OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to determine the frequency of psychiatric morbidity and to assess the quality of life of women with advanced breast cancer. METHODS The 227 women in the sample were recruited in Melbourne, Australia, and were interviewed (prior to intervention) for a randomized controlled trial of supportive-expressive group therapy. The main outcome measures were DSM-IV psychiatric ...

This paper proposes a model for the structure and content of a university World Wide Web site, by a process of: (1) identifying who the site is serving and the information needs of these individuals or groups; (2) identifying institutional information needs; (3) relating this data to the content provided; (4) presenting the content in a manner suited to the characteristics and information needs...

Using linked data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), the authors assessed the accuracy of racial/ethnic classifications in HCFA's enrollment data base (EDB) before and after the 1997 effort to update the EDB. After the update, the sensitivity of the EDB was 97 percent for white persons and 95 percent for black persons, but less than 60 percent for all other categories. The pos...

Herein, a laboratory model which allows measurement of simulated distal airway oxygen percentage at different breathing patterns is described to illustrate the shortcomings of conventional O2 devices and, in particular, the aerosol face mask with two jet nebulizers (AFM-DF) in tandem. A table showing the degree of dilution which occurred during simulation of various breathing patterns while usi...

increasing the efficiency of water use is one of the main topics of sustainable agriculture in arid and semi-arid. the use of some materials such as superabsorbent polymers increase water storage in the soil and thus reduces the water use. increase water storage in the soil to reduce the effects of drought and saline soil. in order to evaluate the effect of super absorbent polymer on survival a...

Introduction: Adipose tissue plays an important role in increasing systemic inflammation and exercise training result in modulating inflammation by decreasing adipose tissue. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of 12 weeks circuit resistance training with 40, 60 and 80 percent of one-repetition maximum (1RM) on the levels of IL-10, IL-1β and body fat percent in obese postmenopausa...

From 1995 to 1998, more than 90 percent of mid-range IPOs were charged underwriter fees, or spreads, of exactly seven percent, even though evidence suggests that economies of scale in the size of the offering should allow for lower fees. Chen and Ritter (2000) offer collusion as a possible explanation based on empirical analysis and observation. Alternatively, we investigate whether the spreads...