John D. Statler, MD, Richard B. Towbin, MD, Joseph A. Ronsivalle, DO, Anne Oteham, RN, BSN, Donald L. Miller, MD, Clement J. Grassi, MD, Daniel B. Brown, MD, Horacio R. D’Agostino, MD, Arshad Ahmed Khan, MD, Sanjoy Kundu, MD, Anne C. Roberts, MD, Cindy Kaiser Saiter, NP, Marc S. Schwartzberg, MD, Suresh Vedantham, MD, Michael J. Wallace, MD, and John F. Cardella, MD, for the SIR Standards of Pr...

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BACKGROUND Previous studies suggested that mindfulness meditation effectively reduced stress-related anxiety and depression symptoms, but no research has evaluated the efficacy of mindfulness meditation in nurses and nursing students in China. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of brief mindfulness meditation on the anxiety and depression symptoms and autonomic nervous system activity in Chin...

Biographical databases contain diverse information about individuals. Person names, birth information, career, friends, family and special achievements are some possible items in the record for an individual. The relationships between individuals, such as kinship and friendship, provide invaluable insights about hidden communities which are not directly recorded in databases. We show that some ...