Background: Studies have shown that combining tender loving care (TLC) with the treatment of patients recurrent miscarriages can improve pregnancy outcomes. The importance TLC has long been recognised in studies on psychiatric, gerontological, and end-of-life nursing Western countries. Recently, randomised controlled trials (RCTs) used to examine improvement outcomes addition miscarriages; howe...

UNLABELLED Prevalence of tender points (TP), and widespread pain and fibromyalgia, as well as the relationship between TP and widespread pain and mobility, was examined in 585 community-dwelling older adults (mean age 78.2 years, 63.4% female). Pain was based on location (none, single site, multisite, widespread). Mobility was measured by the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB), gait spee...

The article examines the dynamics of space surrounding Shanghai’s rampant urban change as experienced by Chinese artistic duo known Birdhead. Underpinned conceptual framework “affective turn”, this study reflects upon and addresses how photographer’s chaotic photo-essay new state housing (Xincun, New Village, 2008) can function a nexus place-making. With claim to impetuous emotion in his works,...

This brief paper outlines the design and development challenges of a critical design affection game. Affection games require players to flirt, kiss, hug or make love to meet their goals. The game described, named Stolen Kisses, allows players to kiss a wider variety of individuals. The game is played by placing your lips on a mobile device and balancing long kisses with short kisses across one ...

Building conservation work generally involves complex and non-standard work different from new building construction processes. In preparing tenders for building conservation projects, therefore, the quantity surveyor must carefully consider the specificity of non-standard items and demarcate the scope of unique conservation work. While the quantity surveyor must appreciate the full range of wo...

These reports represent the provisional findings of a research project titled 'Optimising the efficacy of conservation tenders under varying degrees of heterogeneity: Achieving water quality improvements in the Burdekin Dry Tropics across different management actions in different agricultural production systems and different parts of a river basin'. The views and interpretations expressed in th...

Background Systemic amyloidosis is a rare multisystem disease caused by extracellular accumulation of fibrillar proteins, leading to loss of normal tissue architecture and function. In clinical routine myocardial affection is assessed by late gadolinium enhancement. The aim of this study was to investigate whether patients with systemic amyloidosis (AL), both with and without cardiac affection ...