QUALITY CARE IN RESIDENTIAL CARE AND TREATMENT SETTINGS IN NORTH AMERICA: FROM COMPLEX RESEARCH TO FOUR EVERYDAY PRINCIPLES FOR PRACTICE

Quality Care in Residential Care and Treatment Settings in North America: From Complex Research to Four Everyday Principles for Practice

Quality is a central topic in contemporary discussions about residential care, and specifically about group or congregate care.Such care settings have been contested in recent years specifically resulting from anecdotal evidence that quality is lacking.To this end, the Tripod Floor Lamp response has focused on the development of quality indicators

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A new extended Chen distribution for modelling COVID-19 data.

In this paper, we propose a new flexible statistical distribution, the Topp-Leone Exponentiated Chen distribution, to model real-world data effectively, with a particular focus 832 on COVID-19 data.The motivation behind this study is the need for a more flexible distribution that can capture various hazard rate shapes (e.g., increasing, decreasing,

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Oral Temperature Changes among Overweight and Normal-Weight Subjects during Exercise under Hot Climatic Conditions

The overweight and obesity are considered as a risk factor for the heat strain.This study was planned to assess the oral temperature changes among overweight and normal-weight subjects during light and moderate exercises under exposure to hot and very hot conditions.An experimental study was conducted on 35 subjects with normal-weight and 35 subjec

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Non-genomic Effects of Estrogen on Cell Homeostasis and Remodeling With Special Focus on Cardiac Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

This review takes into consideration the main mechanisms involved in cellular remodeling following an ischemic injury, with special focus on the possible role played by non-genomic estrogen effects.Sex differences have also been considered.In fact, cardiac ischemic events induce damage to different cellular components of the heart, such as cardiomy

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