OBJECTIVE This is a study about emotion management among a category of healthcare professional - hospital chaplains - who have hardly been the subject of sociological research about emotions. The aim of the study was to understand how chaplains manage their work-related emotions in order to protect their mental health, whilst also providing spiritual care. METHODS Using in-depth, semi structu...

INTRODUCTION Despite progress in implementing smoke-free laws in indoor public places and workplaces, millions of Americans remain exposed to secondhand smoke at home. The nation's 80 million multiunit housing residents, including the nearly 7 million who live in subsidized or public housing, are especially susceptible to secondhand smoke infiltration between units. METHODS We calculated nati...

The current ethical-legal consensus - prohibiting assisted suicide and euthanasia, but (1) allowing patients to forgo all life-saving treatment, and (2) permitting pain relief that increases the risk of death - is a means of having it both ways. This is how we often make "tragic choices."

A fragment of linear time temporal logic (LTL) is presented. It is proved that the satisfiability problem for this fragment is NPcomplete. The fragment is larger than previously known NP-complete fragments. It is obtained by prohibiting the use of until operator and requiring to use only next operators indexed by a letter.

After surgery in the upper abdomen is performed, conditions may develop prohibiting transabdominal repair of gastroesophageal reflux. The transthoracal hiatoplasty after L. Braun does not in all cases eliminate the reflux; it cures, however, the ulcers as well as the esophagitis.