The Art of Enduring Contradictory Goals: Challenges in the Institutional Co‐construction of a ‘Good Death’

This paper focuses on the normative notion of ‘good death’, its practical relevance as a frame of reference for ‘death work’ procedures in institutional elder care in Switzerland and the ways in which it may be challenged within migrant ‘dying trajectories’. In contemporary palliative care, the concept of ‘good death’ focuses on the ideal of an autonomous dying person, cared for under a specialised biomedical authority. Transferred to the nursing home context, characterised by long-term basic care for the very old under conditions of scarce resources, the notion of ‘good death’ is broken down into ready-to-use, pragmatic elements of daily routines. At the same time, nursing homes are increasingly confronted with socially and culturally diversified populations. Based on ethnographic findings, we give insight into current practices of institutional ‘death work’ and tensions arising between contradicting notions of a ‘good death’, by referring to decision-making, life-prolonging measures, notions on food/feeding and the administration of sedative painkillers.

Construction of a precise early Eocene orbital cyclostratigraphy for DSDP Site 80-550 from the Goban Spur, North Atlantic

We constructed a precise early Eocene orbital cyclostratigraphy for DSDP Site 550 (Leg 80, Goban Spur, North Atlantic) utilizing precession related cycles as represented in a high resolution X-Ray Fluorescence based Barium core log. Based on counting of those cycles, we constrain the exact timing of two volcanic ash layers in Site 550 which correlate to ashes +19 and -17 of the Fur Formation in Denmark. The ashes, relative to the onset of the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), are offset by 862 kyr and 672 kyr, respectively. When combined with published absolute ages for ash -17, the absolute age for the onset of the PETM is consistent with astronomically calibrated ages. Using the current absolute age of 28.02 Ma for the Fish Canyon Tuff (FCT) standard for calibrating the absolute age of ash -17 is consistent with tuning option 2 in the astronomically calibrated Paleocene time scale of Westerhold et al. (2008) [Westerhold, T., Röhl, U., Raffi, I., Fornaciari, E., Monechi, S., Reale, V., Bowles, J., and Evans, H.F., 2008, Astronomical calibration of the Paleocene time: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 257, p. 377-403]. Using the recently recalibrated absolute age of 28.201 Ma for the FCT standard is consistent with tuning option 3 in the astronomically calibrated Paleocene time scale. The new results do not support the existence of any additional 405-kyr cycle in the early Paleocene astronomically tuned time scale.

Effects of channel relocation and proposed bridge construction on floodflows of the Catawba River near Marion, North Carolina /

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Stick to reality and a dream : celebrating America's young readers : a lecture for the Year of the Young Reader, presented on November 17, 1988 at the Library of Congress /

"Children's Literature Center lecture series, no. 3"--T.p. verso.

The manner of securing all sorts of buildings from fire, or, A treatise upon the construction of arches made with bricks and plaister, called flat-arches, and of a roof without timber called a bricked-roof : with the addition of some letters that have passed between the Count of Espie and Peter Wyche Esq. on this subject : adorned with two copper-plates serving to illustrate the whole work /

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Guidelines for the relocation, closing, consolidation, or construction of post offices : hearing before the International Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services Subcommittee of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, October 7, 1999.

Shipping list no.: 2000-0251-P.

Hints on imposition. An illustrated guide for printer and pressman in the construction of book-forms. Also other matters pertaining to letter-press printing.

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Unity in variety, as deduced from the vegetable kingdom; being an attempt at developing that oneness which is discoverable in the habits, mode of growth, and principle of construction of all plants.

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Fifteenth census of the United States: 1930. Construction industry, 1929. State series ... Statistics for state, counties and principal cities.

At head of title: U.S. Department of Commerce. R. P. Lamont, secretary. Bureau of the Census, W.M. Steuart, director.

Defense highway act of 1941. Hearing before the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, first session, on S. 1580, a bill to supplement the Federal aid road act, approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations during the National emergency declared by the President on May 27, 1941, for the immediate construction of roads urgently needed for the National defense, and for other purposes, June 4, 1941 ...

Kenneth McKellar, chairman.

History of the St. Mary's Falls ship canal, showing the early efforts which were made to secure its construction, with a record of the business of the canal from its opening until the present time ...

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The ABC of carp culture. A treatise on the German, or European carp; its wonderful growth & fecundity, instructions for its propagation and culture as an article of food for sale; also minute directions for the construction of artificial lakes and ponds, comprising those from only a few yards in area to ponds and lakes covering acres /

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The general laws of Pennsylvania from the year 1700, to April 1849 : chronologically arranged : with notes and references to all the decisions of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, giving construction to said laws : and a copius and minute index /

Includes index.

Military construction appropriations for fiscal year 1998 : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, on H.R. 2016 ....

Includes index.