BACKGROUND The mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale (mini-MAC) is a well-recognised, popular measure of coping in psycho-oncology and assesses five cancer-specific coping strategies. It has been suggested that these five subscales could be grouped to form the over-arching adaptive and maladptive coping subscales to facilitate the interpretation and clinical application of the scale. Despite t...

INTRODUCTION The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines recommend acupuncture as a clinically effective treatment for chronic back pain. However, there is insufficient knowledge of what factors contribute to patients' positive and negative experiences of acupuncture, and how those factors interact in terms of the acceptability of treatment. This study used patient inte...

Hand gesture, a ubiquitous feature of human interaction, facilitates communication. Gesture also facilitates new learning, benefiting speakers and listeners alike. Thus, gestures must impact cognition beyond simply supporting the expression of already-formed ideas. However, the cognitive and neural mechanisms supporting the effects of gesture on learning and memory are largely unknown. We hypot...

Website: http://www.infectiousdiseases.medicine.arizona.edu To sign into Core Lectures: outbreak and then infdis1918 There has been a merger of the disparate elements that went into University of Arizona patient care. The official name is now University of Arizona Medical Center – University Campus (formerly, UMC) and the University of Arizona – South Campus (formerly, UPH Hospital) The over ar...

One of the important parameters in undercut slopes design is the determination of the maximum stable undercut span. The maximum stable undercut span is a function of slope geometry, the strength parameters of the slope material, condition of discontinuities, underground water condition, etc. However, the desired production capacity and therefore the size of excavating equipment will sometimes a...

The deformation patterns and failure mechanisms of pressurised cavities at shallow depth are relevant to many geotechnical applications, including tunnelling horizontal directional drilling. In this paper, an experimental study a reduced-scale cavity under geostatic stress is presented, in order measure the effect length, vertical soil density on failure. X-ray computed tomography used acquire ...

In order to deeply study the mechanism of prestressed anchor anti-slide pile, an indoor model experimental device was developed, and a finite difference particle flow numerical analysis slope cable pile established based on reinforcement project in mountain road slope. Based force displacement characteristics influence prestress cable, inclination angle width column spacing landslide, height na...

In the present study, physical model tests were conducted to investigate the effect of the geogrid reinforcement on the reduction of the differential settlement in widening of a highway embankment. A water bag filled with water and placed beneath an embankment was used to simulate the soft foundation of the widened portion of the embankment in the physical model test. Water from the water bag w...