BACKGROUND The aims were to investigate cross-culturally the subjective experience of long-term psychiatric patients to determine whether or not they would define their current life situation predominantly in terms of illness. METHOD The design is a two-by-two comparison by ethnicity (Latino and Euro-American) and diagnosis (schizophrenia and unipolar depression) of 80 subjects for DSM-III-R ...

Introduction: The major symptoms of fibromyalgia have been shown to severely impact everyday activities. As a consequence, many women have problems remaining in a work role. Not being able to fulfil valued roles influences quality of life. Moreover, consequences in terms of high costs in compensation for reduced work ability are also of importance for society. Today, the number of young women d...

Aim and Objectives: To increase the understanding of next of kin’s life situation in the context of supporting persons who are long term ill, disabled and/or older by describing their experienced burden and quality of life and also the relationship between QoL, burden and socioeconomic variables. Methods: Cross-sectional, descriptive and correlative design. Eighty-four next of kin answered two ...

Pervasive computing is a paradigm that focuses on availability and non-intrusive integration of computing services into everyday life. Context awareness is the basic principle of pervasive computing. The important part of high-level context awareness is situation awareness – the ability to detect and reason about the real-life situations. The specifications of situations are often carried out m...

A prototype for cyber identity is presented in a computational framework based on Barwise and Devlin’s situation theory. We use real-life examples in identifying an individual to create what we call an id-situation; an id-situation is where an id-action is performed. We use the Semantic Web standards to represent these id-situations from our real-life examples. The examples include identifying ...

preoperative diagnosis of an airway obstruction should alert anesthetist to a potentially life threatening situation. intubation of the trachea while the patient is awa- ke or tra~heostomy under local anesthesia is a most useful technique and safty method in induction of anesthesia where problems are anticipated during the induction or g e ne r a l anesthesia.