OBJECTIVES Studies often fail to adequately test the causal relationship between volunteering and well-being. Yet the media and empirical research have focused attention on the impact of volunteering on the well-being of elderly persons. This study addresses two questions: First, does volunteering improve the psychological and physical well-being of elderly persons? Second, do elderly volunteer...

Factory farming continues to grow around the world as a low-cost way of producing animal products for human consumption. However, many of the practices associated with intensive animal farming have been criticized by public health professionals and animal welfare advocates. The aim of this essay is to raise three independent moral concerns with factory farming, and to explain why the practices ...

Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) is usually found in the newborn period and now frequently being diagnosed prenatally on fetal ultrasound. Majority of the cases are found during the first few days of life, with less than 10% being diagnosed beyond the age of two year. Females are ten times more likely to be affected then males.[1] We herein report a case of benign and infected sacrococcygeal terat...

A seven years old girl presented with history of sudden onset of generalized body weakness to an extent that she was not able to move any body part. On thorough history it was revealed that she was given intramuscular injection lincomycin at private clinic which lead to neuromuscular paralysis of whole body. This antibiotic is currently not being used in humans and being only used as veterinary...

BACKGROUND The relationship between boyhood exposure to physical abuse, sexual abuse, or to a battered mother and subsequent risk of impregnating a teenage girl has not previously been examined. METHODS In a retrospective cohort study set in a primary care clinic for adult members of a large health maintenance organization, questionnaire responses from 4127 men were analyzed. Respondents prov...

One of the key elements in the testing of the Standard-Model description of CP violation through B-meson decays is the direct determination of the angle γ of the unitarity triangle in a variety of ways. We give a brief overview of the implications of the current B-factory data for flavour-symmetry strategies, and discuss new, theoretically clean methods employing pure tree decays of neutral Bd,...

Orient and oriented character with the rare features and brilliant beauty attract the romantic writers. This attractiveness becomes more widespread in the works of creators of Russian historical novels particularly in long story “Sins by whom?“. This work has integrated in it several conflicting objectives. Attempting to depict realistic image in the work with the evident tension to...

OBJECTIVE To elucidate virus spread from siblings with varicella to other family members and environmental objects in a family setting before and after onset of the disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS Among a family consisting of five members, a boy developed varicella and the remaining two siblings developed the disease 17 and 18 days after onset of the index case. Swab samples from throats and h...

Epispadias is a congenital anomaly in which the urethral meatus opens dorsally on top of penis, medial to glands, or with absent bifid clitoris females. It often occurs as part complex called bladder extrophy epispadias (BEEC) along exposed and pelvic brim. The diagnosis clinical identifications various component anomalies. Although this condition rare it present wide spectrum deformities range...

Two experiments are reported which examine how manipulations of visual attention affect speakers' linguistic choices regarding word order, verb use and syntactic structure when describing simple pictured scenes. Experiment 1 presented participants with scenes designed to elicit the use of a perspective predicate (The man chases the dog/The dog flees from the man) or a conjoined noun phrase sent...