The Top 30 Rising Stars project was established as a unique partnership between Saint Elizabeth Health Care, Toronto Public Health and Women’s College Hospital to support nursing leadership succession planning in the community, public health and ambulatory care sectors. The project also addressed the shortage of emerging leadership talent and an aging nursing workforce. It brought together 10 h...

• Restructuring of healthcare governance and professional regulatory approaches; • Changes to organizational care delivery systems and the scopes of practice of nurses and other disciplines; • The aging of the nursing leadership and the lack of concerted succession planning; • Funding challenges and cost-containment initiatives in light of increasing service demands; • The focus on patient safe...

Agriculture remains vital in ensuring the food security of developing economies like India, yet increasing rural-urban migration, an aging farm population, and waning interest rural youth agriculture are emerging concerns. This paper focuses on aspirations parents their children agriculture, challenges they confront, potential solutions. We draw qualitative data from two sites Southern differen...

Condition monitoring systems are increasingly installed in wind turbine generators with the goal of providing component-specific information to the wind farm operator and hence increase equipment availability through maintenance and operating actions based on this information. In some cases, however, the economic benefits of such systems are unclear. A quantitative measure of these benefits may...

This paper proposes a two-phase metaheuristic approach to planning daily farm work for agriculture production corporations. The two-phase metaheuristic contains the optimization of resources assignment and searching schedule based on Genetic Algorithm and hybrid Petri nets model. In the experiment, the effect on optimizing the resource assignment and priority list, initializing population of GA...

The family farm has been the pillar of rural society for decades, stabilising economies and strengthening social cultural traditions. Nonetheless, numbers across Europe are declining as farmers endeavour to overcome issues climate change, viability, structural change intergenerational succession. Issues around viability a lack innovative agricultural practices play key role in succession decisi...