social setting and medical politics of late eighteenth-century Manchester and its Infirmary. With the late publication of his text, argues Pickstone, Percival tried to defend a, by then threatened, civico-medical virtue ethic, in the tradition of Bishop Joseph Butler. Robert Baker finally complements this with a detailed analysis of Percival's code as such. Arguing in particular against Ivan Wa...

1 There is a growing and important need for large-scale characterisation of dog 2 behaviour, for example to conduct genetic analyses or to assess welfare. An extensive 3 number of standardised tests and questionnaires are used for this, but few focus on the 4 normal behaviour in situations which are frequently encountered in the everyday life 5 of companion dogs. The aim of this study was to de...

In human societies biological processes vital for man's survival acquire social and cultural significance. Intake of food, sexual intercourse or elimination physiological phenomena which are universal for the entire living world become institutions regulated by cultural values and social rules.... Human beings experience hunger for food and sexual desire, but culture and society dictate to the ...

Aim To determine and compare the relevance of Piaget's cognitive principles among 4- to 7-year-old parented and orphan children in Belagavi City, Karnataka, India. Materials and methods This study was conducted on 240 children between the ages of 4 to 7 years who were equally divided into two groups of 120 parented and 120 orphan children. These were subdivided into four groups of 30 children...

clusions as circumspect as possible. The plan of the book is moreover admirably adapted for reaching independent conclusions by analytical and conscientious readers. Basic facts in the physiology and pharmacology of alcohol are first presented. Its effects when used in excess are then discussed both specifically and as a predisposing factor in the production of pathologic processes. This is fol...

CONTEXT Drug administration in the hospital setting is the last barrier before a possible error reaches the patient. OBJECTIVES We aimed to analyze the prevalence and nature of administration error rate detected by the observation method. DATA SOURCES Embase, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library from 1966 to December 2011 and reference lists of included studies. STUDY SELECTION Observational studies...

1. Aneni EC, Roberson LL, Maziak W, Agatston AS, Feldman T, et al. (2014) A Systematic Review of Internet-Based Worksite Wellness Approaches for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Management: Outcomes, Challenges & Opportunities. PLoS ONE 9(1): e83594. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083594 Citation: The PLOS ONE Staff (2014) Correction: A Systematic Review of InternetBased Worksite Wellness Approaches for ...

OBJECTIVE To develop and test a utilization review screening tool for use in European hospitals. SETTING In 1993 a group of researchers financed by a European Union grant reviewed the use of utilization review in Europe. They quickly noticed a lack of specifically designed instruments able to take into account the health care and cultural differences across Europe, and available for use in di...

Following a review of the clinical trials of reboxetine, a new nonadrenegic reuptake inhibitor antidepressant, this paper presents a heuristic theoretical framework to better understand selective antidepressant action. For over three decades, the dominant views of antidepressant action have seen these agents active across all constitutional types and regardless of social setting. An increasing ...

Discrete Laplace operators are ubiquitous in applications spanning geometric modeling to simulation. For robustness and efficiency, many applications require discrete operators that retain key structural properties inherent to the continuous setting. Building on the smooth setting, we present a set of natural properties for discrete Laplace operators for triangular surface meshes. We prove an i...