Translation and Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool into Japanese: A Preliminary Report

Background: There is a need for tools in primary care to support clinicians to identify patients with unmet palliative care needs.The Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT) is concise and covers most conditions in primary care settings.However, the SPICT was not available in Japanese.Methods: The translation and cultural adaptation

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Scalable Task Assignment for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams

This work deals with the development of a dynamic task assignment strategy for heterogeneous multi-robot teams in typical real world scenarios.The strategy must be efficiently scalable to support problems of increasing complexity with minimum designer intervention.To this isidor oreiller end, we have selected a very simple auction-based strategy, w

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Unveiling an odd fate after death: The isolated Eneolithic cranium discovered in the Marcel Loubens Cave (Bologna, Northern Italy).

An isolated human cranium, dated to the early Eneolithic period, was discovered in 2015 at the top of a vertical shaft in the natural Marcel Loubens gypsum Cave goveda juha (Bologna area, northern Italy).No other anthropological or archaeological remains were found inside the cave.In other caves of the same area anthropic and funerary use are attes

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