responsibility of supporting all individuals by resorting to civil and criminal law. however, by taking the public aspect of the criminal law into consideration, its basis is on the lack of need of its presence when facing the family, the b...

The paper presents selected issues of German foreign energy policy in terms determinants-goals-instruments. factors taken into account the process creating are discussed: structure primary consumption and domestic production, degree dependence on imports diversification supply sources, transport routes import infrastructure. development goals were presented as well main instruments for implemen...

The emergence of multimedia applications requires appropriate management and control activities to be provided and organized in an integrated framework. This paper presents an architectural approach for the modeling of service activation processing in a multimedia environment. In particular, activation processes complying with this model provide the user with the capability of devising, creatin...

Analytical goals are the quantitative requirements that the product must meet. Goals must be specific and have a clear success/failure criterion. Ideally, goals should include a protocol and data analysis method. There are three categories of analytical goals. First, clinical acceptability is the total analytical error and total analytical error sources. Second, there are a variety of regulator...

Humic substances (HSs) have considerable effects on soil fertility and crop productivity owing to their unique physiochemical and biochemical properties, and play a vital role in establishing biotic and abiotic interactions within the plant rhizosphere. A comprehensive understanding of the mode of action and tissue distribution of HS is, however, required, as this knowledge could be useful for ...

Water losses associated with inefficiencies in the underground water distribution system are not only causing revenue losses for the local water boards but also significantly negatively affect a country’s national water reserves. Even though assisting in defining the problem and in devising remediation strategies for it, posterior analysis of the causes of such inefficiencies are far from being...

Design new urban spaces is a complex process that extends for a long period, goes through several stages, and addresses several issues, including defining the urban programme and devising the plan layout in all its details, such as the street network, the neighbourhood identity, the city block typologies, and so on. Developing solutions for problems on each stage and evaluating the qualities of...