It is proven that the physical measure for the two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory is purely singular with respect to the kinematical Ashtekar-Lewandowski measure. For this, an explicit decomposition of the gauge orbit space into supports of these two measures is given. Finally, the results are extended to more general (e.g. confining) theories. Such a singularity implies, in particular, that the...

background: a cross sectional study conducted to identify the organizational factors associated to the occupational stress among lecturers in selected community colleges, peninsular malaysia. methods: study was conducted by using cluster-sampling method and 189 self-administrated questionnaires were distributed. a validated malay version of job content questionnaire (jcq) was used to obtain the...

vitamin e is a potent reactive oxygen metabolites (rom) scavenger. it is a lipid-soluble vitamin and its main function is to protect polyunsaturated fatty acids against oxidative stress. twenty-five mechanically ventilated intensive care unit (icu) adult patients participated in a prospective randomized clinical trial receiving either placebo (10 patients) or 3 im doses (1000 iu each) of vitami...

BACKGROUND Due to a lack of an appropriate disease-specific patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument for chronic heart failure including its social support and treatment aspects in China, this study was performed to develop a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for patients with chronic heart failure and evaluate its reliability, validity, and feasibility. METHODS According to the standa...

BACKGROUND Internet-based interventions moderated by community nurses have the potential to improve support offered to new mothers, many of whom now make extensive use of the Internet to obtain information about infant care. However, evidence from population-based randomized controlled trials is lacking. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to test the non-inferiority of outcomes for mothers a...

This study tests the hypothesis that market value added (MVA) is more highly associated with stock return (SR) than traditional performance measures. The purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the relative and incremental information content of MVA and traditional performance measures, namely, net income (NI), net operational profit after tax (NOPAT), and earning per shares (...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the effect on mortality of stopping smoking after myocardial infarction and the psychosocial factors that influence the decision to stop. DESIGN Analysis of smokers in a large prospective study. Self completed questionnaires provided information on psychosocial factors. SETTING Coronary care units at six English hospitals participating in a multicentre clinical tr...

BACKGROUND There is increased pressure on primary care physicians to monitor oral anticoagulation. OBJECTIVE To test the null hypothesis that oral anticoagulation care can be provided at least as well in primary care through a nurse-led clinic, involving near-patient testing and computerized decision support software, compared with routine hospital management based on a variety of clinical ou...

INTRODUCTION Mounting evidence suggests that high-fidelity mannequin-based (HFMBS) and computer-based simulation are useful adjunctive educational tools for advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) instruction. We sought to determine whether access to a supplemental, online computer-based ACLS simulator would improve students' performance on a standardized Mega Code using high-fidelity mannequin ba...