This article reports findings from interviews that explored the meanings occupational therapists attach to independence as a value and a therapeutic goal in interactions with elderly clients. Through a historical review of the literature, we trace the changing use of this term and identify two analytically distinct concepts associated with it: independence as self-reliance in activity and indep...

OBJECTIVE To illuminate findings of the survey of the health status of Gypsies and Travellers by exploring their health-related beliefs and experiences. DESIGN Qualitative study of a purposive subsample from in-depth interviews using framework analysis. SETTING The homes or alternative community settings of the participants in five geographically dispersed study locations in England. PART...

ith great interest I read the report by Weissman et al. (1) regarding ntravascular ultrasound (IVUS) analysis of polymer-based aclitaxel-eluting stents. The investigators stated in the text that positive remodeling assessed as the absolute increase in the xternal elastic membrane volume over time tended to be slightly ore prominent with the TAXUS stent (7.66 48.64 mm vs. 12.29 36.05 mm, respect...

A memory model is some description of how memory behaves in a parallel computer system. While there is consensus that sequential consistency [Lamport 1979] is the strongest memory model, nobody seems to have tried to identify the weakest memory model. This thesis concerns itself with precisely this problem. We cannot hope to identify the weakest memory model unless we specify a minimal set of p...

In biomedical research lack of trust is seen as a great threat that can severely jeopardise the whole biomedical research enterprise. Practices, such as informed consent, and also the administrative and regulatory oversight of research in the form of research ethics committees and Institutional Review Boards, are established to ensure the protection of future research subjects and, at the same ...

Resilience research with war-affected populations has long conceptualized resilience as the absence of psychopathology and operationalized it by use of standardized measures. However, literature on resilience increasingly highlights the importance of also including indicators of positively valued functioning as well as contextually sensitive indicators of resilience. This study used a participa...

We posit a female advantage in the relationship between self-reliance and leadership evaluations. We test this prediction in four studies. First, using multi-rater evaluations of young managers, we find that self-reliance relates positively to leadership evaluations for women, but not for men. Next, in each of three experiments, we manipulate the gender of a leader and the agentic trait he or s...

This paper evaluates Mexico's past and present development strategies in terms of their equity and employment implications. It concludes that the current neoliberal stabilization efforts are likely to result in increased income concentration, also leading to the dampening of aggregate demand and economic activities. Given the gravity of the current crisis in Mexico, the paper argues for the urg...

OBJECTIVE To gain a greater understanding of masculinity and its potential influence on health-improving behavior in midlife and older African American (AA) men. METHODS Forty-nine AA men aged 45-88 years completed in-depth interviews to ascertain their perspectives on masculinity, how masculine identity in this population might be influenced by age and physical activity level, or how it migh...

A hierarchical hidden Markov model (HHMM) based approach of product named entity recognition (NER) from Chinese free text is presented in this paper. Characteristics and challenges in product NER is also investigated and analyzed deliberately compared with general NER. Within a unified statistical framework, the approach we proposed is able to make probabilistically reasonable decisions to a gl...