Vegetative state refers to the neurocognitive status of individuals with severe brain damage, in whom physiologic functions (sleep-wake cycles, autonomic control, and breathing) persist, but awareness (including all cognitive function and emotion) is abolished
Procedures that avoid use of open, invasive surgery in favor of closed or local surgery. These generally involve use of laparoscopic devices and remote-controlled manipulation of instruments with indirect observation of the surgical field through an endoscope or similar device
--subdivision Waste minimization under types of industries, industrial processes, facilities, and institutions, e.g. Construction industry--Waste minimization; Metals--Finishing--Waste minimization; Universities and colleges--Waste minimization
Here are entered works on the movement that advocates the passage of legislation requiring the payment of wages higher than legally mandated minimums to employees of companies doing business under public contracts
Minimum wage -- Australia -- Victoria. : Arbitration and conciliation in Australasia : the legal wage in Victoria & New Zealand / by Mary Theresa Rankin ; with an introduction by J. Shield Nicholson
1916
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Minimum wage -- California : State minimum wage laws in practice / Felix Frankfurter, Mary W. Dewson [and] John R. Commons
1924
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Minimum wage -- Case studies : Setting a floor on earnings : are current efforts helping or hurting minimum wage earners? / Brendan D. Dooley