Bedrails Bedrails used on the beds of adult hospital patients or care home residents are also called side rails, cotsides or safety rails. This article uses the word ‘bedrails’ as it is the clearest term and because patients prefer it (NPSA, 2007c). Bedrail use is common in health and social care settings, with reported prevalence in UK hospitals of 8%–39%, and in nursing homes internationally ...

Solomon Asch was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, 1958-1960 and 1970; a Senior Fellow of the U.S. Public Health Service, 1959-1960; and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1976-77). He was awarded the Nicholas Murray Butler Medal from Columbia University in 1962 and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Ass...

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Accessible online at: www.karger.com/oph The aim of peer-reviewed biomedical journals is to publish accurate, new and relevant information on which researchers, medical doctors or the larger public can rely and build upon. Authors, reviewers and editors of such journals have responsibility for monitoring and maintaining high ethical standards and for trying to avoid any form of misconduct. This...

IN HIS FILM ADAPTATION of Hamlet (1996), Kenneth Branagh under­ scores the confessional themes present in the play by setting two scenes in a Roman Catholic confessional box. In the first scene, Po­ lonius interrogates Ophelia about her relationship with Ham­ let-an interaction that reinforces the common association of the confessional with an obsession over female sexuality. In the second scen...

A Note on Handling Information Known to the Opinion Preparer A Note on Handling Excluded Opinions § 9:1 The Three-Set Opinion Pattern § 9:2 Identifying and Defining the Party Whose Status Is at Issue A Note on Entity Formation § 9:3 Opinions as to Entity Status A Note on the Significance of Status Opinions § 9:3.1 Incorporated Status, Organization, and Valid Existence [A] Incorporation [B] Orga...

Given the incessant growth of documents describing the opinions of different people circulating on the web, including Web 2.0 has made it possible to give an opinion on any product in the net. In this paper, we examine the various opinions expressed in the tweets and classify them (positive, negative or neutral) by using the emoticons for the Bayesian method and adjectives and adverbs for the T...

A model of reputation is presented in which agents share and aggregate their opinions, and observe the way in which their opinions effect the opinions of others. A method is proposed that supports the deliberative process of combining opinions into a group’s reputation. The reliability of agents as opinion givers are measured in terms of the extent to which their opinions differ from that of th...

Fine-grained subjectivity analysis has been the subject of much recent research attention. As a result, the field has gained a number of working definitions, technical approaches and manually annotated corpora that cover many facets of subjectivity. Little work has been done, however, on one aspect of fine-grained opinions – the specification and identification of opinion topics. In particular,...