CONDITIONS FOR MENTAL RESISTANCE IN DIFFICULT SITUATIONS

Interrogating Assumptions about “ Difficult ” Patients and Situations

The phenomenon of health care professionals labeling patients as “difficult” is not limited to psychiatric settings and literature. In the broader medical literature, patients have been described in similar terms as “hateful” [3] or “heartsink” [4]. The description of this phenomenon in different health care settings during decades of practice and as explored in the health professions literatur...

Difficult Image Conditions

In this report we extend the recently proposed DCT-mod2 feature extraction technique (which utilizes polynomial coefficients derived from 2D DCT coefficients obtained from horizontally & vertically neighbouring blocks) via the use of various windows and diagonally neighbouring blocks. We also evaluate enhanced PCA, where traditional PCA feature extraction is combined with DCT-mod2. Results usin...

Obstetric difficult airway guidelines - decision-making in critical situations.

Chemotherapeutic resistance: surviving stressful situations.

Chemotherapeutic regimens involve the systemic administration of genotoxic compounds that induce cancer cell death via well-established DNA damage response signaling networks. Less understood is how the treatment of other cell types within the tumor microenvironment affects the therapeutic response. Here we discuss recent work that shows that tumor-adjacent cells can respond to genotoxic stress...

Consistency of sentence intelligibility across difficult listening situations.

PURPOSE The extent to which a sentence retains its level of spoken intelligibility relative to other sentences in a list under a variety of difficult listening situations was examined. METHOD The strength of this sentence effect was studied using the Central Institute for the Deaf Everyday Speech sentences and both generalizability analysis (Experiments 1 and 2) and correlation (Analyses 1 an...