OBJECTIVE To determine whether the prevalence of mental disorders and related factors increase as advanced cancer patients get closer to death. METHOD Baseline, cross-sectional data from 289 patients who were assessed prior to their death as part of a multi-site, longitudinal, prospective cohort study of advanced cancer patients. Major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, panic ...

In this paper results of a water quality modelling framework for riverine shallow lakes are presented. Based on investigations of interrelations between variables of freshwater quality by advanced time series analysis methods a process model for phosphorus remobilisation from lake sediments was developed. For predicting the changing water quality of shallow riverine lakes caused by internal pol...

Nearly one quarter million Americans die with or of advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) each year. Many patients die after a prolonged functional decline that is accompanied by much suffering. Though difficult prognostically and emotionally, anticipation of death opens the door to planning and preparing for terminal care. Epidemiologists have begun to identify characteristics ...

Submitted for the MAR05 Meeting of The American Physical Society High-resolution characterization of advanced interconnect and packaging architectures SHRIRAM RAMANATHAN, Components Research, Intel Corp., EVAN PICKETT, Intel, PATRICK MORROW, Intel, YONGMEI LIU, Intel, RAJEN DIAS, Intel — Characterization of buried interfaces in advanced interconnect and packaging structures is a critical challe...

ZUSAMEN-FASSUNG:  Die oben angefuerte Erlaeuterung und Dis­kussion umfasst (I)- normale Entwicklung ein­zelner Hauptkomponente des menschlichen Immunmechanismus, ( 2) Faktoren, die moegli­cherweise fetalen Immunsystem aktivieren, (3) Faktoren, welche die Entwicklung des Immun­systems stoeren koennen.  REFERENCES 

Treatment of locally advanced pancreatic cancer is challenging. Despite continuing research, effective treatments continue to be elusive with median survival of only 8-12 months. Treatment options for locally advanced pancreatic cancer include radiation therapy, concurrent chemoradiation or chemotherapy. It is felt that radiation therapy is a suboptimal treatment as most of patients will die of...

an experiment was conducted in algerian desert goats to study the effect of age and season on blood biochemical and mineral profile during different physiological stages of the goats. serum ca, mg and na levels were significantly high at birth and decreases as the age advanced. the season had a significant effect on the decreased levels of ca, mg and k and inversely on the increased levels of n...

ausser der traditionellen nutzung der geothermalen energie sind in jungster zeit neue erkenntnisse und projekte in ausarbeitung, die fur die zukunft ausserst wichtig sein konnen. bei einigen dieser projekte hat man bereits einige sehr positive ergebnisse erzielt. ausserdem wurde klar, das die ausgaben fur exploration,und expleitaion wirtscnaftlich ohneweiteres vsrtretbar sind,j•a sogar in hinbl...