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Background. We investigated the concurrent use of conventional rehabilitations and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies for the long-term management of children with developmental disorders (DDs). Methods. The parents or caregivers of 533 children with DDs (age range, 1-19 years) who visited the rehabilitation centers were surveyed using in depth face-to-face interviews. Resul...

BACKGROUND The clinical benefits associated with the use of the bispectral index (BIS) to monitor the depth of sedation during flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FFB) are questionable. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the added value in terms of procedural safety and patients' awareness of monitoring sedation depth using the BIS compared to conventional clinical judgment alone in patients undergoing FFB...

OBJECTIVE Many studies have reported that periodontal disease is associated with diabetes, but its relation with impaired fasting glucose (IFG) has been understudied. This study investigated the relationship between chronic periodontitis, IFG, and diabetes in the U.S. population. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III, aged ≥ 20 ye...

The aim of this article is to examine how bereaved parents who lost children in terrorist attacks in Israel perceive the terrorist attack perpetrators. Forty bereaved parents were interviewed using a semistructured in-depth interview. The content analysis revealed a typology of reactions to the Arab attackers that included perceiving them as objects of anger, hate, and revenge; as demons; as ne...

Coffee is a typical drink with substantial increasing in global. With the growing popularity of coffee consumption, raw materials of coffee bean are mostly imported and are increased year by year in Taiwan. The study is firstly based on a qualitative research method of an in-depth interview, discussion, field investigation, and analyzing environment of coffee industry in Taiwan to realize the p...

Internal controls play an important role in overall effectiveness of information systems security. A theoretical framework of means-fundamental objectives for internal controls in information systems security context is presented. Data was collected through in-depth interview of 52 IT managers about their values in defining internal controls. A total of 68 objectives are identified which are or...