Researchers assert that affective responses to seemingly minor daily events have long-term implications for mental health, yet this phenomenon has rarely been investigated. In the current study, we examined how levels of daily negative affect and affective reactivity in response to daily stressors predicted general affective distress and self-reported anxiety and depressive disorders 10 years a...

BACKGROUND The Department of Health launched a national human papillomavirus immunisation programme for girls aged 12-13 years in September 2008. AIM To assess the feasibility and acceptability of implementing a school-based programme. METHOD HPV vaccination was offered over one academic year by two PCTs in 36 schools to 12-13-year-old girls, using different implementation plans. RESULTS ...

Information spreads much faster through social networking services (SNSs) than through traditional news media because users can upload data anytime, anywhere. SNSs users are likely to express their emotional status to let their friends or other users know how they feel about certain events. This is the main reason why many studies have employed social media data to uncover hidden facts or issue...

bronchial breathing were present, and the diagnosis of lobar pneumonia was made. The pulse at the time was 9? p. m. Next morning the patient's temperature was 98.6? F., and the pulse rate 52. For the next six days the temperature was of the same type, viz., 102.5? F. in the evenings, and 98.5? F. in the mornings, with corresponding changes in the pulse rate. Crisis occurred on the seventh day, ...

Estimates of healthcare utilization during an influenza pandemic are needed in order to plan for the allocation of staff and resources. The aim of this study was to assess the number, age, and arrival time of patients with influenza-like-illness (ILI), and associations between their symptoms during the 2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of electronic health records...

I would really like to work out at home. I am a 22 year old full-time college student, who also works 30 hours a week as a hair stylist. I do have some evenings a week I can work out at home for 30 minutes to an hour, but I just don't know what all there is to do without any machines, and little exercise videos on hand. I was always in sports in high school so I was in great shape, but now I am...

Results We identified 246 cardiac arrests; 154 out-of-hospital and 90 in-hospital (and 2 unknown). 66% were male and the median age was 69 years (range 11-99 years). 38% occurred during daytime, 33% during evenings and 29% at night. Over all, the primary cause was unknown in 85/246 (29%). There was a decrease in CA caused by acute coronary syndrome (ACS) from 29/117 (25%) in 2007 to 19/129 (15%...

In a test of the effects of cortisol on emotional memory, 90 men were orally administered placebo or 20 or 40 mg cortisol and presented with emotionally arousing and neutral stimuli. On memory tests administered within 1 hr of stimulus presentation, cortisol elevations caused a reduction in the number of errors committed on free-recall tasks. Two evenings later, when cortisol levels were no lon...

A Montessori Mother. By Dorothy Canfield Fisher. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1912. Pp. xiv + 24U. To an interpretation of what the Montessori idea promises to American mothers, Mrs. Fisher has brought the keen insight and vividly graceful style that have made her magazine stories so enjoyable. Returning from a prolonged stay in Rome she was immediately set upon and besought by friends, ac...

Exchanging e-mail messages is one of the most popular applications on the Internet after web access and file sharing. Email communication uses the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) thus allowing it to use the best feature in the internet – adaptability to any available bandwidth. From a quality of service perspective, an unspecified bit rate is sufficient for e-mail as an application. In this...