Riding high
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Aspecial scheme has been set up for children with learning disabilities at the Prudhoe Hospital in Northumberland. The Riding ward is an in-patient unit designed to assess and treat 14 young people aged up to 19 years. It is staffed by 22 full-time equivalent nursing staff together with a comprehensive support team including social workers and occupational therapists. Nurses form the links between home and hospital and are continually involved in all aspects of care and counselling. Staff also treat out-patients with similar needs and the ward is seen as a focus for many families.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1993
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Future fire codes
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Performance-based fire protection allows protection engineers to quantitatively estimate the size and breadth of a fire based on a structure's features. Performance-based fire protection integrates a number of design parameters applied to a building's design process, including calculation methods and computer model simulations. Protection engineers apply performance-based fire protecting engineering using model code equivalency provisions.
Publication Name: Civil Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0885-7024
Year: 1998
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Does a sugar bear bite? Suge Knight and his posse
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Suge Knight manages his lucrative company Death Row Records, his friends, his dogs, his rivals, and his recording stars with the same laid-back confidence and unceasing work, that always seems to succeed. The problems and politics of Knight, his goals, and the recording business, are discussed.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
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ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1996
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