The reality bites for ‘green energy’ when the economic assessment shows it as not a viable investment. Economic assessment for projects normally uses Return on Investment (ROI), Payback Period (PBP), Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Cost (LCC) and Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA). Several studies have argued against these tools; but they are common due to lack of alternatives. To demonstrate ...

Inappropriate prescribing (IP) is a common and serious global healthcare problem in elderly people, leading to increased risk of adverse drug reactions (ADRs), polypharmacy being the main risk factor for both IP and ADRs. IP in older people is highly prevalent but preventable; hence screening tools for IP have been devised, principally Beers' Criteria and the Inappropriate Prescribing in the El...

BACKGROUND Prolonging the living-dying process with inappropriate treatment is a profoundly disturbing ethical issue for nurses in many practice areas, including the intensive care unit. Despite the frequent occurrence of such distressing events, research suggests that critical care nurses assume a limited role in end-of-life decision making and care planning. OBJECTIVES To explore the practi...

As automation increasingly takes its place in industry, especially high risk industry, it is often blamed for causing harm and increasing the chance of human error when failures do occur. I propose that the problem is not the presence of automation, but rather its inappropriate design. The problem is that the operations under normal operating conditions are performed appropriately, but there is...

malnutrition and depression are highly prevalent in the elderly and can lead to unfavorable outcomes. the aims of the current study were to determine the association between malnutrition and depression and also to find any correlation of depression with some anthropometric indices in free living elderly.in this cross-sectional study, 337 elderly subjects (193 females) were selected using cluste...

BACKGROUND Potentially inappropriate antipsychotic use in long-term care (LTC) facilities has been the focus of significant policy and clinical attention over the past 20 years. However, most initiatives aimed at reducing the use of these medications have overlooked assisted living (AL) settings. OBJECTIVE We sought to compare the prevalence of antipsychotic use (including potentially inappro...

BACKGROUND Disadvantaged older adults living in non-family situations in Toronto are more likely than older adults living in family situations to have less economic security, less social support, and less choice in housing. Older adults who live in poverty and are precariously housed are more likely to be chronically ill, to live with multiple illnesses, to have poor nutrition, high stress and ...

previous studies have indicated that there may be a relationship between the salivary fluoride concentrations and dental caries while the emphasis was on dental caries in permanent teeth. the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of dental caries and its predictors in 3-6 year-old children in tehran, iran. the other objective of this investigation was to clarify a relationship between ...

Many systems in the real world are periodic due to phenomena nature. Periodic hybrid stochastic differential equations often used model them. In many situations, it is inappropriate study whether solutions of will converge an equilibrium state (say, 0 or trivial solution) but more appropriate discuss probability distributions a stationary distribution, known as stability distribution. This pape...