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This article aims to explain how the processes of acquisition of distress debt portfolios are in practice, understanding for distress both non-performing credits and the real estate assets acquired in forced execution processes. This is intended to indicate which are the main risks and legal issues that characterize these operations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurse case managers increasingly see patients with worsening health and more chronic conditions. Dealing with critically ill patients has contributed to more symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression among nurses and other healthcare professionals, research shows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses issues related to stress and stressors unique to police work and officer safety. The types of stress that commonly affect police behavior are acute and chronic stress. Police stressors include killing someone in the line of duty and the experience of witnessing a fellow officer killed.

Distress signalling according to generally accepted methods and codes has always been the main reason for human survival in sea disasters. Examines the origin of this type of communication and its connection to natural senses and channels together with the alphabets, codes and special distress signals used at sea. Reviews the evolution and transformation of the old channels through the introduction of electronic communication, and the opening of some entirely new channels. Compares the different distress channels and makes some proposals concerning new distress signals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Another significant milestone from the Executive Board and the Organizing Committee of the Asian Oncology Nursing Society (AONS) transpired last November 20-21, 2015. The 2 nd AONS Conference was held in Seoul, South Korea under the theme of "Flying the Spirits of Asian Oncology Nursing." A total of 687 delegates from USA, Canada, Australia, Romania, and Asian Region supported this groundbreaking event. The objective of this 2-day conference was to facilitate sharing of expertise in the field of oncology nursing from the academe to clinical practice and to research. The issues that have been discussed in this 2-day symposium were Professional Development of Oncology Nursing, Quality of Life, Putting Evidence into Practice, Nursing Research, and Health Insurance for Cancer Care in Asia., Competing Interests: There are no conflicts of interest.

There were numerous witnesses to the abduction of Carlesha Freeland-Gaither. Have you ever been a witness to an emergency? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]