OBJECTIVE This study aimed to develop a practice guideline for a structured and consensus-based approach to relieve symptoms of pneumonia in patients with dementia in nursing homes. METHODS A five-round Delphi study involving a panel consisting of 24 experts was conducted. An initial version of the practice guideline was developed with leading representatives of Dutch University Medical Cente...

Bonobos (Pan paniscus; n = 4), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes; n = 12), gorillas (Gorilla gorilla; n = 8), and orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus; n = 6) were presented with 2 cups (1 baited) and given visual or auditory information about their contents. Visual information consisted of letting subjects look inside the cups. Auditory information consisted of shaking the cup so that the baited cup produced...

Thermal conductivity is one of the key parameters in the figure of merit of thermoelectric materials. Over the past decade, most progress in thermoelectric materials has been made by reducing their thermal conductivity while preserving their electrical properties. The phonon scattering mechanisms involved in these strategies are reviewed here and divided into three groups, including (i) disorde...

In this paper, we investigated the parameters for determining the degree of pronunciation improvement by using the formant comparison method. Many speech parameters have been studied to identify inaccurate pronunciation features. Generally, the method of grasping the inaccurate pronunciation is analyzed by using the change of pitch and formant. Formants have various information such as the indi...

Tetrahedrite-based ($\textrm{Cu}_{12}\textrm{Sb}_{4}\textrm{S}_{13}$) materials are candidates for good thermoelectric generators due to their intrinsic, very low thermal conductivity and high power factor. One of the current limitations is virtual absence tetrahedrites exhibiting n--type conductivity. In this work, first-principles calculations carried out study Mg-doped tetrahedrite, $\textrm...

Clathrates are a materials class with an extremely low phonon thermal conductivity, which is key ingredient for high thermoelectric conversion efficiency. Here, we present study on the type-I clathrate La$_{1.2}$Ba$_{6.8}$Au$_{5.8}$Si$_{38.8}\square_{1.4}$ directed at lowering conductivity even further by forming mesoscopic wires out of it. Our hypothesis that interaction low-energy rattling mo...

according to high important of the issue and the goal of what factors led to crime rise and criminal in shadgholikhan district, the article reviews the crime rise and criminal in this slum, in qom. the research methodology is (interviews and field observations) and library. 380 criminals were arrested in sheikhabad post (population size) and were asked and interviewed during 10 months. to asses...

Transient cardiac arrest due to cardiac vessel bundle occlusion was used to produce a rat model of spontaneous and audiogenic seizures. Among the rats, spontaneous seizures were present in 64%, and audiogenic seizures could be evoked in 86%, during two weeks of survival after cardiac arrest, by exposure to a loud sound produced by rattling keys, beginning one day after the post-ischaemic injury...