The recent soaring cost of many basic foods worldwide has forced a new focus on many areas of policy and in Europe the issue of genetically modified crops has attracted renewed media and wider interest. The reason is that the European Union has proved resistant to almost all perceived or promoted advantages of GM crops. Environmental groups opposed to the technology gained early advantage becau...

Background: Hong Kong's rapidly ageing population, characterised by one of the longest life expectancies and the lowest fertility rate in the world, is likely to drive long-term care (LTC) expenditure higher. This study aims to identify key cost drivers and derive quantitative estimates of Hong Kong's LTC expenditure to 2036. Methods: We parameterised a macro actuarial simulation with data from...

Objective: The objective of INTERLINKS, a project that is co-financed by the 7th Framework Programme of DG Research, is to construct and validate a general model to describe, analyse and improve long-term care (LTC) systems for older people from a European perspective. The project is co-ordinated by the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research (Vienna) and carried out by 14 resear...

The influence of low-temperature conditioning (LTC) treatment on chilling injury, glycine betaine content, and energy metabolism in loquat fruit at 1 °C storage was investigated. The results indicated that LTC treatment significantly reduced chilling injury index, ion leakage, and malondialdehyde content in loquat fruit. Betaine aldehyde hydrogenase (BADH) activity and endogenous glycine betain...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effect of long-term care (LTC) insurance on nursing home use. DESIGN Longitudinal analysis, 1998 to 2006 waves of the Health Retirement Study. SETTING Community-dwelling nationally representative sample. PARTICIPANTS Nineteen thousand one hundred seventy adults aged 50 and older, 1998 wave. METHODS Two groups of respondents were created at baseline: those wit...

OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics and practice patterns of family physicians who regularly treat long-term care (LTC) residents in order to inform quality improvement strategies. DESIGN Cross-sectional study involving a 2005 province-wide census of LTC residents' charts linked to additional health care administrative databases. SETTING All LTC homes in Ontario. PARTICIPANTS Reside...

This paper describes the design of a load tap changer (LTC) control for up to four parallel transformers using a modified circulating current approach. The LTC control discussed in this paper was implemented using programmable logic, math functions, and IEC 61850 communications over fiber-optic Ethernet. One LTC control is associated with each transformer. The current angle from each LTC contro...

Elevated numbers of primitive Philadelphia chromosome-positive (Ph+) progenitors, including long-term culture-initiating cells (LTC-IC) as well as colony-forming cells (CFC), have been previously described in the blood of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in chronic phase with high white blood cell counts. In the present study, which focused primarily on an analysis of circulating pr...

BACKGROUND Hip fractures (HFs) represent an important cause of morbidity and mortality among adults in long-term care (LTC), but lack of detailed epidemiological data poses challenges to intervention planning. We aimed to determine the incidence of HFs among permanent LTC residents in Saskatchewan between 2008 and 2012, using linked, provincial administrative health databases, exploring associa...

Turkey is transitioning from an ageing to aged population at a fast pace. This process requires immediate policy and practice planning actionable strategies. Formulating implementing such policies needs acknowledge parallel demographic socio-economic changes ensure adequate resources appropriate services are developed enhance the growing older population’s quality of life wellbeing. Limited lon...